Has anyone been shot?

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Let me start off by saying I know this is a very personal question and I
ask with the utmost sincerity. We talk about what we would do in certain
situations and how we would react, but that may very well be
different from how we can react. So I ask...

What was the situation leading to you being shot?

How did it feel (if it can be described)?

Where on your body were you hit?

What were you hit with (caliber)?

How did you react if you were able to?

What was your recovery like?

I understand if people would rather not talk about it but I believe it could be
a useful part of determining preparation for such an unfortunate event.
 
What was the situation leading to you being shot?
I was walking in a deserted lot, headed for a field of soybeans. This is in the neighborhood where I grew up as a boy. Middle afternoon, probably a weekend, late summer. This is at the edge of a residential neighborhood, and if I remember right, there was some construction on new houses nearby.
How did it feel (if it can be described)?
Actually, it didn't feel like much. There was a slight sting afterwards, but initially it just felt like something hit my leg. I was wearing shorts.
Where on your body were you hit?
Right leg, front part of the leg, not on the bone, though.
What were you hit with (caliber)?
Let's see, it must've been, .177 pellet type.

Sorry, couldn't resist. :neener:
How did you react if you were able to?
I started cussing the other kid who shot me, then after and argument I hit him.
What was your recovery like?
I think the little red mark it left went away after a day or two. The other kid had a bruise.

Have a better weekend! ;)

jmm
 
I got zapped with one of those .177 caliber pellet guns while running at a track, but I dont think that counts. Never been shot at by a real gun, at least not anything close enough for me to say "hey that was aimed at me".
 
I caught a .40 S&W ricochet in the chest at a range once (my boss shooting his new SIG 2 lanes away after work). Thankfully, it was an indoor range with no HVAC, it was cold and I was wearing a leather jacket. Bullet hit angle-iron above target, then angled concrete on roof, came back at me. Hit the jacket over the zipper (center chest, sheesh), which was 2 layers of leather and padding overlapping.

Felt like somebody punched me hard in the chest.

Thankfully the bullet was deformed and somewhat expanded, and didn't make it any farther than the jacket. Had it hit me in the eyes, I doubt the eye protection would have saved my vision. Definitely would have knocked some teeth down my throat if it hit me in the mouth.
 
i havent myself,

but i have a friend who was shot in the sternum by a .22lr rifle. he said it knocked the wind out of him/palpated his heart, the pain didnt set in for a minute. the bullet lodged in his bone. I dont know the exact story behind it, but it was an accident im pretty sure.
He went home the next day from the hospital.
He has a cool scar on his chest from it.
 
so far i have been pretty lucky and I haven't gotten an enemy marksmanship badge! But I still have at least one more tour!
 
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Ive never been shot before, but i have been stabbed (my own fault. Practicing with a sword) somehow it ended up an inch into my knee...verticly, under the skin. For a second i felt nasuea, then normal.

I recall saying "Shoot" (with and it) and running into the house to clean it up. Wasnt until i had a paper towl and some soap wett did it start hurting. And then it was just a sort of throb, not at all a sting or anything like you'd expect. Sort of like being hit in the testicles, but it was sharper and less painful. Cleaned it up, scabbed, and now i have a wierd purplish scar there.

No, i wasnt shot, but it was a decent sized wound. And im giving you entertainment. So there, nyah :neener:

*edit* Ironicly, this occured just below a spot where my knee cap hit the sharp edge of a metal pole. I recall being able to see my white bone after i wiped it up. Was cool.
 
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Friend of mine took the jacket off of a 7.62x54 to the mouth on a ricochet. Drew blood and he said it felt like someone punched him in the mouth. Healed up after a couple of days. Interestingly, he could say he was hit by sniper fire. Someone was shooting a Dragunov when this occurred.
 
Actually my brother got "shot" by a broadhead arrow when he launched it from waist height to foot height. He bled like a pig at first and needed quite a few stiches. My parents werent home at the time, so I had to run to the neighbors and get a ride to the hospital. I would daresay that being shot is probably less nasty than being arrowed.

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I picked up some shrapnel from a bouncing betty and still carry some of it with me.

I have a little scar on the palm of my right hand and a matching one on the back from a through and through. That was 9mm at pointblank (my hand was over his muzzle, pushing it away.)

I have a scar on the side of my neck, where the doc took out a little piece of #6 shot. That was the only pellet that didn't hit the leather jacket (yes, I was running away, as a matter of fact.)

I have two long scars on my right forearm from a bayonet. I wasn't shot then because I was just a little faster than he was.

I have a couple of scars hidden by my hair from rock chips. If they had been using battle rifles rather than pistols, I'd have been in more trouble.

I've been shot at and missed. I've been shot at and hit. Of the two, I don't recommend either.

Pops
 
Been shot twice, once exiting a vehicle during an operation in a third world country which shall remain nameless. I believe this was a pistol caliber round, possibly a 9mm hardball which entered on the lower right medial portion of my right thigh and exited on the opposite side. How the hell it missed the femoral artery I still can't figure, but thank God it did.

It didn't hurt, just felt like kind of an electric buzz and my leg went numb. I tried to take another step, but couldn't feel my foot, so I thought, "the bastards shot me in the foot." I looked down at my foot, saw the blood and followed it a looooong way up my leg to the nice round hole I had just acquired. I had sense enough to get to cover on the side of the road while returning fire in the general direction I believed the round to have come from. (At that point, I didn't give a crap about being sure of my target and what was behind it, I just wanted my target to keep its damn head down.) I gave myself first aid with my battle dressing by putting it over the hole I could see and cinching it up tight, but I missed the exit wound until my partner got to me and saw that I was still bleeding. He put his dressing on that one, called for a medevac, and the rest is history. That leg still gives me a twinge every once in a while. For some reason, my foot will feel like someone's holding a match to it. I dunno, doc says there must have been some nerve damage.

The second time I was on a combat patrol in another country and my squad came under fire from someone with an AK 47. I caught a ricochet in the shin of my left leg, but this time when it happened I was a little bit more mentally prepared. It wasn't such a big surprise when I did a face plant and couldn't feel my left foot anymore. My flight sergeant grabbed me by the back of my LBE and carried me like a suitcase for about 10 meters to a ditch. Never did get to shoot back at the guy but my boys are pretty sure they took him out with concentrated fire from the squad's M-203 gunners. That leg is still pretty messed up, with vascular damage. I'll probably have to have surgery later on when I get older.

All in all, I was pretty lucky, but it's not an experience I would recommend. +1 on the being shot at and missed, too. Not my idea of a good time.
 
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Some folks would prefer not to recall the experience, perhaps because they don't want to be reminded of their poor judgement. Have a few pieces of #4 still in my back from hunting with an idiot cousin. Hurts bad, does not incapacitate. about 40 yards through thick clothing. Was able to beat said cousin to a bloody pulp immediatly afterwards. I still have his shotgun:cuss:

Sometimes you don't want to talk about it because you got shot through your own stupidity. Piece of buckshot in the thigh at 25 yards does not incapacitate and also hurts like hell. Always shoot the other guy from ambush and do not give them a sporting chance, very stupid. Do not wear wool pants when being shot, stray threads carry infectious material into the wound and work their way out later.

9mm ball through the buttocks does not incapacitate, hurts like hell, and is very embarassing evidence that you do not take cover well.:eek:

22 under the wishbone does not incapacitate if it does not hit vitals. Do not trust criminals to obey. very stupid. Easily digested I guess, it didn't show on the last xray.;)

Cast iron pot leg or other scrap metal fired from muzzle loading jezail into the upper arm. Does not incapacitate but does make the arm unusable, hurts like hell. Someone else, not me thankfully, failed to heed the warning about ill tempered natives who do not care for stray caucasians in their territory. Beware even the 14 year olds are armed.:neener:


10" knife through the abdomen hurts like hell, does not incapacitate either. Only have to stay in the hospital if it punctures a bowel. Grandma, do not pry that drawer divider out with a butcher knife someone might get hurt!


Sam

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Noone forced you to read it, or post on it, and yet you did both. IMHO that takes away every right you have to complain about it.
 
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sacp81170a said:
My flight sergeant grabbed me by the back of my LBE and carried me like a suitcase for about 10 meters to a ditch.
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sacp81170a, I don't mean to make light of your experience, but the mental image of this made me laugh and laugh. :) Glad you made it, AR isn't the same without grizzled veterans. Keep safe.

jmm, AR expatriate
 
Caught a ricochet at an outdoor civilian range when some idiots next
to me were doing their pistol speed shooting with fmjs on steel plates
set too far forward of the backstop. I was wearing an M65 jacket with
liner and I only got welted hard on the left side. I told them to knock it
off and that I had just been hit with their ricochet. "Oh, sorry, we'll switch
to cast lead" and they just continued shooting. When those ran out, they
just went back to their fmj's. I heard the rounds start bouncing against
the covered range line roof and just said screw it and left. There was no
range master. I've been shot at other times, on purpose, but those
were all misses. I try to avoid convoys in hostile areas and going to
public ranges when other people are present.....

SACP, count your blessings and hope you're not back for OIF13.
 
As i've posted in other threads, once at a pinshoot i caught a ricochet coming back off the somewhat-too-heavily-used-pins to the right arm. Only penetrated about 1/3 an inch. I don't really remember any pain, just that it kinda burned.
Doesn't really count though, as I haven't really been shot. Still pretty freaky when the guy with the timer just kinda went "Uh...." and pointed at my arm. I hadn't even really noticed until then, since i was concentrating on the pins.
 
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