Has anyone been shot?

[Working Man]

Wow.... I didn't expect to see this thread again. I'd like to give a big thanks
to everyone who answered, it dispelled a few myths for me.

Flashman, I do a lot of .45-70 shooting. When I read:

.45-70 Govt 405gr factory loaded copper jacketed flat point

It made my whole body lock for a sec. Glad you're ok and I'm glad everyone
here made it through their situation.

 

[another okie]

Shot twice with birdshot, both were quail hunting accidents. Still have some shot in me from one of them, which was in the shoulder and didn't hurt all that much. The shot penetrated deeply on that one and caused some damage I still feel on occasion. The other was less serious, but was in the face. I bled like a stuck pig and it hurt badly, but the shot barely penetrated the skin. Had a police bullet buzz by me one time in Tulsa, but it was a good shot and the guy it hit is not around to tell his story.

 

[Jim March]

Never been shot.

One comment though: there was reference earlier to a canteen being "blown up". Regardless of the shell material, if it was full of water and hit by even a medium-grade rifle round like the 7.62x39, wouldn't the water pressure from the inside tend to shred it?

In the case of a plastic canteen, the plastic bits (and water) wouldn't have a lot of energy to them and I can see how they might not cause damage to the wearer even if the canteen "vaporized".

 

[Captain America]

I got a flesh wound from an AK type 7.62. I just felt like a paintball hit me, for lack of a better description. And it felt really warm. Wierd.

 

[David904]

I took a .40 ricochet just to the left side of my adam's apple.
No penetration (Thank God.)
It felt like what I imagine someone hitting me there with a ball peen hammer might feel like. I can still remembering that whispery, fluttery, whirring sound as the round came flying at me.

When I got hit, I honestly thought I was dead. I clapped my hand over the point of impact and dropped straight down to my knees like someone just cut the strings on a puppet. After a couple of seconds, I was brave enough to look for blood - and finding none, I probed around a bit only to find a VERY sore area on my throat.

I had a nice bruise on my neck for quite a few days after that.
Coulda been worse. Coulda been better.

 

[Mortech]

Twice in the same leg , several years apart . Never noticed each time until someone brought to my attention I was bleeding . Never felt a thing until a couple days later when it started to really heal and then the pain started . The first was a 38 Spl graze fron to rear on my left leg bled like heck , I was in Chicago visiting with a college friend's parents . Some junkie just started shooting . Second time was in Germany at a range , someone's P38 had a safety failure and the 9 MM round went through my left leg AGAIN going right to left about an inch above my knee . That one really hurt when it started to heal .

 

[steveracer]

I thought I got shot once.

The rear sight vial from my SA Champion came loose and lodged in my face. I had to pull it out with needle nose pliers. I thought the guy in another lane with a .22 shot me. I was pissed, but figured out pretty quick that he wouldn't be shooting at me with a .22, when he had two FALs over there.

 

[evan price]

Well, not shot, but:

When I was a kid about age ten or so my friends and I were playing with lawn darts. You remember the things that got banned? They were shaped like regular darts but a lot bigger, they had pointed tips about 4-5" long and maybe 3/16" diameter?
Well the guys' house we were playing with them at, his dad was a mechanic and had a bench grinder in the garage, and we thought it would be fun to throw the darts at a piece of plywood in the back yard that was part of an old doghouse. We painted a target on it but the lawn darts were too dull to penetrate the wood and stick so we sharpened them on the bench grinder.
We were throwing them at the target one at a time from maybe 5 meters away taking turns like a darts game, the kid who lived there threw his last dart and walked over to the target crossing in front of me without waiting right as I threw my last dart (we didn't exactly have good range discipline back then did we?). The dart skipped off his shoulder without any damage, but he got mad and pulled a dart out of the plywood and threw it at me and it stuck dead center in the meaty part of my thigh about halfway between my knee and groin, sunk in all the way to the head!

Felt the pressure of it hitting, but no pain or anything, he looked at me, I thought he had missed, he screamed and ran in the house, his brother started laughing, then we both looked down and saw it, and I started feeling it, and thinking, "Oh sh**, we're gonna get in trouble now!" and my leg got all wobbly.
His dad came running out, saw what had happened, put ice on my thigh, pulled the dart out, and it hurt like hell coming out like he was pulling it out sideways which surprised me at the time. I got sent home, my friend got a whipping and sent to bed, and the lawn darts got broken in half and put in the trash.

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

Went catfishing one day and caught a loggerhead turtle and being a 17 yr old cockstrong lad I held that turtle off to the side while walking out of a pasture. Before you know it My arm sagged down and Mr. Turtle thought it wise to snap at my britches to which p**sed me off. Set him against the base of a tree and shot him through the head with a 22lr, went through his head, hit the tree, recocheted and hit me in the neck. I picked up the bullet which subsequently turned flat from all of the abuse and counted my lucky stars. Stung to the high heavens and left a good welt, no penetration.

 

[FIRE COP]

YES>>>

so now on to your voyeuristic...psychologically boring question..yes is the answer. Try it you may like it..

 

[AaronE]

in chronological order....

1)Once was where I wasnt supposed to be, doing something I shouldnt have been doing and collected a back, buttocks and legs full of rocksalt, DONT recommend it. washed it out in the shower with warm water...that hurt worse than the getting of it, bits of cotton T-shirt and shorts didnt help the cleanliness at all. GF dug a lot of that out of me.

2) Hunting in Olympics, couple of yahoos "heard something in the brush" and started shooting at it, I was grazed in on the inside of the left arm and ribcage before I could get behind a down log. Later met up with them at the foreman's office at work, we all worked for the same logging company. They were talking about sitting in the borrow-pit above where I was on the same day and getting some "sound shots off" right after lunch, when i was passing below the borrow-pit. I almost got fired for what I did to the shooter....Foreman only gave me 3 days off without pay...and told the shooter that he was lucky that it occured within sight of the foreman where he HAD to do something because if not he would have ignored it. Shooter lost his job not too much later over a small issue.

3) Was shooting pins at the local range when the fellow to my left cleaned off the table,at which time I SAW the bullet approaching in that "slow-motion" phase and watched it hit my chest square on the steurnum, the bullet penetrated my shirt and broke the skin and STUCK THERE half buried in my chest. It didnt hurt too much at the time...but later I had a saucer sized bruise and THAT smarted for a week or more and it hurt to take a deep breath.

So nothing too terrible, I've done worse to myself with a chainsaw in a logging misshap. Still cannot recommend being on the recieving end of things.

Thanks to all who DID take real hostile fire for our country.

AAron

 

[El Barto]

Hey Evan

Igot two sets of Lawn Darts that I just bought! Harder to get then 7.62x39.

I took them to the local park once to try out and boy you should have seen the kids come running. Everyone wanted to play but I thought it was a wise time to leave. What is it that when there is something that is potentially dangerous, kids just flock?

Back on topic: My brother shot our brother in-law with a .38 from about 15 ft. I wasn't there, but I was told that it was very hard to see the entrance wound and it didn’t incapacitate the BIL. It did however make him rethink his intended course of action. He still has the bullet lodged “close to his spine”; a handy excuse for him not working.

 

[Aggie's Revenge]

I have never been shot. I did catch a partial backblast from an AT-4 during a live fire exercise. Had a couple of nice chunks of plastic jammed up in my arm and chin but nothing really to write home about. The worst part was the overpressure. It felt like someone did got a running start and kicked me square in the nose.

 

[Duach Laidir]

I'm now 72 years young but I remember vividly the first time I got shot at and hit. It was 62 years ago and the memory has never dimmed.

I was walking in the local railway repair yards, a wonderland that us kids were forbidden to enter. There were old cars from the late 1800s and even a stack of the construction 4 wheel side tippers that dated from 1855 when the first line in NSW was built.

Anyway I had got beyond these wonders and into the scrubland between the yards and the main line when I felt a burning sensation in my neck.
I thought that I'd been stung by a bee or a wasp later in life I was stung by a Black paper wasp and the wasp was worse).
Mainly I remember the numbness and the blood, that was when I realised that it was more serious than a wasp sting, and I headed for home, which was about half a mile away.
I remember that I didn't cry 'till I saw my mother.
She, ever practical, arranged for a neighbour to drive me to hospital.

I'd been hit by a .22 and it entered about 2 inches left of my spine and exited 'lower angle of the left jaw', it left a mark along the skin under my jaw and we were told that it had touched the jugular vein.
I was a very lucky boy. A fortnight in hospital and then back to school; something of a nine day wonder.

No one was ever charged over the incident although we had our suspicions.

One amusing spin off of the shooting was that when I joined the army and was asked about marks and scars I pointed out my gunshot wound.
Six years later when I was discharged I got my Honourable Discharge Certificate and there under the notation of my Active Service in Korea, it says
Marks and Scars : Circular gunshot wound; lower angle of the left jaw.

It looks good but I always tell the truth about it.

Duach.

 

[dfaugh]

Yes, with a .25 auto, in the right shoulder blade at almost point blank range, gun jammed after 1st shot...He shoulda used a bigger gun...After I was through with him...Well, they said he MIGHT walk again SOMEDAY...but his face will never look the same again.

 

[Working Man]

so now on to your voyeuristic...psychologically boring question..yes is the answer. Try it you may like it..

Wow, FIRE COP, thanks for the insight.

 

[Tokugawa]

.45 fmj, riccochet to center of forehead. Shooting at a gravel pit, bullet must have gone 50yards and back. No penetration. ouch!
Arrow to side of neck. Friends kid brother shot me deliberately with a kids bow with target points. No penetration .ouch!