mptrimshop
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call me crazy but i can't beleave how many of you have been shot....... i would have expected 4-5...but damn. I think i might be in the wrong sport...sounds like it's bound to happen if you shot long enuf.
Has anyone here suffered a gunshot wound?
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bkjeffrey
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9mil through the knee took out the popliteal artery. Lost almost 4 quarts of blood from the entrance and exit wounds. Surgeons had to remove about 4 inches of saphenous vein from my upper thigh to graft into the artery behind my knee. The swelling in my calf was so bad the doc had to slice my claf down both sides to relieve swelling. Ive got about 134 staples in there right now. The inside of my left leg is stapled from my nuts to my ankle and the outside is stapled from my knee to my foot. All this because of a neglegent discharge. Lesson Learned......Never assume a weapon is not loaded!
Cpt. America
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Former Army and current LEO. Call me catious but I don't F--- around with guns. And some of these, could have been avoided.
Backpacker33
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Gunshot wounds
Shot in the head by an eight-yr-old, with a .22 rifle. He told the cops he just wanted to see what would happen. Bled a lot, hurt real bad. Cracked the bone just above my right temple, left me batty for a bit. All the blood scared crap out of every one who saw.
Second time, 28-yr-old miscreant with a Glock 17 and Federal Hydra Shok. Penetrated my overcoat, suit, body armor, my rib cage 4 inches below the nipple and slightly posterior. Bled a lot, hurt real bad. Other team members ventillated perp with .223, said he was dead before I hit the ground. I was, unfortunately, conscious if notably disoriented.
Surgery made a small hole bigger. Lived with tubes sticking out for a while. Internal organs, especially liver and right lung, were terribly upset, took months to forgive me. A bout with sempticemia was most entertaining; for a few days, Medical personnel approached only while wearing protective clothing and face sheilds. Complete recovery took just over a year.
Like others who posted about Vietnam, I was distressingly close by when the highly respected NVA artillery used my position to zero their guns. Took shrapnel through both legs, left worse. Didn't feel a thing at the time: The concussion and subsequent earth evacuation left me significantly "relaxed." Follwed by loverly chopper ride to Danang. Remember the nurses in the TV show "China Beach?" Mine all had five-o'clock shadow but I loved every one of them. Still treasure the pic of me with IV, stylish compression bandages on left leg, wheelchair, Army male nurses grinning over my shoulders. A banged up USAF pilot was a novelty for them.
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Shot in the head by an eight-yr-old, with a .22 rifle. He told the cops he just wanted to see what would happen. Bled a lot, hurt real bad. Cracked the bone just above my right temple, left me batty for a bit. All the blood scared crap out of every one who saw.
Second time, 28-yr-old miscreant with a Glock 17 and Federal Hydra Shok. Penetrated my overcoat, suit, body armor, my rib cage 4 inches below the nipple and slightly posterior. Bled a lot, hurt real bad. Other team members ventillated perp with .223, said he was dead before I hit the ground. I was, unfortunately, conscious if notably disoriented.
Surgery made a small hole bigger. Lived with tubes sticking out for a while. Internal organs, especially liver and right lung, were terribly upset, took months to forgive me. A bout with sempticemia was most entertaining; for a few days, Medical personnel approached only while wearing protective clothing and face sheilds. Complete recovery took just over a year.
Like others who posted about Vietnam, I was distressingly close by when the highly respected NVA artillery used my position to zero their guns. Took shrapnel through both legs, left worse. Didn't feel a thing at the time: The concussion and subsequent earth evacuation left me significantly "relaxed." Follwed by loverly chopper ride to Danang. Remember the nurses in the TV show "China Beach?" Mine all had five-o'clock shadow but I loved every one of them. Still treasure the pic of me with IV, stylish compression bandages on left leg, wheelchair, Army male nurses grinning over my shoulders. A banged up USAF pilot was a novelty for them.
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Elm Creek Smith
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Never shot. I have almost lost my left thumb to knife wounds. The big cut in the web between my thumb and index finger just felt like someone hit me there with a stick. The deep one over the knuckle of my thumb just below the thumbnail slid along the bone on the inside and came out on the palm side joint just above the meaty part of my thumb. That one burned like hell. Seeing the bone didn't help either. A controlled pair of .357 Magnums from a 3 inch Model 65 stopped further damage to my hand.
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Fleetman
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I haven't been shot but shot a friend of mine once....
I shot a lot of skeet in my younger days and reloaded for my 870 20 ga. A friend of mine was coming over that day and, as usual, I was reloading. I spied my dad's paperpunch and noticed it was chock full of little paper chads. Yup, you guessed it, before I knew it I was loading up a shell with chads instead of shot....packed it pretty tight too. I thought it would be pretty funny to blow a load of chads over my friend.
When my friend was coming down the steps to my bedroom I pulled the trigger....you can't begin to imagine my feelings when he was hit dead center chest and went down. Luckily, his sweatshirt and coat absorbed most of the impact and, while badly bruised, lived to thoroughly smack me around. The "shot" column never opened up and he was hit with a plastic wad full of compressed paper chads.
A fourteen year old with no parents home, pound of Unique, paper chads, a little bit of boredom, and a badly underestimated understanding of shotguns power almost resulted in a disaster. Lesson learned!!
I shot a lot of skeet in my younger days and reloaded for my 870 20 ga. A friend of mine was coming over that day and, as usual, I was reloading. I spied my dad's paperpunch and noticed it was chock full of little paper chads. Yup, you guessed it, before I knew it I was loading up a shell with chads instead of shot....packed it pretty tight too. I thought it would be pretty funny to blow a load of chads over my friend.
When my friend was coming down the steps to my bedroom I pulled the trigger....you can't begin to imagine my feelings when he was hit dead center chest and went down. Luckily, his sweatshirt and coat absorbed most of the impact and, while badly bruised, lived to thoroughly smack me around. The "shot" column never opened up and he was hit with a plastic wad full of compressed paper chads.
A fourteen year old with no parents home, pound of Unique, paper chads, a little bit of boredom, and a badly underestimated understanding of shotguns power almost resulted in a disaster. Lesson learned!!
gordy
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Had a bounce back with a 7.62x39, hit me in the shoulder just above the coller bone. My brother was shooting at a fridge at about 100 ft. and the darn thing came back and bit me. hurt like you can't beleave. can't and don't to know what it would be like to not have the bounce back inbetween.
I made my brother take picures but they are on film.( 20 years ago.)
I made my brother take picures but they are on film.( 20 years ago.)
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