Have these pics made the rounds yet? WARNING! Graphic pics

[Nowhere Man]

Moderator note: the following links go to images of a gunshot wound to a foot that are quite graphic. If you're squeamish, you probably don't want to click on them, and if you're at the office, they're NSFW. They are, however, a fairly shocking example of what can happen to someone who fails to abide by proper safety procedures with a firearm.


Image 1 of gunshot wound to foot.

Image 2 of gunshot wound to foot.

Image 2 of gunshot wound to foot.

The email I received said he did it with a shotgun. I don't think so.......


Dave

 

[Auburn1992]

You may want to offer a warning for the graphic picture.

I've seen this already but don't think it is out there too much.

EDIT: It could have been a shotgun, possibly a slug; but not sure because a slug may have done more damage.

 

[Valkman]

Wow, I thought my hand was bad after meeting up with Mr. Table Saw!

 

[HK G3]

It wasn't a firearm that did it, it was actually these guys:

 

[BigGuy52]

I'd like to know the who, what & where that should go along with these pictures.

 

[Hk91-762mm]

Damn--That left a mark!!

 

[shdwfx]

It'll buff out.

 

[CWL]

I think I would have chosen to have the boot cut-off my foot rather than trying to save it.

 

[brassdog]

I sure hope they got medical treatment for that foot. (It looks like they didn't...tsk,tsk.) If they didn't bleed out. Then the resulting infection will more than likely cause them to lose that foot.
I sure wouldn't want to be in their shoes, that's for sure!

 

[Dr. Fresh]

I read on another forum that the guy was shooting trap and had the muzzle rested on his foot. At some point he forgot you aren't supposed to pull the trigger.

 

[Big Daddy Grim]

Tell him to walk it off it's just a flesh wound.

 

[Blue .45]

Massad Ayoob wrote about this on his blog.

THE PRICE OF CARELESSNESS
May 25th, 2009 by Mas

Think of your gun as a power tool. A remote control drill, if you will. You wouldn’t rest your chain saw with its blade in your lap even if you were sure it wasn’t turned on. What possesses people to treat more cavalierly the power tool we call a firearm?

One of my pet peeves has always been the practice common among sporting clay bird shooters to rest the shotgun with its muzzle on their shoe, with the “business end” of that power tool literally at muzzle contact with their foot. They’ll tell you, “Don’t worry, it isn’t loaded.” What’s that old saying again, about so many people being accidentally shot with empty guns?

Below, courtesy of a friend who is one of the top small arms experts living in my opinion, are some pictures of what can happen when such a practice goes wrong. I’m told the shooter was resting the shotgun’s muzzle on his foot when something (most likely an errant trigger finger) pressed the shotgun’s trigger to the rear.

This guy was lucky. The muzzle was resting in the space between the great toe and the next one. He may or may not keep the big toe. Had the gun been a couple of inches back, he might have lost the whole foot. I’m told that it was a light clay bird load of small #8 birdshot pellets.

It is the second article down:

http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/

 

[Gunnerpalace]

Ouch, that must've hurt.

 

[HammerheadSSN663]

"Hey, watch this!"

 

[CSA 357]

This little piggie went to market...................................i went to school with a boy that did that, 20 ga, he wasnt the sharpest knife in the drawer, hope he can save his toe

 

[tjj]

Here......hold my beer.

 

[Halo is for Kids]

My wife says: "That's gonna look wierd in flip-flops"

 

[Ed Ames]

Can't be true -- everyone knows birdshot is harmless.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Back in the 60s, I worked at a drive in theatre. The owner had a badly crippled hand.

Seems he was hunting with his boys when one of the boy's shotguns jammed. Dad was working the action with his hand over the muzzle. He lost most of the center of his hand.

 

[jhco]

tis but a flesh wound

 

[4Freedom]

All guns are loaded always and don't point at anything you don't plan on killing. I think that is a great rule of thumb and being a newer shooter I have to constantly memorize that and keep it in my head at all times to avoid what happened to this poor gentleman. I guess he is lucky it wasn't pointed at his face.

 

[Dirtpile]

Doesn't look like birdshot did that, but a slug is very believeable. If you look closely it appears that it was cauterized. If that's the case he got lucky and the lead stopped at the sole and sealed the wound.

 

[shdwfx]

...I think that is a great rule of thumb

It is also a great rule of toe.

 

[earplug]

People can be so stupid

After a motorcycle accident, I spent some time in the hospital with a man that had shot himself in the foot for the second time while hunting.
He was still hunting under a tree and shot his foot.
Sorry I don't recall the details from 1981.

 

[Kind of Blued]

Doesn't look like birdshot did that, but a slug is very believeable.

We're talking about a range of less than one inch. Despite what you see in the movies, shotguns don't spout shot in a cone of death which spreads immediately after exiting the muzzle.