Have you ever been shot?

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Glad you guys are ok.
Thanks God never, few splashes at steel matches but nothing serious, seen plenty.
Mostly brought by ER rescue to the Trauma centers were I did-do work over the years.
Seen on head, necks, limbs, torso, abdomen, butts,with provably several calibers/slugs some survive some don't.
Direct hits or bouncing in walls or floor give gave me and the MD the challenge to find the paths of penetration and internal damage before going to OR.
Gave me experience to affirm there is not perfect round, not perfect shooter.
Placement is a big number on the equation, rounds delivered, distance, BMI of the victim and how the target dressed (layers.)
I have seen small calibers producing a horrendous internal damage or a perfect shot to a running gambler to his butt going through the pelvic foramina with not other damage than stitches back and front .
Hope you, JeffBuurgess and Entropy have prompt recovery.
 
Twice by ricochet, one was 7.62x39 one was .22lr. Both where while deployed. Neither hurt/burned like when that Blackhawk let loose with a .30cal above me and that hot brass went right down my back.
 
Never been hit but my little brother hung an old hubcap on a tree branch an proceeded to pound away at it while I was in the woods directly in line with it. Bullets hissing by is a sound you don't soon forget.
 
Right after my wife and I got together 25 years ago I introduced her my S&W 28 loaded with lead RN 38s. My son was 10 at the time and was into shooting as well.

I had a P17 30-06 I’d bee shooting into an old army helmet and told my wife to shoot at it. She shot and missed and shot again. The bullet hit the helmet and bounced back hitting my son who was about 20 ft behind us. It hit him just above the navel and shouted “I’ve been hit” and went face down in the dirt. Fortunately it didn’t break the skin but left a huge purple bruise.

My son said he saw it coming and walked over and picked it up off the ground. I wound up embeding it in an acrylic clock as a paper weight.

He told all his friends his step mom shot him in the stomach. Couldn’t say that now.

I used to shoot IPSC and shot indoor matches. We shot steel poppers and plated and on several occasions the jacket from my 38 super loads separated when it hit the steel and came back hitting my hand. Boy does that burn and bleed!
 
I've been "shot at" but never been hit. There is no greater buzz in the Universe than being shot at and missed.
 
Riding a motorcycle over 100 MPH comes pretty close. Hanging in the harness upside down in a biplane performing aerobatics with the wind in your face also comes pretty close. Especially if you're not wearing a parachute and you can see the wing struts and cables flexing like crazy. You know that sound they dubbed into all of the old movies where the plane makes this God awful whistling shrieking sound in a dive? I was amazed to find that biplanes really do make that sound in a dive........ Old Dog - please scratch your dog's head for me. He is beautiful.
 
Working a live fire shoot house, the hosting agency said their bullet traps were good to go with 5.56 ball. They lied. I took a chunk of jacket and core to my right cheek, along with a couple pieces into my eye protection directly in line with my eyeball from another officers round. Bled all over the place, and my carrier is still slightly discolored in patches from it. Got all the jacket pieces out, the lead went deeper and I've still got a piece in there along my cheekbone. Oakley was nice enough to send me a replacement lens for free, I have the old one at my desk at work. Been shot at a few times at work, fortunately none of those have connected.
 
Guy was messing w some reflex sight on an H&K machine gun at indoor range.
Wanged one off the target holder close and it came back and whacked my ****.
I knew him and rubbed the welt and gave him some crap.
He said "shut up, you're the only person I've ever shot that's lived" LOL

Got nailed by some dipstick shooting at a sparrow hawk crossing the dove line at a F&W area. Low angle, right back up the line.
Buddy between us, over his head.........nailed me next position down. Branch deflected most.
Had some bleeders/welts.........was 6 shot, rules mandated nothing larger than 7.5.
I was livid, did not have shooting glasses on and took several to face.
Lucky I was

And lucky he was. As that stupid SOB about got a 20 ga shoved up his arse.
Dude that did it was from my town, worked same factory.
He was there with his young son and his dad. They all blew me crap.

He shot at (and hit) the sparrow hawk (back end, it glided to other side of field and crashed)..
Would have seriously hurt/killed my buddy (since he was closer), but only welted me up.
And said he didn't hit me................like I was bleeding from something I did.

I reported him to the DNR folks, doubt they did anything.
Never saw that SOB up there again though.
 
I've been hit by .22lr and 12ga #8 shot ricochets more times than I care to admit. One time it was my fault but the vast majority of times it was because of idiot friends.
 
Been shot at and missed twice.

Buddy shot me in the keg with birdshot when a rabbit broke cover between us. swept my leg from under me and i went down. had layers and brush pants on sp no penetration. just bruises.

at the range shooting steel. i am a magnet. seems like i get pelted quite often while my partners never get hit. they think i am full of it.

had a rifle round hit a tree about 10 ft above me while deer hunting.

shot in the face with a bb gun when it bounced back.

buddy hit me in the chest with a nut shot from a wrist rocket during a sling shot "war" when we were kids. hurt like hell.

got hit in the leg with a 22 when same buddy threw 22 shells in a camp fire without telling anybody. stuck on my shin. pulled it out.
been plotting revenge on that bastard for 40 years. :)

i am a projectile magnet. if was in the d day invasion i probably would have been hit before i got on the boat in england.
 
My doctor strongly recommends against it.

There have been some close calls, though. I've caught a couple frightening ricochets as a young'in shooting a bb gun without a suitable backstop. Pellets can make Hollywood perfect ricochet sounds, but steel bb's don't deform and you'd be lucky to hear the "whap!" of impact. You don't always realize the bb bounces until it bounces off your eyebrow.

On one hunting trip on the first day of dove season, some of my buddies got peppered by other hunters. I don't know how I didn't get hit.

On another occasion, we were driving out somewhere to do some shooting in the desert. Off one exit, we could see some cars a ways off and hear some shooting. We'd been driving a while, so we just took the next one.

Thing is, they weren't shooting into a backstop. We heard a few bullets whiz by before we figured out what it was, and sprinted back to the truck.
 
Been hit by BB's, my brother. Hit by bird shot many times on first day of hunting season. Been shot at and missed by a 30-06 , trespasser. Had bullets whizzing by me from a 9mm I think , someone target shooting . Been lucky nothing ever stayed with or went through me.
 
I was walking through a cornfield trying to stir up some pheasants when I hear the corn around me getting smacked. Looked down in time for the bill of my hat to shield my eyes from the pheasant shot that peppered my head and upper torso. Didn't bleed over it, just kind of stung. I was more wary of where the other hunters were after that haha
 
Generally, when something life threatening happens to us, we try and avoid it. But here we have many cases of just that happening, and we continue to do the same thing. Are we nuts, or what? lol

I’ve been hit with rebounds off backstops many times, but no perforation. Only breaking of the skin involved a BB in a fingertip, self inflicted. Just trying to see what the gas blast from a CO2 pistol felt like from an empty gun, oops, it wasn’t empty. Oh, I can see the BB inside through my fingernail, wow, that really hurts! Now dig it out and make sure my parents don’t find out about the pistol.

Took weeks before I could place my hand down on a hard surface without pain.
 
Back when we were kids my older brother shot me several times with his BB gun as I was running away. After the butt whipping our Mom gave him, I think he hurt more.
I have had a lot of close calls. One was the time the 5 Ton I was in was racked by machine gun fire. Just lucky that the gunner's aim was low and there were packs strapped along the outside of the bed. And thing God for the extra steel plate that Motor-T added to the truck beds.
 
While riding my motorcycle off the base in Puerto Rico in the late 60's, I saw puffs of white smoke about 300 yards to my left behind the fence.

Later I found out I was the last person off the base that weekend. The FLAN (a group of radicals) decided to pop a few people on the base to make a point.

Just glad they were lousy shots and didn't know how to lead a target.
 
No...and I would like to keep it that way.
I have been hit with a few fragments that richocheted back to the firing line from swinging steel plates at the 25yd line.
Been peppered with shotgun pellets a couple of times when hunting pheasants...no idea who fired them.
Had a bullet hit in front of my order brother and I while groundhog hunting about 50 years ago. We we're sitting inside a tree line watching a field that had a bunch of groundhog burrows...somebody fired a shot from the other end of the field and it hit about a foot in front of us. Never saw the guy that fired the shot.
 
Never shot. Not in any hurry to try it either. I've had friends shot and been at gunpoint 4 times...shot at twice. Good times.
 
My brother and I were squirrel hunting with our BB guns and very young at the time. He got excited and cranked off a round with an old Daisy spring loaded red rider BB gun from the late 1950's right into my side. I had on a thick winter coat but it still hurt like the devil. I wanted to bust him back but my grandpa said no, it was an accident. I have had a Glock 29 kaboom on me and cut my hand up.

My son is with a university police department and they were qualifying at the range used by that counties sheriff department. He was up to qualify with his Glock 22 and fired the first round on target and a piece of that round ricocheted back and hit the knuckle on his trigger finger still on the trigger getting ready to fire his next round. It was cut and bleeding and he stopped and they slapped a piece of bandage on it to clean it, then some neosporen and a band-aid. He then went back to the line and qualified quickly. The year before, same range and qualification time and another officer fired a round on target and it flew back and hit him above the eye requiring a couple of stitches. I strongly suggested to my son they consider qualifying somewhere else as that ranges backstop has issues.
 
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