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Have you ever been shot?
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CoalCrackerAl
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Shot my index finger. I was shooting a milk jug in half with my 22 pistol. It was down to a sliver of plastic. I put my hand out to support the pistol. And had my finger in front if the barrel. I felt a thump. My son said your fingers bleeding stop shooting. It cut a grove though my finger. It's grown back to normal since.
JJFitch
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One very long and very cold morning rabbit hunting, I pulled the mag out from my ruger 10/22 as I was unloading it so we could walk home. I dropped the magazine on a rock and a round went off, me and my buddy said what are the chances of that happening. We walked home, about 1/2 mile we each went home to warm up.
As I got home mom said you better take a hot shower after being out all morning to warm up.
Side note a few years before I had a bad bike accident, one Injury was a 12" gash to the bone in my left leg. Even now I have very little feeling in that area just above my kneecap .
So I'm in the bathroom getting undressed, right boot off no problem left about 2" full of blood. Kinda freaked out were it was coming from, I had black jeans on so the blood was not seen on the pants. Pull them down and see a small hole just above my knee on the right side. The bullet was about a inch under the skin.
I had thought it was brass, but it was the bullet. A few more inches and that could have hit the boys from that angle of not my artery. I couldn't believe I felt nothing, I figured since I have little feeling there and my legs were cold is why I felt nothing.
How can that happen when many tests prove that a bullet will not leave a cartridge as you describe with enough energy to pierce common cardboard?
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JJFitch
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When shot at I it just really pissed me off! My first thought was "Why is this guy shooting at me? He doesn't know me!" It really increased my resolve to take the guy out. A complicated scenario with a comedic aspect that dosen't belong here!
troy fairweather
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My only guess is the way the ruger mag holds the round it was able to build some pressure to get the bullet moving. I'd think it was only going a few hundred fps when it hit me. We never found the brass case so it probably blew apart.
Bazoo
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Thank you to those that have served for our freedoms, both military and police.
I've been hit by birdshot ricochet.
I've been hit by birdshot ricochet.
tommy.duncan
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I am sorry to all of our heroes (military and police) who joined and served or someone who had family member who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
I definitely didn't mean to be offensive!!
shootstraight57
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Been shot at as a LEO but never hit by a bad guy! Was hunting rabbits once when I was younger at a State Park in Jersey. Was walking on the side of some heavy brush when another hunter on the other side ahead of me shot at a rabbit and hit me in the leg. If it wasn't for my chap pants I would have been severely hurt!
AndyUSMC1107
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Yup! Otherwise NO COMMENT...
Kevin Rohrer
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Sort of. When working the rifle pits in the Army, was struck by numerous 5.56 spent rounds that ricocheted off the back walls. They stung, but nothing worse than that.
I have shot many loaded rounds of ammo in a game we used to play, where we took a scoped rifle, in 22 short, and shot the primer out of loaded ammo from 15 yards or so.... yea, we were stupid, but had safety stuff on. The purpose was to prove that point you make. I have seen numerous times, and the bullet tends to stay within a few inches of where it started. Brass not so much.
That said, I can believe that story because the 10/22 has a steel feedway in their magazines, and a very strong magazine in general. Its not too hard to believe the primer lit, the case exploded, the tiny square magazine acted as a chamber, with as many as 9 additional charges, and the steel feedway acted as a barrel. The bullet only penetrated a little in his story, so I can believe it, because the unique layout of the mag for a 10/22
Hugger-4641
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Shot at a few times, only hit twice. Once was birdshot from a nearby and careless friend. Only a few pellets made it through my clothes. Once was .22lr from the idiot drunk father of a friend. He thought his son and I were trying to steal some rabbits from cages in the back yard. We were about 15yrs old and the friend had been at my house the night before and we were returning to his house after dark and he was showing me the new rabbits. Idiot dad just stepped out the back door and started shooting. Friend and I ducked behind a big Oak tree and I took a round in the left calf. His wife took a tea kettle to his head, took the pistol away and smashed it with a sledge hammer. My wound was just a shallow pass through, so we never reported it to LE, almost can't find the scar now.
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Shot myself between the eyes with a pellet rifle. RWS claimed a 1,000 fps from their gun. Had a target pinned to an old piece of 1/2" plywood about fifty ft away. First ever shot right into the black. Then it bounced backed and hit me between the eyes. Sure was glad I was wearing shooting glasses!
My next target used a cardboard backer.
My next target used a cardboard backer.
snowman357
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From the thread title it is obvious what is going to be discussed inside, if it would bother some people they should not click on it. Reading about others accidents and close calls may serve to wake up people so it may keep it from happening to them or others. I prefer to learn from others mistakes, a lot less painful that way.
WestKentucky
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No, but only by luck. I have told the story on here numerous times. Henry 22, squirrel hunting, got a shot but squirrel moved. Lowered gun and went to thumb down the hammer, thumb slipped and gun went off. Shot through the boot. Went between big toe and it’s neighbor. It burnt me but I didnt really “get shot”
I have several friends who have. Dropped guns, holstering, crime...
I have several friends who have. Dropped guns, holstering, crime...
Virginia Jim
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Had my car shot while escaping an over protective father. Teenage boys sometimes think with the wrong head.
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nettlle
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I apologize to any vets that I may have offended. I meant no disrespect. Being around guns all my life to me is like a carpenter around hammers. My thumb got thumped by the hammer. I do not mean to trivialize anyone's opinion here.
marksman13
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Never been shot, but I have had a Browning Buckmark pistol blow up In my hand and lodge a piece of brass in the bone of the first knuckle in my trigger finger. Required surgery to remove it. Probably would have left it in there had it not rendered the knuckle immobile.
marksman13
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We’ve all got bad memories. I didn’t take offense to the post. People are curious by nature. I didn’t feel like this post was focused on combat wounded veterans. Lots of people get shot outside of military and police service, mostly by accident.
Deus Machina
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It's a story I don't relish revisiting, but I've mostly dealt with the trauma.
A neighbor's bipolar ex-girlfriend tried. She failed. Everyone else walked away, she did not, and no one involved was shot.
Despite a little PTSD, I'll take that.
A neighbor's bipolar ex-girlfriend tried. She failed. Everyone else walked away, she did not, and no one involved was shot.
Despite a little PTSD, I'll take that.
DustyGmt
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Yep, right in my sternum, dead center, point blank. I believe the .177 cal pellet is still in me for all I know. It was trucking at around 800-900fps. The result of a "friend" who thought it would be funny to hit me with air while asleep on the couch....it was loaded.
I guess I'm glad he didn't think it would be funny to do the same thing with the .410 or .22lr that was sitting next to the pellet rifle.
I guess I'm glad he didn't think it would be funny to do the same thing with the .410 or .22lr that was sitting next to the pellet rifle.
RougeLeader1
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I have, yes.
I took three ricochets of 308 across the knee and one in the chest. Glancing blows thankfully for the knee shots, and the chest shot was hampered by my coat, but still not fun.
I was at a friend's personal pistol range in Colebrook and one of his other invitees decided to take out a M1A, without asking if rifle was OK to shoot, and open fire on the soft steel targets roughly 30 feet away from behind the established firing line without declaring he was loading/firing.
Just a reminder to anyone who sees this, please do not do anything this moron did. If you do, you are also a moron and have no business firing a BB gun until you mature.
I took three ricochets of 308 across the knee and one in the chest. Glancing blows thankfully for the knee shots, and the chest shot was hampered by my coat, but still not fun.
I was at a friend's personal pistol range in Colebrook and one of his other invitees decided to take out a M1A, without asking if rifle was OK to shoot, and open fire on the soft steel targets roughly 30 feet away from behind the established firing line without declaring he was loading/firing.
Just a reminder to anyone who sees this, please do not do anything this moron did. If you do, you are also a moron and have no business firing a BB gun until you mature.
shoobe01
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Since others did BB guns, and I have police and hospitals, I'll do mine as much as I know it's Just a BB Gun:
On my tenth birthday I was out with the Cub Scout Troop for an overnight camping event. Everyone else (my parents were default anti-gun, so I didn’t own one) brought a BB or pellet gun. This was a terrible idea as none of the adults had the first clue so didn’t well manage the use of the guns.
So, we’re walking down a trail mid-morning and thwack-shock. The idiot kid behind me tripped over a rock and shot me with his BB gun. I promise, round steel shot .177 caliber, not any snazzier pellet gun. He was carrying it loaded, cocked, safety off (on purpose!), finger on the trigger, and no particular muzzle discipline. Then the actual does-this-ever-really-happen trope where he tripped, tensed up everything, and shot me.
In the ass. Which saved me as it turns out.
Immediate pain, meh. More like horribly stiff and discomfort when moving. Not searing pain but enough to tell you to stop doing that. Not much blood. I hobble to camp, alternate sitting and standing while it takes way too long to pack the camp (yeah, my dad didn’t just take me to the hospital, the whole camp was packed and we all left!)
Hours after getting shot, we get to North Kansas City Hospital. The part that makes the story really worth telling is that my Dad was the (non-sworn) head of PR for KC PD for years, and had left (well, been forced out when there was a housecleaning after McNamara left) just weeks before. And on call at NKC? The KCMO Police Surgeon, who he had worked with on many occasions before. He loved that, liked to say he got to stand over another shooting victim with him.
So friendly and competent doctor, we get the straight scoop instead of all coddled with euphamisms. He pokes at me, they X-ray and find the BB is hard against my pelvis. This is probably some of the deep pain, and the reason for no sharp pain: not much surface damage, but it thwacked the bone.
Since it is so deep, because there’s no damage and no problem with it where it is, he decides to leave it instead of causing more damage trying to get it out. They give me a tetanus shot (which hurt more!) because bullets heat up so are sterile, but BBs do not.
Saved by being shot in the ass? Because it stopped on a big bone. Assured by the Surgeon, from the wound dynamics here, and experience with others, that these multi-pump guns will go through you like a .22. A few inches higher and it goes straight through the intestines, then words like “resection” are used. In the upper torso: collapsed lungs, holes in your heart and a non-trivial chance of death.
Head shots (he offered the rest at great length without prompting, I asked this one): not so bad. They do not penetrate bone so well. But soft tissues, at close range, the old guns were effectively guns he said.
On my tenth birthday I was out with the Cub Scout Troop for an overnight camping event. Everyone else (my parents were default anti-gun, so I didn’t own one) brought a BB or pellet gun. This was a terrible idea as none of the adults had the first clue so didn’t well manage the use of the guns.
So, we’re walking down a trail mid-morning and thwack-shock. The idiot kid behind me tripped over a rock and shot me with his BB gun. I promise, round steel shot .177 caliber, not any snazzier pellet gun. He was carrying it loaded, cocked, safety off (on purpose!), finger on the trigger, and no particular muzzle discipline. Then the actual does-this-ever-really-happen trope where he tripped, tensed up everything, and shot me.
In the ass. Which saved me as it turns out.
Immediate pain, meh. More like horribly stiff and discomfort when moving. Not searing pain but enough to tell you to stop doing that. Not much blood. I hobble to camp, alternate sitting and standing while it takes way too long to pack the camp (yeah, my dad didn’t just take me to the hospital, the whole camp was packed and we all left!)
Hours after getting shot, we get to North Kansas City Hospital. The part that makes the story really worth telling is that my Dad was the (non-sworn) head of PR for KC PD for years, and had left (well, been forced out when there was a housecleaning after McNamara left) just weeks before. And on call at NKC? The KCMO Police Surgeon, who he had worked with on many occasions before. He loved that, liked to say he got to stand over another shooting victim with him.
So friendly and competent doctor, we get the straight scoop instead of all coddled with euphamisms. He pokes at me, they X-ray and find the BB is hard against my pelvis. This is probably some of the deep pain, and the reason for no sharp pain: not much surface damage, but it thwacked the bone.
Since it is so deep, because there’s no damage and no problem with it where it is, he decides to leave it instead of causing more damage trying to get it out. They give me a tetanus shot (which hurt more!) because bullets heat up so are sterile, but BBs do not.
Saved by being shot in the ass? Because it stopped on a big bone. Assured by the Surgeon, from the wound dynamics here, and experience with others, that these multi-pump guns will go through you like a .22. A few inches higher and it goes straight through the intestines, then words like “resection” are used. In the upper torso: collapsed lungs, holes in your heart and a non-trivial chance of death.
Head shots (he offered the rest at great length without prompting, I asked this one): not so bad. They do not penetrate bone so well. But soft tissues, at close range, the old guns were effectively guns he said.
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I've gotten hit with shrapnel a few times, no bullets. Most of the shrapnel was traveling at the wrong angle or speed to enter my body. The one that was traveling fast enough, was stopped by an armored vest right above my heart. I was getting off a duty shift overseas and right when I went to clear my weapon, a rocket flew overhead and hit just outside the gate I was standing at. After half an hour at heightened posture waiting for small arms fire or more indirect, I flopped against a sandbag wall, lit a smoke, and pulled out the shrapnel with a multi tool.
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