Man shot in face, spits out bullet....Guess the caliber?

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Caliber not listed in the story, but can someone find out? Maybe someone who lives near the event and can find a newspaper story or a police report?

I'm guessing it's going to be a .25 ACP.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5320169/



WOAI-TV

June 29, 2004 - A San Antonio man is shot in the face, then spits out the bullet.

Police say the 37-year-old man was shot at by his girlfriend's brother just close to 8 p.m. Monday on F Street on the east side.

The bullet entered the man's right cheek, went into the his mouth, and knocked out a few teeth, police said. He spit out the teeth and the bullet, police said.

Officers are looking for Francisco Contreras from Laredo in connection with the shooting. They believe he is on his way there.

The victim was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
 
Stuff like that use to happen in the Revolution or Civil War. Confederate General Patrick Cleburne was shot in the mouth and lost some teeth (ouch!).
 
It was a .22

SAN ANTONIO -- A 37-year-old man was shot late Monday following an argument with another man over a woman.

Police said the two men were arguing over the victim's sister in the 200 block of F Street when the woman's boyfriend allegedly shot the victim in the face with a .22-caliber handgun.

San Antonio Police Department Lt. Brian Head said the bullet entered the victim's right cheek and went into his mouth.

"(The) bullet ... knocked out a couple of teeth," Head said. "He spit out the bullet and the teeth while he was running from the scene."

Police are looking for the alleged gunman, who is believed to be driving a black Ford Escort with Texas license plates X12PCH. The man, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall and heavyset, has multiple tattoos on his body and is believed to be headed toward Laredo
 
In Tampa 2 days ago, a bad guy entered a camera shop intent on robbing it. The clerk, a man, just happened to be a "sport shooter" who armed himself when the B/G pulled his gun. The B/G shot the clerk in the forehead and ran out of the store, the clerk chased the B/G and shot him down outside of the store, this after being shot in the forehead. Police counted 18 or 19 spent shell casings at the scene. A lady bystander in a car was wounded in the mele'. All three in hospital recovering from their wounds. I sure would like to know what caliber the B/G was using, the article didn't say. My bet it was a .22 or .25. Lesson's to be learned here, with 18 or 19 spent shell casings on the ground, three people wounded with non life threatening injuries, makes you wonder what the clerk had also.
 
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with 18 or 19 spent shell casings on the ground, three people wounded with non life threatening injuries, makes you wonder what the clerk had also.
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He was shooting sausages -- cases are part of cartridtges. Casings are part of sausages.
 
It happens.

My grandmother was shot in the forehead with .22 short when she was a child.. It was a 40 mile trip to town in a horse drawn buggy.

She didn't seem to be in much danger, just a serious headache for a couple of days so they didn't to anything.The trip to town in mid winter in Wyoming was probably more dangerous than the bullet wound.

40 years later she blew her nose and felt a solid lump hit her handkerchief.
It was the deformed .22 bullet..

So much for head shots with a mouse gun!!
 
Ouch!!

I remember on the old Tonight Show, Johnny Carson had a guest who would have his partner shoot him in the forehead with a .22. As young as I was at the time, it seemed for real. I can only imagine his aspirin bills, though.
 
40 years later she blew her nose and felt a solid lump hit her handkerchief.

Wow.........that is scary.:eek:
 
I would not use a .22 or .25 for self-defense. But, I have noticed in many of the murders in our city a .25 has been used as the weapon of choice.

Mrs. Toro


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Matthew 6:4,5
"That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth it in secret himself shall reward thee openly. "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
 
Hey Iggy....does your family, I hope, still have that bullet Grandma blew out her nose years later?

And what part of Wyoming? I used to live up there.

hillbilly
 
Actually, I've heard news reports of a guy getting shot in the face with a .22 and blowing his nose and the bullet coming out. And my Daddy told me he worked with a guy at one time who got shot in the head with a .25 auto. The bullet went under the skin and went around the outside of his skull to the back of his head. Somebody here said they wouldn't have a .22 or .25 for defense. Me neither. But I know some people I think are, while mentally tough, may not be the smartest people I know, and do have .25s and .22s for defense just because they can stick 'em in their pockets.
 
So Iggy, you can count your existense on somebody not using .22 Longs!

The part about the winter trip being more dangerous than the injury is a telling point about hardships back then. We take our easy lives for granted, and most of us would not do well in the past, me (especially) included. We should thank our hardy forebears for persevering and providing for our cushy lives. Now pass the remote!
 
VERN HUMPHREY, I was quoting what the article in the paper said, that " 18 or 19 "Shell Casings" were found by police officers after the shooting.
Sorry that everyone is not as much of an expert as you with regard to firearms related objects, perhaps you would have prefered that the newspaper had said that spent brass or empty cartridges had been found. Also it is sad that you had to make a joke out of a serious situation.
By the way the incident happened in Lake Land, FL and now the police are trying to decide if they can charge the clerk with some kind of crime even though the B/G shot him in the commision of a crime, they are alluding to the fact that he over reacted. Lesson to be learned here.:banghead:
 
Back in high school, I was on the Academic Decathlon team. Our subject for that year was the brain. We learned that a GSW to the head doesn't kill by penetration, but rather by the shockwave that liquifies brain tissue. One of the stories in the book was of a teenager who shot himself in the side of the head with a .22. The round penetrated his skull and severed his frontal lobe, but left the rest of his brain intact as the bullet had too little energy to have any serious hydrostatic effects on the surrounding tissue. I suspect he found a nice government job as an adult.
 
One of the stories in the book was of a teenager who shot himself in the side of the head with a .22. The round penetrated his skull and severed his frontal lobe, but left the rest of his brain intact as the bullet had too little energy to have any serious hydrostatic effects on the surrounding tissue. I suspect he found a nice government job as an adult.
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And then john kerry decided to go into politics....
 
A number of years ago, in Washington, D.C., a man was shot between the eyes with a .45 auto pistol. The bullet skewed sideways, went around the inside of the skull and out at the back. The guy not only lived, but fully recovered with only a couple of scars and a headache. X-rays showed no brain damage.

Jim
 
It was an AR15 in .223, they just aren't reliable enough and too under powered! When will they learn and go back to the 308?:D

Not too many years ago I watched on a night show a target shooter aim for a bullet trap held in his buddy's open mouth. Distance was 20 feet using a .22 rifle live on TV. HE MISSED the bullet trap and shot his buddy in the mouth. Guy was bleeding and they took him to the hospital, later saying he was admitted but OK.
 
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23426&highlight=iodine


I saw a guy get shot in the head with a .32 from a distance of maybe 20 feet years ago; the bullet hit him high in the forehead and traversed his skull under his scalp to the back of his head and remained lodged under the scalp at the occipital protuberance (that lumpy bone on the back of your noggin). When we got him to the ER the doctor made a small incision and removed the bullet and swabbed the wound channel with an iodine swab on a wire, then closed up the exit cut. He never lost consciousness, and there was no fracture of the skull. He did, however, have a tremendous headache for several days.

Of couse, we all thought he was going to be dead before we got him anywhere. Scalp wounds bleed like Niagra Falls. That was one small town bar we never went back to.

Regards,
Rabbit.
 
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