Who's been shot?

[Deanimator]

Once while on an indoor range 11 or 12 years ago, I was shooting next to somebody shooting a .44 Magnum. Suddenly, I noticed a burning sensation in the back of my shooting hand. I looked down and saw a big hunk of jacket material sticking out of the back of my hand. It didn't penetrate deeply, just deep enough for one of the petals to penetrate the flesh and stick. I pulled it out, left the range, got a bandaid and came back and finished shooting.

 

[Starter52]

I checked "no". I was hit with birdshot once from about 90 yards. It peppered my back but didn't penetrate my denim jacket. A few hit me in the back of the neck, not hard enough to worry about.

That, plus I shot myself in the head with a BB pistol when I was a kid.

 

[TimboKhan]

Operation Desert Storm, to answer the question "where was I shot"....

 

[vis-à-vis]

When I was a teen I almost shot myself in the foot defending against a horse fly with a browning .22. That same day I drew from the hip and split a dragon fly down the middle.

Oh the things a 14 year old will due in the backwoods of ohio.

 

[knuckles]

Probably would be best to just use the search on this one.... This thread comes up about every six months and usually drags out a fair rate of response.

Yeah, I did search for 'who's been shot' and didn't get any returns. I guess I'll try more varied search criteria next time, maybe I'll get lucky.

For those that mentioned that is might be difficult to talk about, I certainly meant no offense. And for those that did post their story, thanks for doing so...

 

[USSR]

They say you don't see the one with your name on it, but that's not always the case. Was teaching a girlfriend how to shoot a S&W .38 Special. I had a target hung in front of a 1/2" steel plate that was angled at about 45 degrees to direct the bullets down into sand at the base of the steel plate. At an earlier date, I had shot some '06 into the steel plate, which went about 3/4 of the way thru, and left some craters in the steel plate. Evidently, one of her bullets went into a crater and came directly back to me (I was standing beside her). I actually saw the bullet coming, and it hit me in the shoulder and dropped down on the ground in front of me. Didn't hurt or anything, but it really freaked me out. So, yeah, I've been shot. No big deal.

Don

 

[learn2shoot]

I checked no...

But I did see a guy take a .45 ricochet off a bowling pin to the neck, did not break the skin, but scared the <cuss word of choice> out of everyone who witnessed this guy drop to the floor.

Actually I might have taken a BB gun a once or twice, my brother and I were always doing stuff like.

 

[P97]

About 30 years ago my wife and I were going fishing in a pond on our Ranch. I had a Ruger, 30 cal. Blackhawk that I kept loaded for home protection. When we started from the bedroom through the kitchen, I had it in a holster carrying it in my hand, and it tipped up enough, that it slid out and hit the hammer on the tile floor and fired. The bullet went in my leg above the knee and came out of my thigh and lodged in the credits cards in my wallet. I was very lucky because it could have hit my wife, who was one step behind me, or could have hit me in the vitals. The firing pin block has taken care of that, but I should have had it on a empty chamber

 

[txgho1911]

Stoopid stunt by brothers and negligence. Shot thru the wrist bounced off the bone and ended up lost in the woods. 22lr at first felt like holding 220v in my hand and no way to shake it off. Soon after it burned and later it ached. I was 12 and brothers where younger and older.
Teach the kids younge and build some confidence. Scare the hell out of them about the consequence of not following the 4 rules all the time. Teach your kids the 4 rules. Most of the teachings a youngun needs can be found in these pages and posts. They will do your child all harm and peril if you refuse.

Cousin was next door and his friend was showing off a shotgun. 20 years ago now and I was not there. His friend landed in a weelchair with only his arms still working.

Some lessons for children who know how to learn will follow instructions and leave the HD weapon where it belongs untill it is called for.

Take it for what it is worth.

 

[Tom Bri]

Awww shucks. I answered the poll before I read the other posts. So I voted yes, got shot by my cousin with a daisy BB gun when I was 10 or so. He shot several other people with the same gun, and actually drew blood on one. Then my Dad took it away. It was my gun too, so I was pretty pissed.

 

[AndyC]

One of those questions which just get me all grumpy - I'm becoming an old coot

 

[648E]

Haven't Been Shot Myself

I was shooting a 3/8" steel plate with my AR from way too close in the dark. M855 will go through but Federal American Eagle doesn't. A ricochet grazed my neck and I decided not to do that anymore. Not sure if it woulda stuck in me if it had been to the left an inch but I didn't care to find out.

A friend and I shot a sign laying on the ground with our 20 gauges when we were kids and both caught birdshot in the face, way too close to the eyes. Not a good idea.

Also when I was about 7 my dad and I were out bird hunting and the discussion of bears came up. He wanted to give me an idea of what a shotgun blast might do to a bear and took a pot shot at a nearby smallish popple tree. I caught a bb in the cheek. I know a bit more about guns now and I still wouldn't expect a ricochet of a tree like that!

 

[swan hunter]

Shot in the abdomen and legs w/12 ga

I was a senior in High School. We were hunting quail & rabbits. It was supposed to be me and a classmate but he brought "looser" classmate. I was walking through high honeysuckle vines when I heard birds flush on the other side. I saw the leaves in front of me shake and heard the shot.
I ended up with about 45 #6 shot to the bone in my thighs and a few shot almost got me in the liver...Missed my privates!!!
It dropped me to my knees when I was hit and I walked to the edge of the woods and a friend went for help...a pickup across corn rows for about a quarter mile...It hurt!
They left the pellets in...it would have taken 45 operations to remove all them. No problems since that I know of. I am 52 now.

 

[thexrayboy]

Took some bird shot once while in college. Never did figure out who or where it came from. Ruined a perfectly good leather bomber jacket but not a scratch on me. Felt like catching a wild pitch in the back. Happened in the middle of the night as I was pounding a foot beat working to pay for college.
We searched high and low for the BG but no sign of anything. Just one of those mysteries.

 

[hatterasurf]

I got shot three time with a 1911 .45. It felt like BBs hitting me. I was not impress with the caliber. Thank goodness it was not a 9mm.

 

[10-Ring]

Yeah, not so much

 

[Hypnogator]

Never been shot, but was shot at a couple of times.

I can personally attest to Churchill's observation: "Nothing is so exhilerating as to be shot at without effect."

 

[duck_god1982]

Getting Shoot

I was shot by some guy while out turkey hunting. He came in late in the morning and scared our birds. Said he was going to hunt a spot about 300yds behind us. About 2hrs after he came in I stood up to strech and collect my decoys he shot me in the back. It was a 31/2 5 shot turkey load from about 30 yds. It went through my gilly suit and then through my cammies I had on. The pellets went into my skin and where taken out by my friend on the scene. The fellow who shot me tried to run but was stopped by my friend and detaind till the game warden showed up. Last I heard he lost all hunting and gun rights. He told the game warden he was hunting squirel and did not see me. Funny squirel hunting ends in early Feb. and it was early Apr. No lasting affects expect I will never hunt turkeys on public land ever again.

 

[threefeathers]

As a teenager, 15, in the chest with a 22 short, it bounced off a rib and bled like heck. Bruised for at least 4 weeks, puss and guk, for a week or so. VN, shrapnel in the meat of the right tricip from an 82mm mortar when I was visiting a buddy at a place called Tam Ky or something like that, then I had a bullet take out the bottom part of my right eye in a firefight near Danil in the El Parisio Mtns. The last was by far the worst because I got a horrific eye disease that won't go away.

 

[det.pat]

once while serving as mp in the army, once on a qualification range [hit by a ricochet from a target stand] the first was in the right thigh and the second was center mass. both were unpleasant.
pat

 

[CypherNinja]

It was only a fragment, but I voted yes anyway.


I'm the first range accident in the 30 year history of the ROTC range at the University of Akron in Ohio (or so I'm told). It involved a 5'4" band-girl and an M16.

It was annoying at the time, but now I look back on it as more of a wacky adventure involving several notable characters at the ROTC (band-girl, psycho Gunny, horrified Lt. Col) and the local (completely overwhelmed) inner city hospital (x-ray technician wearing Heineken shirt, intern with pliers, two bored cops responding to a reported gunshot wound expecting a gangbanger).

REALLY getting shot has gotta suck big time, but I had fun.

 

[Mortech]

The first time I was in 1983 while I was visiting with a college friend in Chicago , Cabrini Green . A 38 spl rnd creased my left leg I never noticed until we made it back to the friends home . Second time was in 94 , a female shooter dropped her P38 , it went off (It was one of those with a faulty safety ) the 9mm round went right to left through my leg just above my left knee , again I didn't even feel it , a nearby friend told me my leg was bleeding . But boy both wounds hurt like hell a couple days later !

 

[C-grunt]

I took a 5.56 fragment to the hand outside of Baghdad in '03 when my squad leader was shooting a lock of a door.It went in about 1/2 inch and I was able to pull it out. No lasting effects except the scar. It felt like a bee sting and bled for a few days. It started to hurt later that day when we were done clearing that village.

I also took a little bit of shrapnel in the right forearm from a 40mm 203 grenade that we shot a steel door with.....We tried to breach that door with the shotgun, rifles, and even 20 rounds out of my SAW. By the way, the 203 only blew a hole big enough through the door to reach through and unlock it. I faired better than the gunner though, he took his shrapnel to the butt cheecks

The 3 155mm shells IED that hit my Brad last year has given me headaches almost everyday since. It knocked me out for about 10 seconds and gave me a concusion that lasted almost a week.

 

[MTMilitiaman]

Damn dude!

I am fortunate enough to have never been shot. I would kinda like to keep it that way, but really joined the wrong profession (Marine Corp infantry, ship to basic in Oct) to be totally safe, so I guess we get to find out how lucky I am.

 

[Limeyfellow]

I am one of the few people around this area who doesn't seem to have been shot before. We had guys answer the phone with the pistol in their hand and blow their heads off, malfunctions that shot up my brother in law's hand, luckly with only a .22. At the end of the road one woman lost two family members to firearms, though one was suicide. Up the hill some guy shot his son in the head. 5 years ago a kid shot his brother with a shotgun playing around with it. I think I just need to build a bunker for safety around here.