Look Ma, I’m getting a reading lesson from the Internet.
The forum IS.
It’s simple probability that causes me to doubt the “it happened once” position (not yours specifically, I’ve heard it before). But decades of actual western history involving thousands of people makes it improbable it didn’t happen more than once.
Interesting you say that about belly wounds. Recall in movie El Dorado, likely death from being “gut shot” was reason Johnny Crawford’s character killed himself after John Wayne had shot him. Character’s father had told him they were fatal. Gotta believe your Pa.
A short story from 1963 Nov. Just got separated from the US Army and was in my parent's basement fooling around with some M1 blanks that i brought home from the camp. They were the ones with the red wad. Wanted to decap them. Dumped the powder from all but one. Used a nail set to decap. Any way case in the vise mailset held by a plier. FORGOT to remove the wad. BOOM case split one piece of brass wound up in my left index fingers knuckle to the bone and two other pieces in my right forearm. 60 years later still have the scar in the knuckle. Young and dumb and full of fun.Drop 5 or 6 lit M80's at your feet and don't move..........................let's see how un-serious the injuries are.................
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