Just curious but I was wondering if anybody out there has recieved a gunshot wound.
Thanks
Got shot in the butt with a pellet gun if that counts. I’m assuming you’re looking for something a bit more serious than that though right?
She asked if anyone had been shot before, not behind.
I’ve been shot at, but not shot. During my first semester of law school I lived in the Third Ward across the street from my school. One night while walking back from the beer store a van pulled up next to me; I saw a blinking light and heard this vip vip vip! like a metallic sneeze going past me. I said “My goodness, those gentlemen are shooting at me”, or something of that nature, and fell flat on my ass Matrix style. I think they were probably only shooting over my head to scare me. It worked.
I know a few people who have been sucessfully shot who told me I should (1) Thank my lucky stars, and (2) move, not necessarily in that order.
Yo. As souvenirs I have two scars on my forehead, a funny-after-the-fact story, and a profound distrust of firearms (and of my cousin’s ability to keep the slugs headed downrange).
Once upon a time, I was visiting a cousin of mine. Said cousin suggested whiling away an afternoon on the shooting range he’d set up. Not being overfond of guns even then, I was reluctant, but he talked me into it–truth be told, I intended to watch, then mock his poor aim mercilessly on the ride back. Upon arriving at his “range” (a random assortment of vaguely target-like things, none of which appeared to have been successfully shot in the past), I positioned myself a good 10 feet behind him. This was, after all, the cousin who once managed the unlikely feat of shooting himself in the butt with a pellet rifle. After the fact, I recall his first shot making at least one snapping noises and a sort of buzzing sound (not unlike the metallic sneeze Pravnik mentioned). Whether I heard them before or after the piece of .38 slug hit me, I have no idea. Regardless, roughly half of the slug hit me at a steep downward angle about 1.5 inches above the bridge of my nose, traced a line of fire under my skin, struck my left brow ridge, and was deflected back out (accompanied by a fine mist of blood and a startlingly mild “Ow”). I was knocked over backwards and possibly knocked out for a second. According to my cousin, I looked dead. Now, he has the perception of a none-too-bright rock, but I have no reason to doubt him. After all, I was sprawled on my back, my eyes were shut, and I had a bloody hole in my forehead moments after a gun was fired. My next clear memory is of snapping my eyes open, seeing him crouched over me, and grabbing him by the throat (A “you sonuvabitch” may also have been uttered.) He made a shrill little squeaking noise and fell over in a dead faint. I shook him awake and made him drive me to the hospital–I wound up with a few stitches and a mild concussion.
We never figured out how the slug got all the way back to me.
Pravnik, some bastards pulled a drive-by on me when I was at LSU, living in a “student ghetto” that was going rapidly downhill. That’s not nearly as fun a story. I did exactly what’s been recommended to you: I moved. I got a second part-time job and a roommate to make up the difference in rent–that was a lot better than getting shot at. If you haven’t moved yet, I suggest you do so.
i have been shot at as well–
I once shot a coke bottle with a bb gun at close range only to have to bb bounch back and nail me in the shoulder. Luckily I had a thick sweater on that managed to spread out the force. I got away with a small bruise and a stinging sensation.
I got shot in the head with a bb gun when I was a kid. It hurt like hell. It was my best friend that did it, too.
He claims it was an accident.
I got hit in the front teeth by a ricochet once.
Didn’t help my overbite though.
Sam Stone has. In this recent GQ thread:
I shot a pellet at short range at a piece of wood, and it reflected off a knot and scraped the side of my face, an inch from my eye. I almost shot my eye out.
Anticipating a great sequential titles line-up:
SDMB black rifle club
Any of y’all been shot before?
I’ve been shot in the back, foot, and ankle with a BB gun. Nothing else, though.
And yes, it hurts.
I’ve been ‘shot’ by an arrow. You know the sort of thing, a sharpened 30cm garden cane and a home-made bow fired across the street at each other. Notwithstanding the rudimentary materials, you should have seen those things fly. Come to think of it, it might have worked out better for me if I’d been paying more attention. And no irresponsible children were (seriously) hurt in the making of this story!
I’ve been shot through the heart, and you’re to blame…
I remember when using a pellet rifle as a kid, and shooting at cans balanced on sawhorses, occasionally the pellets would ricochet back and hit the back of the garage perhaps 15-20’ behind me. I don’t know about the physics of ricocheting bullets vs. lead pellets, but it’s a thought.
Never been shot, myself. My husband was once stung in the leg by some ‘bird shot’ while hunting pheasant.
I was shot by birdshot once. It stung like hell, but no real damage. ( I had to pick out a couple of pieces)
I then decked the moron who shot me.
Yes.
The scar’s faded a lot.
Well if BB guns count, then I’m in. We were playing war games in my friends back yard and I took one right between the eyes, yes it hurt, no the parents didn’t find out (I told them I fell on a stick).
Yes.
I was in a gully in Arizona, shooting some pistols with a friend of mine. Next thing I know, little pellets of lead are falling onto us. I look up, and clay pigeons are coming over an embankment rather high over our heads, and exploding into teeny-tiny shards
Apparently, some shotgunners either A) didn’t hear or see us shooting 40SW pistols, B) didn’t think to check where their rounds were going, or C) some combination of both. We lobbed a round in the air and they quickly stopped and apologized.
So FWIW, I was in the ‘beaten zone’. Does that count?
Tripler
I’ve been fragged by a 40mm M203 round but that only sorta stung a little.