@LH75, that had to have been an indirect hit of some sort, because there’s no way to stop a full-speed bullet with only a shallow wound.
And it doesn’t take very much blood at all to make a huge mess. Fortunately, I learned that the easy way, with a squib of fake blood, during a stage play: Less than an ounce managed to cover the entire set.
It happened because of poor gun handling by my brother. He was only a few feet from me and had it been direct, even a .22 would have blown through my knee and crippled me for life.
As it was, the last time he called me before he died the phone rang about six times before I could get in from the front porch. When I picked up the phone I said: “Gee Jack, I am sorry it took so long to answer. I had to limp to the phone.”
That’s brotherly love right there.
Almost totally off topic, my baby sister once shot our parent’s waterbed with a .45.
As we were young and stupid, we thought we could cover it up, so patched the bed and went out and bought all new bedding and foo-fooed everything up. When our folks got back from their vacation, they got into a very wet bed because the pressure of the bullet blew off a patch on the side of the bed that we didn’t know about.
When my folks moved, Dad cut the mattress open, found the bullet and had it made into a necklace for my sister. Its been over 40 years and I still bring it up every time I can just because I’m her big sister.
Bit early for Klashnikovs. The 1980’s violence was using old three nought threes or M1 Garlands which they had access to through NCC training. Maybe a Sten.
The AK47 started coming in when the Red Army retreated from Afghanistan and left behind something like a half a million weapons.
Except for the Sten, the caliber weapons would be much worse for the body than a AK47.
There were definitely AK-47s being used by both IJT and Pakhtoon “student” groups from the mid-80s on.
I can’t be sure what kind of weapons were used in the particular incident I’m talking about, but I was out of Pakistan when the Soviets started retreating, and I definitely HEARD a lot about AK-47s in the 3 years I was at Karachi University. This article seems to bear out my memory.
NFP isn’t the most reliable author. There were the occasional AK47’ around but most of the troublemakers did not have access to them until the Soviet withdrawal. The KGB was pretty effective in keeping track of weapons sold outside the USSR, until the Soviet collapse when the stores started being stripped clean including in former Soviet territory.
There is a reason the Army was sent in in 89/90 since the weapons available has increased in quantity and quality and the police could no longer contain it.
Ending hijack, your friend was/is a lucky man. An infantry grade weapon causes a hell of a lot more damage than a bog standard civilian handgun.
There is a chance of a “clean” shot with the later not with the former.
The KGB might have controlled exports, but isn’t the AK47 a very widely (and easily) copied design?
I think you meant to say:
c) Barrels of almost all firearms (shotguns and muskets excluded) are shaped so the bullet start rotating as soon as it is fired. I don’t know if the rest of your post was nonsense but I am certain that sentence was.
Bullets spin for greater accuracy. I have no idea how bullet spin affects the resulting wounds other than that spinning bullets are more likely to hit where they were aimed.
I think he meant rotating as in tumbling.
Yes, I am aware that bullets rotate ( around their horizontal axis) since the gun is rifled. I meant that the bullet start turning vertically or horizontally around its center of mass, thus making a larger and irregular path. Sorry English (or American) is not my primary language.
Yes, tumbling.
My latest ‘toy’ is the new Ruger 57 pistol. Shoots a 5.7 X 28mm bullet. Basically a bottle necked down .22 bullet with a lot of powder behind it, a lot of power. Very fast bullet that imparts a lot of energy on the target. As in 2000 feet per second energy. The round was developed for military use but was passed over by NATO and so became offered first by FN Herstal of Belgium.
After seeing ballistic gelatin being shot by this round I would much prefer to be shot by 9mm at about 1000 fps than this new gun.
Love the gun though, shoots fast, flat and is accurate beyond the dreams of most pistols.
If you’ve got to have a bullet wound on your body, you want a nice clean exit wound on the other side of it. Large exit wounds are bad. Lack of exit wound is bad.
I’m not saying it’s a good outcome, but it’s often the least bad outcome.