I’ve read a number of combat oral histories and “felt like getting hit with a baseball bat/sledgehammer” was a common descriptor.
A former neighbor of mine was shot in the abdomen with a .22 caliber pistol. He said it was like being stabbed deep with a red hot poker.
-as an RN who worked with LEOs-almost all GSW “victims” i saw- even one hit in the abdomen by a 40cal at close range- had little if any complaint. Some still fought, some didn’t want medical tx," nurse ron it just burns a little!"even fatal wounds didn’t present as very painful, i still don’t want to test it, i did not like the Taser!
Been there. Done that. Intense heat from a gunshot is not fictional, or at least wasn’t for me. Several posters have pointed out that it’s not enough to “sear” the flesh. While this technically may be true very few people have experienced enough heat high enough to sear flesh and heat high enough to come near to searing flesh to be able to distriguish between the two sensations. It’s hot and painful, though the pain was localized to the area where I was shot, the problem is the pain is so intense it really doesn’t matter that other parts of your body are not suffering.
That depends, I think, on where and how you’re hit. I’ve described a bullet to the forehead as a hammer made of blinding white light, but it (very, very fortunately) didn’t penetrate, so I didn’t get the railroad spike (which would likely have been a very brief sensation, if I had survived long enough to feel it at all). Instead, I got a line of pain across my forehead, a seriously strained neck, and a pounding headache that quickly spread into an everything ache.
And how, pray tell, did you determine that? Did the hospital do a biopsy of the wound o confirm partial thickness burns within the wound canal?
How else could you possibly know that there was intense heat in a a sever wound?
And if what you claim is ture, how can you explain how a few grams of lead can contain sufficient heat to burn several dozen milliliters of water without becoming molten? Are you re-writing the laws of physics?
I don’t know where you come from, but where I am from every person has experienced numerous partial thickness burns burns of all kinds by the time they turn 18. Contrary to your claims that finding such people would be difficult, trying to find an adult in the US who has not experienced partial thickness burns of all severities would be nearly impossible.
How did you determine this? Stick a thermometer into the wound? If not how could yo possibly know how hot it was? Surely you are not suggesting that you an accurately judhe the amount of heat in a wound by the sensation? :eek: