Crucifixion victims eventually die from asphyxiation, not from bleeding.
What little I know of automatic weapons tells me that you usually don’t get hit with too many bullets from them, as the barrel tends to rise and what not, but given the hundreds-of-rounds-per-second rates of fire some of those things have, surely someone must have taken a few dozen in the leg and lived? Stranger things have happened, haven’t they?
I’ve heard a story about an RAF pilot during the Battle of Britain who was shot multiple times, yet landed his plane and made his report to the commanding officer before seeking treatment. But despite googling like a mf, I can’t find an actual account of it.
The death of Rasputin is something else. For instance, see the really really fine biography Nicholas and Alexandra. While the life and death of Rasputin resembles über urban myths galore - he was truly something else, as was his death (there are a few wtf characters in the history of man). Anyhow, the book by Massie is recommended.
I’m putting this up as anecdotal because I can’t confirm the source.
This goes to a gun owners message board and the OP relates a story he first heard on the radio and apparently confirmed on a website. He gives the address, which goes to somewhere called access atlanta, but the specific page has disappeared. The OP quotes from the absent page as follows:
I’ve removed some annoying comments made by the OP and, using some considerable restraint, I’ve refrained from adding any of my own. Especially where the victim is said to be doing well.
Details of this story are unavailable at any other website as far as I’m aware. However, there is a doctor called Raymond Cava whose last known place of work is Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Kelly Flite did once work for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Does anybody have a recollection of this incident or is it merely an elaborate fiction?
Peanuthead: “Doctor, how is 50 cent doing?”
Doctor: “No change.”
Well, here we go again. A serious question in GQ and someone just has, just HAS to make some silly joke
about (No change?)
50 cents?
((snert)) (cough) BWA
(cough, cough) HAHA
'Scuse me, I have a cold.
http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/8903
He also was wounded by a grenade as well as the bullet wounds on the same day.
I remember a old republican(in the Irish sense) say that when Cathal walked into the first Irish Parliament you could hear the English bullets rattling in him 
He was killed during the Irish Civil war
Say what you want about his politics but the man was a fucking rock.
Don’t know ‘bout that. Poor ol’ Joe Mannix was shot in his arm about 50 times (or so it seemed that many times) and always survived.
(okay, but not all at once! :smack: )
This story is about a guy who was shot 25 times by police, and lived.
According to an unsourced statement at Wikipedia, some sources claim Ned Kelly took 26 bullets in the legs and survived to stand trial. The situation - armoured head and torso, lone man against many armed opponents, the year 1880 - seems ideal for producing a record number of shots.
If you’re not hit in the heart, lungs, a major artery, the brain, or the upper spine, you can keep on trucking for a right long time. Generally it’s the lung or the bleeding that gets you.
How about a shotgun, is that just one, or do you count the individual pellets?
Or sepsis, particularly if you get shot in the gut. The .22 Long Rifle round is the all time king in death by shooting, not because it is a particularly effective round in terms of stopping potential (it’s not) but because the high sectional density allows it to pass through and through, and because many times victims disregard the wound as being minor, then succomb to systemic failure days later. Bleeding will actually pretty much fix itself by the natural processes of hemostasis (clotting, constriction, et cetera) if you haven’t hit an artery or major internal organ, and lung punctures are typically fatal within a few minutes from pneumothorax (lung collapse) if not treated.
The human body is kind of an amazing thing; it can take a lot of punishment and keep on going, but the kind of intrusive trauma done by firearms pretty much guarantees that anything but a grazing hit will have residual consequences. This whole business about taking a “flesh wound” to the shoulder is pure Hollywood bullshit; between the number of nerves going through that region and the profusion of blood vessels and critical mechanical connections getting shot in the shoulder is going to put an end to anyone’s pitching career.
This isn’t in the running for the numerical extreme, but my grandfather once reputedly shot a robber in the chest three times, including one shot that entered the heart, with a .32 S&W Long. Despite the heart shot and being left on the floor to bleed while police jawed on a bit and escorted the other perpetrators out of the building, the guy survived and did a stretch at one of our nation’s then-finest Federal penitentiary. (The robbers had planned the heist across state lines and were wanted for a string of cowboy jewel robberies in multiple states, hence Federal involvement.) As a result, he moved up to the .38 Spl, backed up by a 12 gauge hogleg under the counter. I question the efficacy of the .38 Spl (this is before the .357 Magnum became widely issued in law enforcement circles) but I think 12 gauge buckshot at close range is pretty much going to stamp anyone’s ticket as paid.
Stranger
No, no, it was Matt Dillon that had the most arm wounds.
And in this vein, the answer to the OP is clearly Robocop.
The undisputed champion, I’d suggest is Roy Benavidez. Benavidez was a US Army SF soldier in Vietnam. He took 37 bullet and bayonet wounds, plus a broken jaw and multiple blunt impacts, along with shrapnel.
Did he really stand trial after being hit in the legs 26 times?!
I’m sorry, but I don’t recall Dillon getting shot as often as Mannix did.
And that was just by music lovers.
Louis Redman back in the 1800’s was a moon shiner in North Carolina and killed a revenue man. He supposily was shot 18 times when arrested a few years later, but he lived and served several years in prison for the killing.
