Back when we were young (and dinosaurs ruled the earth) a couple of my husband’s friends were out hunting in what passed for the Wild West then (Pennsylvania). One of them was standing on a rock. Shotgun went off, projectiles bounced off the rock and hit him in the behind. He spent a very embarrassing remainder of the day in a local ER department having the buckshot picked out.
I read somewhere they generally leave gunshot wounds open so they can heal from the inside out. They don’t want to seal in bits of foreign matter and dead tissue or something.
Thanks everyone. This is great information, especially since it gives me a lot of leeway. I still have to choreograph things (how the gun is being held, what happens), and I have several options (I’d love to be able to justify the shot being deliberate), but this is plenty for me to use.
Anacdotal note:
I had just finished reloading the chambers of my .22 revolver, and was letting the hammer down off half-cock while putting the weapon into a leg holster. Had done the same thing for more years than I can remember. The hammer slipped from under my thumb, the round fired, and there was a slight concussion effect next to my little toe as the bullet went into the beach sand. I remember feeling very fortunate that I was shooting my .22 that day, and not my Blackhawk, or I’d have “Nine-toes” as a Doper name.
Lieu, I just wanted to make sure that nobody read about buzz-saw like bullets and start visualizing something along lines of these things from Screamers 
For more inquiring minds here is comparison between different types of ammo (photos included): Bullet Test. IMHO they don’t really differ from other JHP bullets like Gold Dots for example. But it’s just opinion.
I guess I just heard to much of hollywood-spawned babble about those uber-evil bullets capable of removing limbs, knocking guys ten feet into air or ripping whole shoulderblade out. Sorry if my post come too abrasive.
Not at all, friend. Thanks for this last link too. A very good read for what you’re best using away from the range.
The irony is that the media portrayed these bullets as being “cop killer” bullets because the teflon let them penetrate bulletproof vests. Nonsense. The teflon coating helped protect the barrel from excessive wear because of the bullet shape. JHP rounds deform and penetrate less than standard ball rounds. The “cop killer bullet” was less likely to penetrate a bulletproof vest than a vanilla round.
But the media is very consistently, and willfully, wrong when it comes to the issue of firearms.
By the way, it makes me wince when I read “the gun went off”. No, guns don’t have a mind of their own and decide to go off. They tend to be extremely mechanically reliable and very, very, very, very rarely spontaneously fire. In pretty much every case where anyone says a gun “went off”, it means that someone fucked up and shot the gun.
Like in that DEA agent video - you can’t say the “gun went off” - the moron held the slide back to demonstrate that the chamber was empty AND THEN LET THE SLIDE FALL ON AN INSERTED MAGAZINE without checking to see if the magazine was loaded. Grade-A stupid. And then he pulled the trigger for no reason, compounding his error.
I have a muzzleloader just like that one.
Anybody wanna buy an unfired Traditions Buckhunter in .50? 
Just kidding. I plan to get out to the range soon. Big smoke, lotsa smoke. What more could one ask for, huh?
Oh, BTW, I’m wondering if that guy was using a blank. The wad could hurt like hell, but still not draw blood.
Peace,
mangeorge