Anyone been shot?

Arm wound, small caliber. Burning hot pain that went away (mostly) in twenty minutes or so, but movement was painful. I don't recommend it.

twb
 
Luckily, I've only been shot in the a$$ with a BB gun. Stung like crazy. I have an uncle that was shot twice with a shotgun at close range (leg and back) and lived to tell about it, but didn't remember feeling any pain. He went into shock pretty quick. He was wearing a leather jacket and the docs said it saved his life. He was messin' with another man's wife.
 
Wrote a post........deleted most of it............all that's left is:

I don't recommend it to most. I insisted on it for others.

I am alive, others are not, they earned what I only worked for.
 
My neighbor shot me in the back with #7 shot when he was engaging a running pheasant. Felt like a bee stung me. Only one pellet that I know of.

Anyone who has ever shot rifle or pistol at the Fort Knox Rod and Gun Club can verify that you get "peppered" just by standing on the firing line, or going downrange to check targets. The Trap and Skeet Club shoots in the direction of the firing line. My guess is that the Army wants all future Armor Officers to know what being shot at is like....

Friend of mine took 3 - 12 gauge rounds at near contact range. #7 shot (pheasant hunting is good around where I am from.) He was able to walk over to the phone and dial 911 and then sat down to wait for the ambulance.

(The BG was a psycho woman who was convinced my buddy was molesting her in her "dreams":eek:)
 
I was reading a fun fact book and there was a fellow who had shot himself to see what it felt like. Then a few weeks later he shot himself again to see if it hurt as much as the last time.
 
ever been shot?

never been shot but have been peppered plenty of times which hurt enough for me....duck hunting last year I got to a bad ass natural blind...it was about 4:30 am and I saw a boat getting to close to me and my buddy so we lit them up with the spot and thought they left...we were wrong....first shots at 6:30 and I was bleeding....the jerks moved in south of us and were 30 yards away......game warden caught them shooting in our direction and had seen us arrive at the spot that morning....those boys had a huge fine to pay and the warden took their hunting licenses.
 
First post. Hi there.

I took an arrow in the leg, does that count? It sure hurt like hell. Luckily (?) it hit the bone and bounced back out. I'm pretty sure that it chipped my shinbone. I couldn't see it hurt so bad, but eventually I got back up and chased the dumb SOB that lobbed it in my direction.

The bullets that were shot at me have missed. I'm still thankful to this day for that. :)

JT
 
Once, back of the thigh, out the front, missed the bone. We were running, felt like someone punched or kicked me really hard on the back of the thigh, and I stumbled and fell, but got back up and ran on, having no idea I'd been hit, until we got to cover, and I went to squat down, and a bad pain, ike a big charlie horse hit me in the leg, and my buddy looked down and yelled for the medic. I still thought he had been hit, until they grabbed me. :o

Funny what adrenaline will do.
 
i havent but my dad has been "not exaclty peppered" from a shot gun by the same guy twice, but different hunting trips. he is one of my dad's best friends but have never hunted together since.
 
sorry i forgot,
i was peppered on opening day of dove season last year by the guys on the property next to where we were hunting. luckily i was wearing a hat and none of the burning hot pieces actually hit my skin or hair.
 
I got hit once with shrapnel from a B-52 strike many, many miles from where I was at. My right arm suddenly jerked sideways real hard and then a strange pain set into place. The jerking action actually hurt because it had so much force behind it. The strange pain was one that I will ALWAYS remember: simultaneously it burned AND hurt. It burned so bad I thought that I was going to wet myself. The shrapnel was still in the wound and it was razor sharp.

Another time a bullet grazed my left arm. It just barely hit the surface of the skin and ripped across the fabric of the shirt on my arm. The best way to describe the sensation I got was imagine somebody hitting your arm with a white hot poker or metal bar. It doesn't go into the skin but it'll leave a raised welt on the skin. One other thing: you can also smell the odor of your skin being burned at the welt point by the speed of the bullet passing over it. Strange.

Both things happened to me when I was in Viet Nam.
 
Rifleman, don't know whether to call you lucky or unlucky. I've seen some shrapnel from Mk 82's. What I could find was bigger than the typical table saw blade and about 1/2" thick with lovely razor sharp jagged edges. I still have a hunk somewhere.
 
Groundhog, the piece of shrapnel that got me really was NOT very big. It was maybe 3 inches long and about an inch wide but it had impact! I've seen some pieces of shrapnel that looked to be size of a lawnmower blade and all sorts of jagged so I know exactly what you mean. The thing was that when I got hit, my arm just sort of flopped away from my body and then I felt two types of pain. One from the cutting and the other was a burning pain from the heat of the shrapnel. I will always remember that incident because until then, I had no idea what guys meant when they got hit with shrapnel about it "burning and hurting." Now I DO understand it but I had to learn about it the hard way.
 
On the steel targets-

I was told in a USPSA RO class that pitted steel would have a tendency to throw splatter back at the shooter. And in my experience, any time splatter has come back and hit me the target was usually pitted pretty bad. And I don't think I've ever had good hard flat steel send anything back.

On the ricochets off reactive steel targets-

From what I understand our county sheriff's range had this happen a year or two ago. A shot fired at a steel target that was falling skipped off and went over the berm and hit a truck in an industrial park nearby.
 
Hit in the foot by an AK and shrapnel from a grenade and field expedient claymore in the back and shoulder, Gotta love Iraq. Didnt notice the bullet or fragments until we called out the ACE reports and were redistributing ammo, then the burning started.
 
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