Getting Shot At Point Blank Range…How bad is it? Clearly, we all know being shot in any way isn’t a good thing lol! Posted on 03/27/2017 7:01:29 AM PDT by w1n1
Getting Shot At Point Blank Range…How bad is it? Clearly, we all know being shot in any way isn’t a good thing lol!
Have you wondered what it looks like to get shot at point blank range? If you’ve invested much energy around firearms, the idea most likely has gone through your head. And if you are one of those people who really need to know "What's the most terrible that could happen?" todays is the day to find out. Might you be able to survive any of these shots? Possibly. Would you be able to take any of these shots holding up? Probably not.
“I’m a messenger on broad topics.”
Really?
12 gauge at close range = death.
A Fort Drum soldier was shot through the chest with a .50 cal round back in the late 1980s or early ‘90s. He was doing maintenance on a mounted weapon and didn’t follow procedures.
I know he lived long enough to be airlifted to a Syracuse hospital (about 80 miles). I don’t know his long-term outcome, but my recollection is he survived.
We’re stuck with this uh... stuff, it would appear.
My daughter was shot last year at about six feet. She died on the OR table, but they revived her. She lost a major component of her immune system. She has terror filled nightmares, suicidal thoughts, high anxiety and absolute fear.
Unfortunately, she has returned to drugs, which is why she was shot in the first place. It was a drug/ cash robbery.
Words mean things, Ms Clinton. Hehehe. d;^)
Agreed. Anyone who survives a hit in the upper body from a 12 gauge, or even a 20 gauge with either slugs or buck shot is a very lucky person. At point blank range even bird shot is a single mass. My Mossberg 500 folder stays by the bed loaded with #2 shot most of the time. Good for 2 legged predators inside the house, or 4 legged ones outside here on the farm. And some with no legs, a copperhead snake that decided my yard was a good place to reside got a sample of those #2’s a couple of days ago.
Ask Gabby Giffords. Then again, I wonder if that incident was a false flag.
Btt
Ask Lee Harvey Oswald.
Although most people think it’s worse getting shot at close range than from afar, physics says otherwise. The bullet accelerates at a rate until it reaches max velocity. At close range it is not at max velocity. Now maybe it will hurt you worse at close range, like a 22 slug bouncing around inside you versus it going straight through you, but the answer IMO is where it hits you is the most important part!
This is incorrect usage of the term “point blank.”
Actually, “point blank” is a distance between which the rise and fall of a bullet does not exceed some certain specified vertical dimension. For example, “PB range of a 30/06 150 grain bullet at 2900 fps on a 6 inch target is 0- 320 yards when sited to hit 1.5 inches high at 100 yds”. The meaning is that the bullet will hit the target somewhere between the top and bottom any where within this range.
You mean “close quarters” or “contact” ranges in your posting.
Terms matter.
Per wiki:
“In popular usage, point-blank range has come to mean extremely close “can’t miss” range with a firearm, within four feet of its muzzle at moment of discharge yet not close enough to be a contact shot.[1]”
There is no reason to expect that a bullet will continue to accelerate after it leaves the barrel.
LOL!! Copperhead-burger! ...and I thought the little single-shot .410 -- that I got for my 11th birthday -- with 3" #7-1/2s -- made a mess of copperheads... '-)
If the gun is in contact with your skin would the barrel explode because it was blocked?
Or would the gases expanding outward (into your skin) blow up your innards like a balloon?
Inquiring minds want to know...
A lot more shockwave plus powder burns.
Why post this crap?
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