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How Bad is Getting Shot at Point Blank Range?
Am Shooting Journal ^ | 3/27/2017 | GY6

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.



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To: fella

I worked in the ER when a woman was brought in for gsw in the neck with a .38 in her neck. The bullet whizzed around in her chest severing her pulmonary vein/artery. We couldn’t pour blood in fast enough to keep her alive long enough to do surgery. She was shot from about 4 feet away.

She had no idea she had been shot.


21 posted on 03/27/2017 11:33:14 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Mr. K
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?

The latter. Your flesh is softer than a steel gun barrel, so the muzzle blast will go inside you, causing more damage than if just the bullet went in. It happens frequently in street crime.

Patterns of Tissue Injury

22 posted on 03/27/2017 11:44:30 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: castlegreyskull

She was lucky to be a liberal that day. The bullet hit her brain instead of damaging an organ that she had ever used.


23 posted on 03/27/2017 3:30:27 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: gr8eman
The bullet accelerates at a rate until it reaches max velocity.

I believe it hits maximum velocity at the muzzle or at most a few inches beyond the muzzle.

24 posted on 03/27/2017 3:31:36 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: CopperTop

Yeah, I surmised they really meant “close contact” or equivalent...

Thanks for defining “point blank” for the author...Words do indeed have meaning...


25 posted on 03/27/2017 4:26:29 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: w1n1

“Would you be able to take any of these shots holding up”

???


26 posted on 03/28/2017 6:19:43 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: TexasGator

I don’t recommend it. Even with a vest it hurts like a MoFo.


27 posted on 03/28/2017 6:28:48 AM PDT by WhirlwindAttack (We need to start drinking out of the skulls of our enemies again. Dims, Slimes, Rinos, F em all)
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To: gr8eman

“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. “

Please explain how a bullet accelerates after leaving the barrel ...


28 posted on 03/28/2017 8:23:47 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Cobra64

“Why post this crap?’

Clicks ...


29 posted on 03/28/2017 8:24:14 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: PLMerite

Good thing, that wikipedia, the open sourced bastion of (sic) knowledge!

In real ballistics and terminal performance there is an actual definition, not common usage by the television experts. Words have meaning.


30 posted on 03/28/2017 5:13:56 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: TexasGator

I would like to hear the apparent exception to the laws of conservation of energy....

Even if the “jet” effect of propellant gases exiting behind a bullet at the moment it exits the muzzle exerts some additional force to the bullet ( which I personally doubt), the forces of drag begin at that exact moment too, so external forces demand deceleration from then on.


31 posted on 03/28/2017 5:21:33 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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To: Manly Warrior

Ask gr8


32 posted on 03/28/2017 5:24:40 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Manly Warrior

“In real ballistics and terminal performance there is an actual definition, not common usage by the television experts. Words have meaning.”

True, but if everyone else goes by the popular definition, you just have to roll with it.


33 posted on 03/28/2017 6:57:37 PM PDT by PLMerite (Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
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To: PLMerite

Only if you want to perpetuate the error....

Clip- Magazine, yeah, most folks get the meaning, but that still is an error of fact, Just like “Pump action semi automatic” weapon.

No more from me on this topic. Folks can choose to be ill informed and “go with the flow” if they want, but words and terms still matter. Ask any Judge or Trial Attorney, or ballistician or (real) scientist....

Regards;


34 posted on 03/29/2017 8:39:51 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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