A friend of mine shot burglar in the face at close range with a .357, and the guy ran away and flagged down a bus to get to the hospital (police came and got him there).
Apparently, the jaw is like the densest bone in the body, and was able to deflect the round.
Guessing it wasn’t a hydroshock bullet.
An individual got on an elevator that I was riding in and I noticed that he had been shot right in his forehead. I was at a loss for words, but since I worked at the hospital, I told him he really should see a Doctor in the ER about that. Apparently he had been shot in an armed robbery (he was the robber), and his brother had been transported to the hospital. He was looking for him, I guess to let him know that he was “OK”. The brother died without ever regaining consciousness, and I don’t know if he ever made it or not. Headshots are a strange thing and are not always instantly fatal.
see: Fargo
Years ago, there were break ins around where my buddy owned a cabin. Mostly fishing, camping gear. Couple of guys across the road had been broken into too.
They were at their cabin and had left to go to town and when they came back, someone had broken in. They figured the robber was close so they started looking for him in the timber and they found his camp with a tent made out of a tarp.
The homeless guy pulled out a .22 and told them to drop on their knees. One of the guys had a .38 in the small of his back and when he dropped to his knees, he grabbed the gun and unloaded on the guy.
He told us later that after he unloaded, he was still pulling the trigger because of the adrenaline. And no, the homeless guy did not survive.