Have you ever been shot?

[Guest jackdm3]

Have you ever been shot and would you care to tell us about it?

[Guest Drewsett]

I've been shot AT before...but never hit *knocks on wood*

It's pretty freaking scary, that's about all I know.

[Guest jackdm3]

That's a good start. For the discussion I mean.

[Guest proudsuthrner]

like Drewsett said.. i too have been shot at but not hit (thank God) i do know that it is an adreniline(sp?) rush. i have a few buddies that were shot while we were in iraq a few years ago. i was told that it burns but thats all i know.

[Raoul]

Only shot at. During a home invasion in 1977.

[MacGyver]

Shot at a few times over the years on jobs/cases that headed south. Fortunately, I've never been hit.

There's nothing that gets your attention like hearing rounds going by and realizing that someone is trying to kill you. All I can say is that it is completely dreadful, and yet you don't really realize it for that at the time.

[Westwindmike]

Shot at while on duty as a police officer before the bullet resistant vest was in use.

[Guest mustangdave]

only with a needle...

[peejman]

I got peppered with bird shot unintentionally while playing golf several years ago. Some morons were dove hunting adjacent to the course and not paying attention what direction they were shooting. It happened 3 times before I got out of range. I called the police and reported it, but I'm fairly sure nothing happened.

[BryanG]

Shot at (Desert Storm, Somalia, Iraq). Exciting.

However, back when I was a teenaged Reservist (before Active Duty career), I was drinking with a buddy and we were emptying the powder out of blank 7.62 (M60) rounds. Don't ask me why. We were drinking I said. My buddy was in college ROTC at that time (he later enlisted in Active Duty) and stated that he had lugged these belted blank rounds on their little field training exercises, but had never fired any. Didn't even know what they sounded like.

Those immortal (dumb-ass) words escaped my mouth: "Check this out!"

I took a blank round in a pair of pliers and struck the end with a wrench.

"POW!!"

My ears were ringing loudly, and my hand stung like a son of a bitch. Shrapnel and powder burn. Found what remained of the exploded round about 15 feet away.

Emergency room tech commented that it almost looked like a shrapnel wound when he cleaned it up (I had told him I was goofing around and slipped in some gravel).

Have carried a nifty little scar on my left hand and knuckle for the last 28 years as a reminder of what a dumb-ass I was!

[Guest jackdm3]

Takes the prize so far. Not sure which category, though.

[Will]

Yes,but it could have been a whole lot worse. About 12 yrs old we snuck .22 rifle out

of house and about five miles down railroad tracks buddy spots a shed door on hill with master lock still locked on hinge and before I could say don't he puts bbl next

to lock and fires. It works for The Duke but for me slug broke in three in came back

and hit me in chest. Felt like a baseball bat,looked down and white T Shirt was

already soaked in blood,sure I was a goner an hour walk from anywhere. Got

back to the house and felt fine,ditched the shirt and never said a word because

the old man would have been another story. Very careful who I hunted or target

shot with after that.

[Guest Arko]

Yup. But it wasn't aimed for me. wrong place, wrong time. Took one obliquely to the left chest. Entered pectoral at sternum, exited at delt/pec. Very lucky it wasn't direct.

And yes, it hurt like hell and bled like stink. Found out later it was a .38 wadcutter.

[Guest coldblackwind]

Had a squirrel hunting buddy get mixed up about where I was, and sent a few .22's past my head. I didn't get hit, but it sure got my attention.

[Guest Bonedaddy]

When I was a kid, my friend laid a .22lr on a brick and chopped it with a hatchett. 2 pieces of the casing hit me-one center of the chest and one split the center part of my right nipple in half. We didn't do that anymore. A little later, 2 friends around the block did the same thing. Sam only sees outta one eye now. They don't do that anymore, either.

[Raoul]

Shot at (Desert Storm, Somalia, Iraq).Those immortal (dumb-ass) words escaped my mouth: "Check this out!"

I took a blank round in a pair of pliers and struck the end with a wrench.

"POW!!"

You sir are an honorary hillbilly. Repeat after me "Watchiss"

[Chief07]

Never shot but shot at. Beruit in 84.My eyes got real big.The hair stood up on the back of my neck.And my butt hole puckered up real fast.Don't want to expericnce it ever again.

[Guest clownsdd]

Yes, enough said.

[DavidH1]

When I was young I caught some rock salt in the backside, that really really burned. It may of had something to do with a tow-sack and some sweetcorn:p

[brooksjr]

Shot at in Murfreesboro behind Stones River mall about 12-13 years ago. The "gangsta" that did it was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon times 3. I guess he didn't figure I would chase his ass down. Can't say I was scared because it all happened so fast but I sure as hell don't want it to happen again.

[rentalguy1]

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Edited January 27, 2010 by rentalguy1

[Alleycat72]

Yes. shot at more than once. Hit once. I typed the whole story, but deleted it. I have never heard anyone adequately explain the sensation. Red hot sledge hammer is the closest, but not entirely correct.

Edited January 27, 2010 by alleycat72

[Guest Ae-35]

Shot at twice, both times they missed, I didn't, or I wouldn't be here.

Edited January 27, 2010 by Ae-35

[Guest ScottD]

Rock salt to the shins when my friend as a kid decided to shoot a turtle shell, and falling bird shot @ a dove hunt.

[Punisher84]

Shot at once due to a bad decision of going out with a bad friend. Missed, hit his truck, last time we hung out.

Have thought I was gonna get shot several times at work. I'd like to keep the track record of only thinking going *knock on wood*

I have been stabbed. Butterfly knife to my upper right leg. That hurt pretty good. 8 stitches and a goofy lookin scar.