who's been shot?

[bajabuc]

Besides me... .357 to the calf. 110 grain HP loaded to 1600fps. Thank you ex brotherinlaw.

[Caster]

I don't wanna be a member of this club:leaving:

[ttocswob]

Other than birdshot raining down from above...no.

[Guest Dukebb23]

I've seen a friend of mine get shot with a 22 with rat shot in the calf. He lived but man his leg looked horrible. I hope to never be in this club.

[bajabuc]

I didn't have a choice...I'd rather not be in it either. And it was my own gun...Said the XBIL. "I'll just put it away...the kids might get into it."

There's quite the story about it and the aftermath...if it's got to do with math and me it's a disaster!

Edited May 17, 2011 by bajabuc

[Erik88]

how much damage did that .357 do to your leg?

[bajabuc]

how much damage did that .357 do to your leg?

It blew the entire calf muscle out the bullethole ...disgusting! . The Xrays show a sprial groove running down the tibula, each time the bullet passed between the two bones it chipped the fibula bone so it's got little notches. The bullet fully expanded and shed the jacket along with about 100 tiny lead flakes (they make for an "interesting" Xray.) half the bullet is imbedded in the tibula just before the ankle but behind the achilles tendon. My foot dragged for 5 years.

The gun was in the holster...not cocked...the holster strap was buttoned securely around the cylinder. with the strap fastened I couldn't pull the trigger.

Edited May 17, 2011 by bajabuc
anatomy class

[Garufa]

Got any pics?

[G27]

It blew the entire calf muscle out the bullethole ...disgusting! . The Xrays show a sprial groove running down the femur, each time the bullet passed between the two bones it chipped the fibula bone so it's got little notches. The bullet fully expanded and shed the jacket along with about 100 tiny lead flakes (they make for an "interesting" Xray. half the bullet is imbedded in the femur just before the ankle but behind the achilles tendon. My foot dragged for 5 years.

Do you mean tibia? Unless you have avery unique leg structure, your femur is ~18" from your ankle...

[Seaslug]

It blew the entire calf muscle out the bullethole ...disgusting! . The Xrays show a sprial groove running down the femur, each time the bullet passed between the two bones it chipped the fibula bone so it's got little notches. The bullet fully expanded and shed the jacket along with about 100 tiny lead flakes (they make for an "interesting" Xray. half the bullet is imbedded in the femur just before the ankle but behind the achilles tendon. My foot dragged for 5 years.

Don't mean to get all "orthopedical" on ya', but I think you mean tibia, rather than femur. If your femur really is just above your ankle, then you're either a hobbit, or that bullet did A LOT more damage than you're letting on...

*ETA*: Damn you, crimson...

[bajabuc]

Yeah...I'm old Fibula tibula...like that...them bones. I have a nifty scar but no pice...my kids will tell you that I'm so old they didn't have paintbrushes, let alone having cameras

[bajabuc]

Ok...took pics...I need to load my picture junk...

[bajabuc]

That's one ugly leg!!

[JAB]

Ouch! I was shot in the palm by the neighbor idiot with a BB rifle when I was a kid. Hurt like a SOB - but it just might have hurt less than when mom dug the BB out (it went in then went sideways a little so she had to move it back to the entrance wound then get it out.) That's about my extent of being a member of the 'club' and I hope my membership never, ever advances further.

Edited May 17, 2011 by JAB

[bajabuc]

ya know...it didn't hurt until I was walking out to the truck after getting out of the emergency room. There's a ton more to the story but I don't want to bore ya.

[Dolomite_supafly]

45 ACP with a FMJ.

In at the front of the leg mid shin and out the back.

No real damage other than some nerve damage for about 10 years. Didn't really bleed or anything until the doctors worked on me. Felt like a muscle cramp for a few weeks and looked like a cigar burn a it healed.

And for those of you wondering I didn't know I had been hit for a few minutes. I actually walked around then noticed my foot was going numb. That is when I looked down as say a nice little hole in what I was wearing, again no blood or anything.

Dolomite

[bajabuc]

my nephew passed out when they took off my boot...with the calf muscle out of the skin and the leg in there too it didn't bleed much...until they took off the boot and he hit the floor.

[bajabuc]

The bad part was the 3 more "accidental" discharges of a firearm in my general direction over the next 6 months...with a couple of closecalls. Same brother in law. You do know the number two causes of divorce?

[Caster]

Sounds like you need to have an accidental return fire.

[MacGyver]

The bad part was the 3 more "accidental" discharges of a firearm in my general direction over the next 6 months...with a couple of closecalls. Same brother in law. You do know the number two causes of divorce?

You know what they say about having been married nine times. Maybe it's you. I don't think I'd have gone near that brother-in-law if there was a gun within a 100 meter radius.

I'm sure there's a lot of story.

[iyaoyas98]

Alright, I'll bite. If you got the time to write it, I got the time to read it.......

[Grunt67]

Took 5 hits in 'Nam in '67. two by auto weapons, three by hand grenade schrapnel.

Few more pieces of schrapnel still in there. Spent 16 mos. in Army hospital.

Doc said I'd likely lose the right leg. Still walking around on it. Just hard headed,

I guess. LOL Yes, it hurt like he##!

[Caster]

Took 5 hits in 'Nam in '67. two by auto weapons, three by hand grenade schrapnel.

Few more pieces of schrapnel still in there. Spent 16 mos. in Army hospital.

Doc said I'd likely lose the right leg. Still walking around on it. Just hard headed,

I guess. LOL Yes, it hurt like he##!

Well, I'm guessing you didn't appreciate that, but I do. Thank you, even though I was yet to be born, I appreciate you doing it along with all the other vets out there.

[bajabuc]

We were working in Billings Montana. (I did steel siding for a lot of years) I had bought a travel trailer because motel rooms were expensive. My brother in law had his 18 year old nephew and 15 year old niece working on the crew. The niece and my brother in law were staying in a motel "I don't want her exposed to funny uncles." A double bed room. Well...I didn't see them getting up one morning so I banged on the door and walked in on them in the same bed. Didn't even cross my mind what you're thinking right now. Gene came over to the trailer. My gun was on the bed..M29 Highwaypatrolman .357. He picked it up and stuck his finger in the trigger guard. As he was bringing it down across my body he was pulling the trigger. Of course I didn't think a thing of it until it went off. I grabbed him and said, "Gene, I don't know what I did to make you mad but don't shoot me again." Well...suddenly it's a big accident and he's sorry and all that...When he realized I still had my leg we went to the hospital...(what I didn't know was he thought I knew he was sleeping with his daughter...he was and had been for years.. he was afraid I was going to tell his wife.) I didn't suspect a thing. He was trying to make it look like an accident, but the cylinder strap held the cylinder too tight and it didn't go off until it was at my leg. Ok...we're walking out of the hospital...Gene and Kim had gone back to the trailer and picked up the daughter and a mattress and sleepingbag. We headed for home. Hey...it's August 1976 and hot as billy blue blazes. I unzipped the sleeping bag and flopped it off me. The doc had cut my BRAND NEW LEVIS right up the seam...I fell asleep...here's the funny part..I got sunburnt...from the bullethole all the way to my hip..flaming red sunburnt. The doc in Billings told me to see the doc in Sheridan...he saw the red streak and thought I had blood posioning and stuck me in the hospital for 5 days...IV's and all that...then he went camping for a week. He got back...the sunburn had tanned...I explained...he sent me home...where my daughter grabbed my leg ...I reacted just like you think and my wife sent me to the bighorn mountains with her brother... Where I got charged by a moose and shot it...had to go to court...off on selfdefense from a wild animal. After the ordeal, my brother in law decided he wanted to go back home and was unloading my trailer so he could "borrow" it. He decided he couldn't take his Dan Wesson back to MI so he sold it to my pastor. It was in the trailer. He stepped out of the door with his hand on the trigger...BLAM! Right across my shoulder without hitting me. Went across the street through the neighbors garage door, hit a can of WD40 through the back wall and through several sheets drying on the clothesline...but wait...there's more...I'll be back

Edited May 17, 2011 by bajabuc

[Garufa]

Are you sure you're not from Tennessee?

That's one helluva story!