How much damage would a .22 bullet from a small handgun do from about six feet away? Is that doable with a small gun and .22 shells? What would happen to the person who got shot? I'm guessing they wouldn't die instantly.
I had a cousin, her son was cleaning his .22 caliber pistol in the living room. He held it up and pointed it at her at about 6 feet away and stated, “You know, I could shoot you right now”, he then proceeded to pull the trigger on a gun that he thought was unloaded. The gun went off, the bullet struck my cousin in the chest, it missed any ribs, but went through her chest cavity, through the lung and lodged into her backbone. She was instantly paralyzed from that point down, she slumped over on the couch where she was sitting and had enough time to say good bye to her family and tell her son that she loved him before she drowned on her own blood.Just one story to illustrate the deadliness of the often maligned .22 caliber cartridge.
Would your hand stop a bullet from hitting you in the head and killing you?
Bullet strikes to the head with low velocity round nosed ammo does funny things when it hits bone. Back in the 50’s a girl was shot in the head 5 time with a 25 automatic and all she needed were a few bullets removed from under the skin few stitches, a Tetanus shot and something for the headache. The bullets had all gone around the out side of the skull. Round nosed 38 Specials can do the same thing. Before hollow points were commonly used Wad Cutters and Keith hard cast bullets were commonly used. Les Coffelt took one shot before he fell to died 4 hours laster taking a 20 yard shot putting a 38 Special wad-cutter 2 inches above Griselio Torresola a Puerto Rican assassins ear ending the assassination attempt on President Truman on a warm (84 f) afternoon on November 1, 1950 in a gun fight that lasted less than 3 minutes starting a 2:25 pm. At 3:00 p.m. that day President Truman dedicated a statue honoring Sir John Dill at Arlington. He did not change his presidential calendar. After gunfight in view of an open window where the President was trying t take a nap.
What does it feel like to be shot?
It depends a) where you’re shot, b) what you’ve been shot with, and c) how you’ve been shot.I drove cab for over 25 years, and was once shot in the abdomen with a .45 snub-nose revolver. I was stabbed in various places a number of times with different implements, too, but that’s another story.It was like being punched in the gut by a huge motherfucker and having the wind knocked out of you for a solid month. There was something purplish hanging out of my belly, which turned out to be part of my liver. The bullet was a hollowpoint and had done a lot of damage- just about blew my liver out.The pain was excruciating and unbelievable. I just wanted to die and get it over with. I was told later that I was very lucky, because the bottom of my liver had been blown out but would grow back. A few inches higher, the doctors told me, and that would have been it.To make matters worse, after getting several doses of morphine, it was discovered that I was allergic. It wasn’t killing the pain, and it was giving me a red rash, making me itch all over. Whee.The doctor switched me to Demerol, and that’s about the last thing I remember from that night.The following months were a Demerol-induced haze in which people came to visit me in hospital, but I was too out of it to remember. I was hooked up to an automatic painkiller gizmo that allowed me to self-medicate up to a point.When the pain started subsiding, my belly where I’d been shot started to cramp, which led to more excruciating pain. I had a belly full of staples where I’d been opened up in order to retrieve pieces of bullet. My stomach felt really strange, and the reason turned out to be that the doctors had cut my stomach in half to get it out of the way when they were doing surgery on my liver. My gall bladder was gone, and my pancreas was a mess, resulting in diabetes.Bottom line? Don’t try this at home, kids.
Will a 9mm shot to the head kill me?
Well, that depends on which 9mm you are talking about, and where in the head it goes through. Your body can survive surprising things, there was a man named Phineas Gage that survived having a tamping steel blasted through his head, entering his left cheek and exiting towards the front/center of the top of his head. That rod was likley at least 16mm in diameter.SO i will answer this assuming you mean the common 9mm pistol round, 9x19mm, or 9 luger/9 nato. If you took a 9mm round square in the forehead, yeah, you are more than likely dead. It’s a quick round, it would punch straight through your skull and shred all the brain matter it comes in contact with.Now, it is also very possible to survive a 9mm to the head. If the shot lands in a way that it passes through non-vital parts of your brain, like Mr Gage, and you get treatment quickly, then you could easily survive.The angle the round strikes you at also matter in weather or not it even penetrates your skull. If it is a glancing blow to the forehead, and a sharp angle, there is a chance the round could ricochet of your skull and leave your largely un-injured aside from surface wounds.The short answer to your question is “probably” but there are alot of factors that go into determining chances of survival.