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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Yeah, in the movies the hero always gets shot in the thigh and do just fine other than a little limping, but I guess they never get shot in the femoral artery.
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The thigh is a shitty place to get shot, besides the femoral, the thigh bone cares some of the greatest loads/impacts of any one bone in the body. If an adult suffers a break (like a bullet hitting it) it's quite possible they'd have walking problems for life.
On this same topic, heroes get shot in the shoulder in movies too and there is both the artery that serves the arms (not small) and a large nerve bundle. There's also bones which have a good way of re-directing hand gun bullets into other stuff which doesn't like bullet holes.