Have you ever been shot?

[Rain Man]

The thread about the Minnesota guy makes me curious.

In the movies, we see guys take multiple shots and they're still limping around returning fire, and in the next scene they're fine again.

In real life, I know one guy who shot himself in the foot while climbing a fence, and he said that it really, really hurt and he expressed skepticism about the movie people limping around returning fire. However, he wasn't in a fight for his life, so it's possible that his adrenaline wasn't running on overdrive.

So has anyone here been shot? And how did you feel in the first five minutes? First five hours? Next day? I recognize that the outcome may be different if you're shot in different parts of the body, so please note the location of the gunshot if you have a story to tell. Caliber too, if known.

I made the poll multiple choice for those of you who have been shot multiple times.

For the record, I got shot by an arrow once, but it just grazed me. Other than a scrape, I had no problem and could have easily mounted a counterattack had I chosen to do so.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Laz

hit with bat ... check
stabbed ........ check
shot ............. check

Understandable.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Motionless, eyes wide open but never said a word. When she wouldnt answer me I thought she was dead, I freaked out grabbed my shit and went outside, where I put my pants on. A neighbor came up and I asked them to call 911

So you didn't finish.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by Donger

So you didn't finish.

Yup I just jumped right back up there and shoved it back in what I thought was her dead hole.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Yup I just jumped right back up there and shoved it back in what I thought was her dead hole.

That was a joke.

[Chief Roundup]

Originally Posted by Donger

That was a joke.

I know. I was playing along. With a note that that joke, however funny it might be, was just not right.

Or at least that was what I was trying to convey.

[frazod]

I haven't, but my dad and uncle were both shot. My dad was shot by one of his friends who was playing with a loaded .22 revolver. Dad tried to tell the guy that the gun was loaded but he didn't listen - shot him just below his left collar bone. This happened when my mom was pregnant with me. By all accounts, she was not amused.

My uncle got shot when he got in a bar fight when he was in the Navy. The guy shot him in the lower abdomen with a small pistol. After getting shot, my uncle nearly beat the guy to death and got thrown in jail for assault. It was only after he continued to bleed profusely in his cell that they realized what had happened.

I'm assuming alcohol was involved in both instances. But when a guy who can show you a bullet wound tells you to be careful with guns, you do listen a bit more intently.

[Graystoke]

I was lucky that day.
When Trap Shooting with some friends. My friend lays down his shotgun on the range table, and it went off.
I had my Favorite Willie Nelson shirt on and it was to big, cause I am a small guy. I was sorta bent over when the gun went off. It was directed towards my torso, but all I ended up was getting a very bad flesh wound.
However the Willie Nelson shirt was shreded.

My Mom woulda killed my friend if he killed me. That was the summer I lost my only brother in a car accident. I never told her and I still got that shreded shirt

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Yes I have been shot in the head if a graze counts. Got me just enough to tear and burn the hair and skin on the top right side of my head.
I was 23 years old at the time. I was a pretty big man whore. Anyway there was a chic that I worked with that was attractive. One thing lead to another and we ended up at her place and before you know it we are in the bed going at it. Next thing I know is I hear this click, click, click sound, the hammer being pulled back on a .38 revolver, I see the look on her face and realize it is her husband. Yes I knew she was married. He put the barrel against my head and as soon as I moved he shot. That was the last time I have ever had sex with a married woman.

Guns don't kill people, husbands coming home early do.

[Iowanian]

I've never shot anyone that didn't have it coming.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Laz

hit with bat ... check
stabbed ........ check
shot ............. check

I hope you learned to never go into a Denny's at 3 a.m. again.

[Hog Farmer]

Got shot right in the ****ing eye yesterday ! TWICE!

[Radar Chief]

Used to work with a guy that shot himself in the calf with a 9mm and he said that hurt like a son-of-a-bitch, he couldn’t even hobble around on it. Some friends got him to the hospital <7 minutes from the gun shot and he almost bled out in that time.
New a different guy that got shot in the calf with a .22, someone playing around with a rifle that shouldn’t have been holding one, and he said he wasn’t even going to go to the hospital over it until the bullet hole started leaking again an hour later.
Caliber makes a huge difference.

[Iowanian]

It amazes me when I think about how many people I know who have been shot.


The general consensus I have taken from them is that getting shot feels like having a red hot railroad spike pounded through your body with a ball bat.

[notorious]

A friend of mine (who passed away years ago) got shot by his dog.

[scott free]

Nope, but i had a guy put a loaded snubnose .38 to my head for several minutes.

Time freezes.