".22 bullets (LR) are the most deadly because they rattle around bouncing off bone and stuff that they do more damage."
This is becoming more rampant.
This is becoming more rampant.
I've heard this too much...
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I have even heard of them bouncing off someone's head. There was an incident where man shot his neighbor in the mouth and the neighbor spit the 22 bullet out. Tore his jaw up a little bit.
I wouldn't expect anything less. That puppy is about 40 gr (that's grams) and 3"- 4" long, 'n sometimes it even wraps around a bone. And it twists up too by the rifling in the gun.
That's why it's called 22 "long rifle"
Terrible thing, that. That's why no armies use it - outlawed by the Treaty of Paris or something.
OP
Sounds like...
That sounds like a tough guy movie.
I heard about a guy that was shot and sometime later sneezed the bullet out of his nose.
That sounds like a tough guy movie.
I heard about a guy that was shot and sometime later sneezed the bullet out of his nose.
That sounds like a tough guy movie.
I heard about a guy that was shot and sometime later sneezed the bullet out of his nose.
I knew a guy that was shot with a 25 auto. When he found out about it later, he was really mad!
I've heard and read a lot of stories and "tall tales???" of what bullets can do or not do in a living body, man or animal. Only wounds I have seen in person are animals I have shot in the honorable pastime of hunting them. From what I've seen while skinning and processing them, from squirrels with a .22 to deer and hogs with a center fire rifle or, my favorite, a 12 gauge slug, I for sure don't want to be hit with any bullet. (or arrow)
I know, but "gr" stands for "grams", right? ;>)
susieqz
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well, what does happen when you shoot someone in the head, thru the eye or someplace else the bone is thin?
does it bounce off the back of the skull, or not?
i heard that story in connection to mafia hit men.
i don't know if they really use 22s n if they do, i don't know why.
i do know this.
at 3', out of a 5 1/2'' barrel, a 22 will pass thru 2 2x4s n the heel is buried 1/4'' from the surface of the third.
22s have great penetration, because my 38 does exactly the same, but out of a 4'' barrel.
does it bounce off the back of the skull, or not?
i heard that story in connection to mafia hit men.
i don't know if they really use 22s n if they do, i don't know why.
i do know this.
at 3', out of a 5 1/2'' barrel, a 22 will pass thru 2 2x4s n the heel is buried 1/4'' from the surface of the third.
22s have great penetration, because my 38 does exactly the same, but out of a 4'' barrel.
OP
Yeah, that and....
That and stories about the M-16 having a .22 bullet and descriptions of how it behaves when someone is shot. There is a just a little bit of difference between a .22 lr and a military 5.56 round.
That and stories about the M-16 having a .22 bullet and descriptions of how it behaves when someone is shot. There is a just a little bit of difference between a .22 lr and a military 5.56 round.
A few thousand FPS can make a LOT of difference. Can we say a real mess?
I know a fellow from work who got shot, in the arm, with a 22 by a mugger. I don't know how much it bounced around, but he said it HURT like "blue blazes" to keep it forum friendly.
He was a big fellow, 6', 250 or so. He said he screamed and cried like a little girl it hurt so bad.
Now, when I originally heard the "22's bounce around" line many years ago, it was attributed to an ER physician somewhere. Supposedly it was supposed to be a real bear to search out all the places the bullet damaged. Maybe the bullet is so small, and so light, it's easily turned off course. Maybe it breaks apart. Maybe some combination of those,and others factors.
He was a big fellow, 6', 250 or so. He said he screamed and cried like a little girl it hurt so bad.
Now, when I originally heard the "22's bounce around" line many years ago, it was attributed to an ER physician somewhere. Supposedly it was supposed to be a real bear to search out all the places the bullet damaged. Maybe the bullet is so small, and so light, it's easily turned off course. Maybe it breaks apart. Maybe some combination of those,and others factors.
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ACORN
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Guy I went through high-school with was shot in the head with a .25 acp. The bullet never penetrated his skull, but traveled under his skin to the top of his head.
I remember reading a story about the attempt to assassinate president
Truman. A secret service agent shot one of the perps with his Detective
Special with .38 Spl. RNL. It hit that bump right at the top of the forehead
and kinda scraped on across his skull. I think that's when they started
looking for some better kind of ammo.
Truman. A secret service agent shot one of the perps with his Detective
Special with .38 Spl. RNL. It hit that bump right at the top of the forehead
and kinda scraped on across his skull. I think that's when they started
looking for some better kind of ammo.
"GR," when discussing bullet weight, is "grain . . . "
Well, I can tell you from personal experience investigating homicides, two of them were done with .22's. One was a head shot which did in fact bounce around in the skull a bit, the other was a torso shot that bounced around and lacerated almost every vital organ. Bled out internally with very little external signs of blood or damage.
I have two “war” stories from my LEO days. First was a lady whose boyfriend shot her in the head, round bounced off, and she was standing on the corner waiting for us to get there, holding a towel to her wound. Next was a huge guy that was laying dead in his front yard following a confrontation. When we arrived nobody was talking and we could not find a wound on him anywhere. In the morgue we found a small .22 entry wound in his armpit covered by the hair, almost no blood, and the round pierced his heart.
chaparrito
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I'm ok with letting the bad guys think that.
PPS1980
Member
Mossad, modified Ruger MKI & MKII, suppressed, single shot, base of the skull.
