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The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:12 am Also... this video, which is instructive for other reasons, also briefly covers blast damage from contact range gunshots:

srothstein wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:30 am

surferdaddy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:33 amI will say this, that the reliability of a revolver is extremely comforting to me.

I have always thought that the difference between a pistol and a revolver, in terms of reliability, is that a pistol may jam every so often while you are shooting, but you can clear the jam right away with proper action and keep shooting. A revolver doesn't jam anywhere nearly as often but when it does, you need a gunsmith to fix it.

There is the added advantage that if a revolver doesn't fire, you can keep squeezing the trigger to try the next rounds. You cannot do that with a pistol.

J.R.@A&M wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:11 am Perhaps contributing to Oswald's demise from Jacky Ruby's snub 38? Else it was a very fatal bullet trajectory through Oswald's abdomen.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1963/11/24 ... 204553842/

ELB wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:27 am

Excaliber wrote: ↑Sun Mar 28, 2021 7:06 am

surferdaddy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:48 pm

Excaliber wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:16 am This article should answer the question.

So the residual blast can be fatal by itself it would seem. Craziness. Didn’t Brandon Lee die from blanks somehow?

No, Bruce Lee reportedly died from an allergic reaction to a painkiller he had taken for headaches.

Surferdaddy is asking about Bruce Lee’s son Brandon, who did die from an accident involving blanks.

However it wasnt the gasses from the blank tha killed him, at least not directly. As I remember reading it years ago, The Crow was a low budget ptoduction. At one point the prop master manufacture dummy rounds for a revolver out of live rounds by pulling the bullets, emptying the powder, then replacing the bullets into the cases. The cases may have retained their primers.

The handmade dummy bullets were used in a revolver in a scene Where are the revolver was seen close up and needed to look like it was loaded.. Somehow one of the bullets came loose and lodged in the barrel – – I’ve read two accounts, one that somebody actually pulled the trigger and the primer drove the bullet into the barrel, And another account where the bullet (or the tip broke off) simply came loose and stuck in the barrel.

The revolver was set aside for a couple weeks without being properly cleared, and then used in a scene where Brandon Lee walks through a doorway to a shot by an opponent. The same revolver was used for this scene and loaded with blanks. When it was fired the movie blood squib on Bruce Lee exploded and he fell down as directed, so no one realized immediately that he had actually been shot with a .44 bullet, or at least a piece of one. When they realized he was really shot they rushed him to the hospital but surgeons were not able to save him.

Excaliber wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:16 am This article should answer the question.

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:46 pm Worked a suicide were the guy laid is head on the muzzle of a 30-30 and that was a mess, the selfishness of doing this where your family finds you is unbelievable! That will be their last image of them!

ELB wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:02 pm I have seen some autopsy photos of close-or-contact range shots that injected hot gasses into the subject. It did indeed make a mess, far more than the bullet itself would have done. Particularly dramatic is sticking a shotgun in the mouth and firing. Yechh.