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Excaliber wrote:

ELB wrote:The linked story says:

A man survived being shot up to 16 times ...

"up to" to me means they don't know, they just think there were 16 shots fired and some of them hit him. I think good chance the actual number of hits might be somewhat lower.

It might also mean that they found 16 holes and aren't sure which are entries and which are exits.

....which would be pretty typical with .22 LR, in which an exit wound looks about like an entrance wound. Also, it can sometimes be difficult to actually find and locate in 3D space any .22 caliber bullets that are still in the body. So you never really know at first whether 16 holes means 8 bullets, 16 bullets, or some combination thereof. I once treated a patient who was shot in the buttocks with a .22 LR, and we could find no exit wound, and no obvious signs of other internal injuries. He was alert and oriented and his vitals were stable, although he was quite a bit butthurt. As he was under arrest at the time, he was transferred to the jail floor at County Hospital. Upon arrival, he took a turn for the worse and he was rushed into a trauma room. There, they finally located the bullet......just under the crown of his skull, where his cerebral hematoma was forming.....hours later.