Caliber wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 1:01 pm
Not unusual at all. The only shot to instantly stop the BG is to hit the computer (head). Otherwise, if you hit some major pipes, bleed out/blood pressure drop can take up to two minutes. People in really good physical shape can take a hit in the heart and still be active for several minutes. I learned this info from a two-day class with Steve Tarani.
I have personally had a fairly extended conversation with someone who’d been shot right through his heart with a 9mm FMJ. He would have died eventually as he was experiencing a cardiac tamponade, and he was experiencing some pain and a little shortness of breath, but he was still conscious, alert, and oriented when we wheeled him into the OR, pretty close to an hour after he’d been shot. He and his partner in crime had attempted to hold up a liquor store a few blocks from our hospital, and the clerk had other ideas about how it was going to play out. The first guy had been hit twice—heart and upper arm (broken upper humerus bone). His partner was hit once, but the bullet broke both of his wrists, and hit his pectoral muscle, stopping against a rib. I helped remove that bullet from his chest for the forensics lab. So even FMJ won’t necessarily do a complete pass-through. It depends on what it hits along the wound channel.