Anyone ever been shot?

Does it count if they were wearing armor?

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Originally Posted by DavieD55

I've never been shot but i have been told it is like getting hit hard with a hammer without any pain for about a minute or two then the wound starts to burn like it is on fire then comes excruciating pain a few minutes after that.

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That would make sense - the sensation is too overwhelming for the nerves to conduct in the initial shock. Then as blood flow quickly returns/multiplies to the area, they recover and start transmitting. They call it the "gate theory" of pain transmission - the idea that nerve data is like water in a pipe - only so much volume capacity in the pipe going to the brain. It's also why when you instinctively rub or clutch at an injury, it hurts a little less. Too much info going to the brain for all of it to get thru.

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Originally Posted by patrick0685

i believe that this has been covered before

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Link please

Nail gun count. Put a 16d straight in knee and nailed index and middle fingers to a stud. [hammer]

Took a good sized chunk 7.62 in the foot during my second tour in Iraq. The round impacted and fragmented a bit before it hit me. Felt the round penetrate my boot, but no pain was immediately felt. Adrenaline was running pretty high, there was a large volume of incoming enemy fire at the time, and we had already sustained one friendly WIA. I felt the pain a little while later, but it wasn't too bad. I was medevac'd to the CASH in Mosul after the initial surgery to remove the fragment. The pain I had to endure for a month after the fact, the daily cleansing and repacking of the wound, was much worse. Even with morphine. :(

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Been shot at but never hit, got stabbed January 2012, this is from a few days later. Attachment 24451

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Originally Posted by Dingo

That would make sense - the sensation is too overwhelming for the nerves to conduct in the initial shock. Then as blood flow quickly returns/multiplies to the area, they recover and start transmitting. They call it the "gate theory" of pain transmission - the idea that nerve data is like water in a pipe - only so much volume capacity in the pipe going to the brain. It's also why when you instinctively rub or clutch at an injury, it hurts a little less. Too much info going to the brain for all of it to get thru.

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I would guess that it also depends on which part of the body was hit as well. Taking one to the foot with many bones vs taking one to the abdomen fewer bones.

Cut and shot, 9mm. Rather be shot hurts less as time goes on.

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Originally Posted by JMBD2112

Been shot at but never hit, got stabbed January 2012, this is from a few days later. Attachment 24451

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Jeeze care to explain that store

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Originally Posted by kidicarus13

Link please

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sorry my google fu says that the thread was what was the closest you came to being shot not actually shot, my mistake