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Amazing fact #138
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RWL wrote: Robert Heinbaugh of Plainsville, Ohio, has the distinction of being the first person in the world to be shot by a lawn mower... As he cut the grass one evening, he ran over a live bullet which went off and shot him in the foot. It made for a good newspaper headline, but it's far fetched. If the slug lodged in his foot, it was probably flung there by the mower blade. When a bullet is "fired" outside a firearm, the bullet, being heavier doesn't go very far. The shell case, being lighter flys farther and at a higher speed. I don't have the reference handy at the moment, but my recollection was that the experiments documenting this were done by the miilitary using 30-06 ammunition. RWL You are absolutely correct. As noted by Vince DiMaio in "Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques": None of these missiles, however, is dangerous to life under ordinary circumstances. The bullet in fact is probably the most harmless of all these missiles because with its relatively great mass it will have little velocity. Fragments of brass and primer are the only components of an exploding round that have sufficient velocity to cause injury. These fragments can penetrate the skin or eye if the individual is very close to the exploding cartridge. With the exception of the eye, however, no serious injury should occur, and certainly no mortal wound... Note that small probabilities mean odd things will happen on rare occasion. I have seen a case of a teenager who was, as I remember, hitting .22 cal rimfire cartridges with a hammer. A small sliver of brass penetrated his neck and made a small laceration in the external carotid artery. He probably would have lived had he sought help, but instead simply covered up the wound with a Band-Aid and went to bed... billo |
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