anyone here ever been shot?

Elvis · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:22 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

no bullet holes in me yet...long may it stay that way..
plenty of knife scars..all self inflicted unintentionally...SWMBO said enough is enough the other week so I finnally have a steel mesh glove,there endith problem.

Tremblay · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:47 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

slimjim wrote:

All in the last 10 years, Tremblay?

No Slimjim it was 50 some years ago ..

radar · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

Been Policing for 28 years now in NZ - seen plenty of people shot either by themselves or others, I’ve come close to pulling the trigger myself 3 times and I’m talking microseconds.
Had a gang member, unbeknownst to me, with a pump action 12 G in a car whilst I ticketted his missus - I knew things weren’t kosher but did my bit and off they went. He was in the ‘armed and dangerous’ category and wasn’t to be approached without SWAT - no one told me!!!
Anyway he got arrested 3 days later so I went and had a yarn with him in the cells, he stated - yep I had that gun on my lap, I asked why didn’t you use it .....his answer: you were fair to my missus........ never forgotten that experience and learning

slimjim · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 5:31 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

I even got chills from that one, radar.

Too many shootings in the news the past 3 days. The Tree of Life made National News along with a bullying incident that ended in a school shooting. But there also was an armed father at a McDonalds in Alabama on Saturday with his son when a masked gunman entered the store and open fire. He stopped the gunman but he and his son were wounded.

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Goron_308 · Rookie Member Joined: Oct 31, 2018 Posts: 5

I haven't been punctured myself, but I've been shot at repeatedly when I was in the Belgian army from 2004 to 2008, as I did two 6-month tours to Afghanistan, in 2005 and 2008. Fortunately, most of these were either potshots taken from half a mile away or random mortar attacks and nobody got seriously hurt... The main issue was with IEDs though, these were the big danger for us even if we were in a relatively calm region.
What I remember is that I didn't even have the time to be afraid, as the main goal was to return fire immediately! However, I'd then be scared shitless for a couple nights later on...

BigBlue · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:32 pm Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

I've been shot at on three different occasions, but never hit. I was a lot thinner back then.

Vince · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:24 am Post subject: Re: anyone here ever been shot?

Goron_308 wrote:

I haven't been punctured myself, but I've been shot at repeatedly when I was in the Belgian army from 2004 to 2008, as I did two 6-month tours to Afghanistan, in 2005 and 2008. Fortunately, most of these were either potshots taken from half a mile away or random mortar attacks and nobody got seriously hurt... The main issue was with IEDs though, these were the big danger for us even if we were in a relatively calm region.
What I remember is that I didn't even have the time to be afraid, as the main goal was to return fire immediately! However, I'd then be scared shitless for a couple nights later on...

The "CRACK, thump" of as a round passes by is a pretty distinctive sound...certainly makes you sit up and take notice...or is that take cover and take notice.