Thread: A question for the doubters

Originally Posted by Hermitage

I was shot in the leg by a .223 from close range in a hunting accident.
The round entered the lateral side of my left leg about 5cm below the knee. It lodged in my tibia. It caused a compression injury to my lateral meniscus. It caused a pulling tear to the medial meniscus. It also stretched and tore my medial collateral ligament, partially tore my patellar tendon and tore both the ACL and my PCL.
Didn’t really hurt at first, but it dropped me like a rock. I've always suspected that had it been a .308, it probably would have ripped my leg off at the knee. Better a chronically sore leg and a limp than no leg.

I'm sorry that you had that experience. It must have been rather unpleasant.

Was it a 73,75,80,88gr ELDM, 74 or 80gr Targex, 77gr TMK, 77,80,85gr Berger?

Originally Posted by gimp

I'm sorry that you had that experience. It must have been rather unpleasant.

Was it a 73,75,80,88gr ELDM, 74 or 80gr Targex, 77gr SMK, 77,80,85gr Berger?

Yeah no 'heavy for calibre' bullets involved as this was back in 1991 when I was a student at Teachers College.
My mate & I did a Sth Island trip and this happened when we were shooting rabbits in Tekapo. Back then we didn't have rangefinders so were reloading using small-for-calibre bullets at high velocity for MPBR (we did have a 'Shooters Chrony' chronograph).
I was using a Ruger .25/06 shooting 85gr Nosler Ballistic Tips @ 3600fps and he was using a Brno Fox shooting 40 gr Sierra Blitzkings @3700, so it was a very fragile explosive bullet.

Therefore I'll admit the bullet that I was hit with was nothing compared to the heavy-for-calibre bullets this thread is based on.

Originally Posted by Hermitage

Yeah no 'heavy for calibre' bullets involved as this was back in 1991 when I was a student at Teachers College.
My mate & I did a Sth Island trip and this happened when we were shooting rabbits in Tekapo. Back then we didn't have rangefinders so were reloading using small-for-calibre bullets at high velocity for MPBR (we did have a 'Shooters Chrony' chronograph).
I was using a Ruger .25/06 shooting 85gr Nosler Ballistic Tips @ 3600fps and he was using a Brno Fox shooting 40 gr Sierra Blitzkings @3700, so it was a very fragile explosive bullet.

Therefore I'll admit the bullet that I was hit with was nothing compared to the heavy-for-calibre bullets this thread is based on.

Nice controlled and factual answer to what could have been taken as a sarcastic question. All bullet wounds hurt and can do considerable damage, even 224 fmj, which a lot of people seem to write off as ineffective for anything.