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Activeness movies have it all wrong. According to gunshot survivors from Ask Reddit, this is what it REALLY feels like to have a bullet.

1. I was caught in the eye of a drive-by shooting

"Shot in the arm when I was immature when I got caught in the middle of a bulldoze past shooting.

You know in the movies where a gun goes off and at that place'due south a sudden await of daze on the victim'southward face up earlier he looks at the wound? That's very authentic. I did not feel any hurting or annihilation. I heard the gunshot and felt a tight pressure in my arm. I looked and saw the wound and how much blood I was losing, and the next thing I know I'm in the hospital." — BBBBrendan

2. Rebels murdered everyone in the car with me

"Was working in Ghana at a mine for two years and their was an internal conflict going on in the country. One twenty-four hour period a group of regime officials and I had to go to the far end of the mine to practice an inspection on an area undergoing environmental rehab. Rebels were waiting on the border of the mine and shot at usa with AK47s spraying the car with bullets. Everyone in the car died except for me. I got shot in the forearm simply. The Rebels afterwards explained they didn't run across that a white man was in the automobile and if they had known they wouldn't have shot (shooting a greenhorn acquired a lot of unwanted attention from their part and was considered bad manners)." — pepperonipenetration

three. I wished I could pass out to stop the pain

"I got shot through the thigh with a .45, information technology burned like a motherfucker. The bullet went through the os completely and the tendons pulled everything out of place, my leg was most 4 inches shorter than the other. Trying to move it was accented agony, I was praying to laissez passer out but never did." — jnips

iv. An IED killed everyone, except my step-male parent

"I accept two that aren't mine.

Step dad: him and his squad drove over an IED. Killed anybody, except him. Mangled his feet though. Immediately after, ambush. He was shot in, his already mangled foot, and it exited out the calf, near the back of the knee. After the fight he passed out he and woke up in Germany on the plane still. He promptly saturday up and punched the female Lieutenant Doctor. His captain saved him from punishment. The said it was like some 1 put a red hot poker to his foot and hit it with a sledge hammer. He can however walk, simply frequently does then on the sides of his feet and can't go for a long fourth dimension. He still suffers from the PTSD as well. The release of the flick 'American Sniper' sent him into a pretty bad area for a while. He trained and was friends with Chris.

My grandpa got hit in the cheek with shrapnel from a mortar in Vietnam. He said he didn't feel it, just thought it was dirt debris. He was given the Royal Heart, merely denied accepting information technology because men under him lost limbs and their life. He idea he didn't deserve it. He still has a noticeable scar. Slap-up man besides, I love him." — notRYAN702

5. It felt like a baseball bat smacked into me

"I was shot with Ak-47 to the leg. Felt like a baseball bat hit me; but with no pain. This was followed by a buzzing feeling for v-10 seconds then the astringent achy hurting set in. Once I got back, I was diagnosed with a screw fracture. Less painful than I thought it would be, but it was still up there!" — ktojongolt

6. The pain came after the tourniquet was applied

"Nigh 4 years ago I was struck by 4 rounds from machine gun fire, 1 actually skipped off my trunk armor right into my left bicep. Honestly did not feel hurting when I got hit, just this weird wave of feeling hot and moisture on my left side. The pain definitely came subsequently once a tourniquet was practical." — Jigur0

7. I thought that I was beingness stung by a bee

"I was shot in left foot when I was seventeen. At first I idea it was a bee sting because it sounded like bees flying by. 2 seconds later I realized something was wrong. The bee noises were bullets flight by. It felt like a hot fire poker along the path of the bullet. We were camping and like an hour and a one-half to a hospital. The burning lasted the entire time until morphine got in. Was in a walking boot for months due to tendon and nervus harm. No bones were damaged only my foot is all the same numb on elevation due to nervus impairment and it always hurts. I always feel it and if anything hits the entry or exit points or the scar from surgery to remove bullet fragments information technology transport weird tingles up my leg. Definitely changed my life." — eradicATErs

8. I was shot in the back on my birthday

"Lilliputian setup for my incident.

I was 16. Christmas 24-hour interval, my birthday. I was hunting with a guy who had taken information technology upon himself to teach me a hobby and a ways to live off the wild as a way to try and adjourn my anger and hating behavior.

His blood brother had joined us that day and his brother had brought with him his wife'south nephew. The guy with whom I hunted was named Barry. Barry had a lot of state, a couple hundred acres of forest land he used for hunting, tracking, preparedness etc…,

We were out that day with the dogs, jubilant my birthday and Christmas by being a piffling reckless and gathering what we killed for a big Christmas dinner. It was extremely cold and we were all wearing multiple layers and coveralls. I had on a prepare of regular fatigues, a thick pair of mossy oak pants, my thick jacket and a pair of total bodied coveralls which were made for common cold. I was nearly a walking camouflaged thermal brawl of danger.

Here'south how I got shot.

The nephew had a shotgun and he was walking about 20 yards or so off to my correct. We were hunting duck and a few other birds at the fourth dimension. For some reason, this kid had buckshot loaded instead of duck shot. (Nosotros discovered this afterwards).

I'grand crouched low amongst some knee high grass waiting on a flock of ducks to pass past the small-scale swimming we were waiting by. Just every bit they got within range, I stood and took my shot. Apparently, at this same time, the nephew wanted to shoot something too so he fired as well. Only problem was he wasn't aiming when he did and he didn't run across me kneeling there.

I took the shot in the back. From about 15-25 yards. It floored me. Face down in the ground. It honestly felt like someone had shoved me hard enough to knock the air out of me. It didn't hurt but I was definitely winded.

I didn't realize that I'd been shot and I thought I had been pushed. I jumped up and lost my temper and started yelling, 'What the fuck is your problem!? Why'd you lot fucking push me??!!'

At this point I'm still yelling and cussing when Barry is running full speed my direction yelling himself. When he got to me he kept request if I was alright and kept trying to turn me around. This act was making me more furious as I didn't know what the fuck he was trying to do. Right when I start to shove him dorsum, he grabs my shoulders and tells me, 'You were just shot. I demand to see where you lot got shot.'

I don't remember any fear or pain, just acrimony and defoliation. Not trying to sound all tough and badass merely all I recollect was that I was gonna pound whomever had pushed me.

Barry had me plough and inspect the place where I had been shot. The coveralls, jacket, fatigues and pants were shredded. When they managed to convince me that I had been shot, they helped me get my jackets off and run across the damage. I had what looked similar frozen paintball bruising all over my back. Most were centered around one area but there were pepper spots (big bruising spots) on the tiptop of my legs, my shoulders and the backs of my arms. My ass and my dorsum got the worst of the bruising with some bleeding.

I recollect being in disbelief and not really concerned. It didn't hurt until later when I guess the anger and adrenaline (perhaps shock idk) wore off.

The nephew was promptly disarmed. Scolded and yelled at by both Barry and his blood brother. I simply just stared at him with whatever anger I was notwithstanding feeling.

Barry ended upward doctoring my small blood spots and packing me down with ice when I absolutely refused to go the hospital. He cleaned the few animals we had killed and the duck that I had managed to get whilst being shot. I was proud of that later.

When he returned me home, he recounted the story to my female parent. At present my mother isn't quite correct, in fact she'south a operation schizophrenic, heavy medication. But when she takes her medicine she's almost normal. Anyways, my mother checks on me and almost shrugs information technology off when she realizes I'm fine.

Barry, at this time, was telling her he'd never seen annihilation like it. 'The male child gets shot, still manages to kill his target, jumps up swearing, furious and trying to fight whoever had *shoved him.'

My mom heard one matter and that I was swearing. She so grounded me for cursing so badly and saying 'fuck' and 'goddamnit.'

That was my advantage for surviving a shotgun to the back, getting grounded for cussing afterwards." — ARedWerewolf

nine. My friend's wife was ambushed and shot

"My friend'due south wife was ambushed and shot at an intersection by a .38 I believe. She didn't feel anything and was able to drive 10 minutes abode, walk into the house, and tell her husband she had been shot. My friend said he didn't believe her, until he saw two fiddling blood-red holes in her body. One in her arm and the other in the side of her abdomen.

Unfortunately I don't know when she started feeling pain and I didn't think to ask. I remember being shocked that she was alive after being ambushed and was able to drive ten minutes dwelling and so walk into the house." —

10. I was shot while working security at a nightclub

"I was shot 4 times and got shrapnel from a 5th shot in my neck working security at a nightclub. 3 of the bullets were caught in my vest that other staff constantly razzed me about wearing under my t-shirt. The quaternary entered my chest between the sternum and shoulder, exited my back above the shoulder blade and lodged in the back console of the vest and the shrapnel cuts were similar to paper cuts on my neck, they just bled a lot. The gun was a .380 and honestly I felt the ones hit my vest because they were similar to punches and didn't find the one actual wound until I realized I couldn't lift my arm all the style up. It was a numb, sometimes throbbing burning pain. I was treated at the hospital, given painkillers and had to rehab the arm which is back to 100% again. I afterward found out 1 of the bullets actually went through someone standing in front of me. Afaik that person is alive and well. All three shots into the vest could have been fatal shots to the lungs/heart.

Anyone out at that place in policing/security/european monetary system etc. just think a $200-300 vest can salve your life." — thsthrwwykllsfscsts

11. A strange exchange student shot me on accident

"Got shot in the calf with a .22 LR while landscaping about a decade ago. Information technology but felt like a push button-compression like if someone pushed a wasp stinger into my skin and since I was using a weed whacker at the time, I thought it had picked something up and thrown information technology against my leg. It went numb, and when I looked at the wound it was bleeding way too much to be from random droppings. Information technology really only hurt afterward I started fucking with information technology to terminate the haemorrhage. If you get shot, don't await at the wound if at all possible.

The shooter was a German foreign substitution student with surprisingly bad cage awareness, trigger safety, et cetera, simply since the damage was minor nosotros all laughed information technology off. Honestly information technology didn't hurt that bad, hopefully being shot past a smaller caliber has helped me build my immunity up towards larger bullets." — czulu

12. She was shot directly in the face up

"A coworker of mine'south sis got shot point blank in the face. Very recent ex simply walked up to her in plain daylight on the street, pulled out a 45 and shot her in the face. Bullet went in under her left nostril, through all her upper teeth and out the dorsum side of her neck under her skull. Ouch." — Dr_Trogdor

13. Information technology was a bizarre series of sensations

"Surprisingly painless compared to what you lot might expect, I'm non one of those 'I didn't even realize I was shot' people, though I tin definitely understand where they're coming from. The very outset matter I felt tin only be described as a sudden touch of no awareness, I felt numbness launder over the surface area, if I had not realized I was about to be shot shortly earlier I was I could see how I could have easily take been too distracted to notice this immediate response. That feeling then gave way to a horrible called-for sensation. Information technology'southward a very 'hot' pain, information technology feels the way a very flushed face or a blister feels, merely intense and painful and after a little time passes the area around information technology has this very unexpected achy pain that feels more similar what y'all would expect from being hit with a bat than being shot. And yet I wouldn't know how I would even rank it in terms of how painful information technology actually was, the feeling of beingness shot was seamlessly paired with the adrenaline and wooziness of having REALIZED I was shot and the noesis that I really couldn't beget to go shot again. The 3 intermingled and alternately masked and intensified each other. For a few moments I'd totally forget I had been shot, only for my attention to come back to myself in a lot of hurting. I've never had to describe information technology earlier, my words seem and so inadequate, its a very bizarre series of sensations that I imagine is almost never experienced by people in an otherwise clear country of mind. I really cannot understate the significance of the psychological touch on it had on me in the moment, which totally distorted my processing of physical sensation.

All in all 0/10, would not recommend." — Tia_Jamon

xiv. Information technology felt like being pricked by needles

"It'due south a bit of burning sensation mainly. The quick pierce into your torso hurts like hell. Best manner I can depict it is that it feels like being continuously poked equally if someone is holding multiple abrupt pricks to you and pushing in but not stabbing.

Painful as shit, but it's not an ungodly amount of pain to where y'all can't even cope with it if it's in an area of non importance in your body such as arm or shoulder. Can't speak of experience from beingness shot anywhere else.

To be honest ricochets hurt a shit load worse than a straight touch on considering information technology tin hitting yous in multiple places instead of merely one entrance and/or exit wound would in a straight touch." — transam96

15. I was shot in the head and nonetheless accept the scar

"I didn't even actually know I was shot. I felt the blast and the noise and didn't realize until liquid was gushing onto my breast. Since I was shot in the head/face I was worried virtually brain damage and kept doing multiplication in my head. It really wasn't too bad. I was lucky and it did not affect my hearing or sight. I only accept a minor circular scar that kind of looks lime a dimple." — idiputchko

16. The bullet bounced off of my os

"Smaller caliber shot through the arm. Just a flesh wound, it did bounce off the os though.

It felt similar electricity. The only thing that I tin relate information technology to would exist hitting a baseball (or annihilation) wrong with a bat or stick. That'south eighty% of the feeling. The initial pain was exactly like that.

Afterward pains withal were something unique that I can't relate to anything.

It wasn't until I noticed all the blood that I realized I'd been shot. I was angry for a few seconds then I laughed about it. And then I was more worried nearly wrapping the wound and coming up with a adept lie.

7/x on the pain calibration I've had worse only it was not pleasant." — Justanotherrandom23

17. I was shot in the leg during a house party

"I was at a business firm party when a fight popped up and one guy pulled out a German luger and shot the guy straight in front end of me. The man missed and hit my leg. I felt like where I got striking was burning and cold at the same fourth dimension. It was a weird feeling just honestly the hurting was like a iii out of 10." — ProfesserFinesser7

18. It felt similar a firecracker through my shoulder

"Shot in the shoulder. Didn't realize it at first. Noticed blood. Instantly felt it. It was like someone shot a firecracker through my right shoulder.

I guess it's different for most people depending on sensation." — VillainousThrowaway

xix. It hurt more to make clean the wound

"I had a friend who was in the army and was on leave considering he got shot in the shoulder with an AK-47. He didn't really become into much particular, but he told me when he got striking it didnt really injure until he noticed a few moments later. He said the accented worst part was when another person in his group poured this mixture on his wound to stop the bleeding. He said it hurt like hell and was worse than getting shot. I don't call up what exactly was in the mixture I think information technology might have been gun pulverization." — GoonFromGoonsville

20. It felt like someone slammed my manus in a desk-bound

"My right mitt got clipped by a .223 ricochet while shooting targets on a friends property. Initially felt like my had got slammed betwixt a large math textbook and a wooden desk-bound followed by a intense burning sensation. I volition say that later the touch i didn't immediately recall much of the injury, I checked that my firearm was still functioning and didn't terminate firing until i felt the blood dripping down my arm." — cowboychimps

21. Information technology felt similar getting pelted by rocks

"It felt like a cross between existence smacked really hard (or like pelted actually hard by a rock) on my arm, mixed with a feeling similar existence stung like a bee. It hurt for a footling while then was numb, and it bled an extreme amount. Was shot in the arm by a friend fooling around with a gun.

It sucked, was a bad feeling merely not intolerable, i accept crohn'southward illness and accept had much worse pain from things associated with it than from being shot." — [deleted]

22. It felt like being striking with a nail

"My father was shot in the knee past a sniper during the Korean state of war. He said it felt like being hitting by a baseball bat with a nail sticking out of it." — bestkook

23. I didn't experience whatsoever pain in the moment

"I got shot in the pes almost 2 years ago with a .45. Went in one side and out the other, pulverized some of the bone as well. There was no hurting at all. Simply knew I was shot because of all the blood. At the hospital about a half hour after it started to injure a little. Doctor was surprised that I but rated the pain as a 4 out of ten. Information technology injure a off-white scrap in the days and weeks later on, merely never intolerably." — Gangrel13

24. Information technology felt like a footling bee sting

"My husband got shot in Gary, IN in the 80'southward. The dumbass gangsta shit bag actually missed, but the bullet ricocheted off the house he was working on so the brunt of the bullet was not life threatening.

He said that information technology felt like a bee sting. He went to the ER where they extracted the bullet and did nix. No constabulary report. Naught because information technology was such a mutual-identify scenario and he actually was barely hurt.

I mean, 20 years later, yous can hardly see the scar. It is more than like bragging rights now.

Simply let me tell you…a couple years agone he survived a tornado going over his dorsum. That shit fucked his mind upward for a while." — Stabfacenotback

25. Getting treated injure, but getting shot did not

"I took a bullet in the ass cheek that did some kind of parabolic arc and exited out of the back of my thigh. Didn't feel the impact, but wondered why my leg felt heavy and wet (I was on a bicycle at the time).

Getting shot itself didn't hurt, getting treated for it did. The finger in the donkey at the hospital didn't help much." — secondhand_organs

26. I was hit with a piece of shrapnel and it stung

"I got shrapnel to the shin. It in such a style it looked like a clean fillet of skin down to the bone. Information technology injure pretty fucking bad, the initial feel was like accept a lead pipage to the shin.

A buddy of mine from the same unit but operating out of another Play a joke on took a seven.62MM straight through his upper left arm. From what he told me with the adrenaline and oestrus it felt a petty worse than a bad wasp sting. After the dust off dorsum the medics working on his arm noticed he need his dental check up and continued to patch him upward while he got a good teeth cleaning." —[deleted]

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