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A bullet fired by one of the Mexicans hiding in a little chicken house had passed through his head, tearing a hole two-inches square on the outgoing side.
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`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
" I had a revolver in my pocket and without saying a word to him, I took it out of my overalls and I fired a bullet into the back of his head.
Crossbow bolts, if still used, would seldom penetrate good plate, nor would any bullet unless fired from close range.
Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.
However, a bullet fired at an angle not perfectly vertical will retain its spin on the way down and can attain much more lethal speeds.
Suddenly Konstantis drew his pistol and fired, missing, the bullet sticking in the church wall where it is still visible today.
The Cheyenne turned and fired at Stuart with an old-fashioned pistol, striking him in the chest with a bullet, which did little more damage than to pierce the skin.
Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun is designed to fire as long as the trigger is held down.
Other automatic weapons are subdivided into several categories based on the size of the bullet used, and whether the cartridge is fired from a positively locked closed bolt, or a non-positively locked open bolt.
The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.
As a general rule, revolvers cannot be effective with a sound suppressor (" silencer "), as there is usually a small gap between the revolving cylinder and the barrel which a bullet must traverse or jump when fired.
On the right leg of the statue, a mark from a bullet fired during the 1998 shooting incident is clearly visible.
Two shots were fired, one bullet grazing the President's belly after penetrating the windshield of a jeep and multilayers of clothing, the other bullet penetrated the windshield and hitting the vice president's knee cast ( She was wearing a knee cast due to an earlier injury ).
During the gunfight, Doc Holliday was bruised by a bullet fired by Frank that struck his holster and grazed his hip.
Morgan Earp was struck across both shoulder blades by a bullet that Morgan thought Frank McLaury had fired.
Chief Hinges kills Frank by shooting him 4 times with a shotgun, the last bullet hitting his neck and yells out " You're fired ".
A modern Cartridge ( firearms ) | cartridge consists of the following: 1. the bullet, which serves as the projectile ; 2. the casing ( ammunition ) | case, which holds all parts together ; 3. the propellant, for example gunpowder or cordite ; 4. the rim, which provides the extractor on the firearm a place to grip the casing to remove it from the chamber once fired ; 5. the percussion cap | primer, which ignites the propellant.
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An abscess () is a collection of pus ( dead neutrophils ) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides due to an infectious process ( usually caused by bacteria or parasites ) or other foreign materials ( e. g., splinters, bullet wounds, or injecting needles ).
The trajectory of the bullet indicated he could have been killed by soldiers positioned on the Derry Walls.
The cartridge used by the FN P90, the 5. 7 × 28 mm, for example, fires a 2. 0 g ( 31 grain ) armor-piercing bullet at velocities of around 700 m / s ( 2300 ft / s ).
If we think of the atoms as impenetrable steel discs and the impinging particle as a bullet of negligible diameter, this ratio is the probability that the bullet will strike a steel disc, i. e., that the atomic projectile will be stopped by the foil.
He attended as operating surgeon when President Garfield was fatally wounded by the bullet of an assassin in 1881.
Fierce fighting broke out throughout the foreign areas and railway station, and Beatty was injured by a bullet in the left arm and wrist.
He had spoken only a few words, however, when the insurgents, hearing some shots, and fancying they were betrayed, opened fire upon the national guard, and the archbishop fell, struck by a stray bullet.
It found the analytic model used by the FBI for interpreting results was deeply flawed, and the conclusion, that bullet fragments could be matched to a box of ammunition, was so overstated that it was misleading under the rules of evidence.
Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.
The shot was initially made from lead already used as ammunition for the slings, and begun with the ballistic shape of a modern bullet, but was rapidly replaced by the cast iron ball.
The brass cartridge also opened the way for modern repeating arms, by uniting the bullet, gunpowder and primer into one assembly that could be fed reliably into the breech by a mechanical action in the firearm.
Yet in 1820, weakened by illness and with a decreasing support for his authoritarian regime, he killed himself with a silver bullet rather than face a coup d ' état.
Handloading or reloading is the process of loading firearm cartridges or shotgun shells by assembling the individual components ( case / hull, primer, powder, and bullet / shot ), rather than purchasing completely assembled, factory-loaded cartridges.
The handloading process can realize increased accuracy and precision through improved consistency of manufacture, by selecting the optimal bullet weight and design, and tailoring bullet velocity to the purpose.
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