A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

Among her more harrowing experiences was an incident in which a bullet tore through the sleeve of her dress without striking her and killed a man to whom she was tending.

The rifle suffered from cartridge-extraction problems during the Zulu War ( mostly due to the thin weak, pliable foil brass cartridges used, as they expanded too much into the rifle's chamber on detonation, to the point that they stuck or tore open inside the rifle's chamber, rendering the arm useless in the heat of battle ); however, it remained a popular competition rifle at National Rifle Association Meetings, at Bisley in Surrey, and ( NRA ) Civilian and Service Rifle matches from 1872 – 1904, it was used up to 1, 000 yards using the standard military service ammunition of the day, by the 1880s the. 577 /. 450 Boxer Henry round was recognised by the NRA as a 900yard cartridge, as shooting the Martini out to 1, 000 yards or ( 3 / 4 of a mile ) was difficult to say the least, and took great skill to assess the correct amount of windage to drop the 485 grain bullet on the target.

The bullet shattered his spine and tore his aorta, barely missing his son's head as it exited.

At that moment, a muzzle flash erupted, and as a. 32 calibre bullet tore through McGee's neck and through his jaw, knocking his dentures out, the politician fell back into the street.

He then inverted the tube ( the projectile was placed in the cartridge base up ), pushed the end-portion into the muzzle to the approximate depth of the bullet and tore off the remaining paper.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

He moved only about 30 feet after the 240-grain slug hit him -- and this was after the bullet had passed through a sapling.

Not a bullet touched Cook who was nearer the ambush, but one hit Russell in the leg and another broke his arm, passing on through his body.

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.

Shot through his right elbow, the bullet then entering his chest as he ran from the paratroopers on Rossville Street.

The small diameter rounds enable the projectile to travel at the high velocity needed to penetrate Kevlar armor, as a light weapon with sufficient energy to push a large caliber bullet through the armor would have prohibitive recoil.

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 firearm was loaded through the muzzle with gunpowder, optionally some wadding and then a bullet ( usually a solid lead ball, but musketeers could shoot stones when they ran out of bullets ).

For example, a bullet fired upwards may travel through a ceiling and into an adjacent floor.

* The bullet may pass through the intended target and hit a non-target beyond it, so called " overpenetration ".

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.

As with all improv offers, improvisers are encouraged to respect the validity and continuity of the imaginary environment defined by themselves and their fellow performers ; this means, for example, taking care not to walk through the table or " miraculously " survive multiple bullet wounds from another improviser's gun.

In the early 18th century, Benjamin Robins, an English mathematician, realized that an elongated bullet would retain the momentum and kinetic energy of a musket ball, but would slice through the air with greater ease.

The innovation shortly preceded the mass adoption of breech-loading weapons, as it was not practical to push an overbore bullet down through a rifled barrel, only to then ( try to ) fire it back out.

The term caliber essentially refers to the width of the bullet fired through a rifle's barrel.

While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick ( 50 pages ) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket.

In Romania, garlic could be placed in the mouth, and as recently as the 19th century, the precaution of shooting a bullet through the coffin was taken.

The sparks ignite the priming powder and that flame, in turn, ignites the main charge, propelling the ball, bullet, or shot through the barrel.

A bullet passed through his shoulder, severing nerves, and tearing a gash in his throat.

The bullet travelled through him, through a window of the cafe, and hit a table on the outside balcony.

In his coroner's report, Mathews did not mention Billy's arm wound, but witness Keefe, who examined the arm closely, testified later that Clanton was shot through the right arm, close to the wrist joint and " the bullet passed through the arm from " inside to outside ," entering the arm close to the base of the thumb, and exiting " on the back of the wrist diagonally " with the latter wound larger.

The second piece of evidence is that this bullet is a very close match to the size of the bullet hole in Charles ’ hat.

Armstrong's hat had been pierced by a bullet, but he was uninjured.

Each grave has the hat of the respective owner placed on the Crucifix with Bob Dalton's being shredded with bullet holes.

Such tropes that are frequently seen in westerns include shooting the center of a coin, stylistic pistol twirling, glancing shots that intentionally only graze an opponent ( the bullet through the hat being an example, the bullet cutting the hangman's rope being another trope in Westerns ), precise shots that shoot the guns out of opponents ' hands ( typically as an alternative to killing ), or shooting an opponent's belt buckle, thus dropping his pants.

Much of the siege was captured by newsreel cameras, including the moment a bullet supposedly passed through Mr Churchill's top hat, coming within inches of killing him.

The spirit rider wears a cowboy hat, rides a horse known as bullet, and carries an OSU flag.

The handler should wait two minutes with the firearm pointed in a safe direction, then carefully remove the magazine, extract any misfed or misfired cartridge, and with the breech open carefully check to ensure there is not a bullet or other obstruction lodged in the barrel.

The excavation discovered the following items in the two pits which formed a " T ": (# 1 ) remains of 46 human bones fragments ; (# 2 ) bullet jackets from short barrel guns / pistols ; (# 3 ) wooden boxes which had deteriorated into fragments: (# 4 ) pieces of ceramic which appear to be amphoras which were used as containers for acid ; (# 5 ) iron nails ; (# 6 ) iron angles: (# 7 ) seven fragments of teeth ; (# 8 ) fragment of fabric of a garment.

She saves Buffy by removing the bullet from her chest, but later commandeers a tractor trailer, making it slam into Xander's car while he and Buffy are inside protecting Jonathan and Andrew, the other two members of the Trio.

In an interview on Belgian television in a program on the assassination of Lumumba in 1999, Soete displayed a bullet and two teeth that he boasted he had saved from Lumumba's body.

Tests proved that Greener's bullet was extremely effective but it too was rejected for military use because, being two parts, it was judged as being too complicated to produce.

Once there, a gunfight ensues during which two hoods get killed and Shaft takes a bullet in the shoulder.

The differences between the two are the bullet shape, the types of powder used, and that the case of the 12. 7 × 108mm is 9 mm longer and marginally more powerful.

Custer's body had two bullet holes, one in the left temple and one just above the heart.

However, the grandson of Jesse Kirk reported that the town was named for Kirk ’ s son John, a figure of local legend credited with killing two deer with a single bullet.

In a 2002 letter to The Guardian Deborah relates the experience: " We were not prepared for what we found-the person lying in bed was desperately ill. She had lost two stone ( 28 pounds ), was all huge eyes and matted hair, untouched since the bullet went through her skull.

Others vibrate, either vibrating the ring itself, or in a popular ' Dolphin ' variant by using two removable bullet vibrators to provide stimulation to both the testicles and clitoris.

Others, such as the vibrating ring, vibrate, either vibrating the ring itself, or in a popular ' Dolphin ' variant using two removable bullet vibrators to provide stimulation to the testicles and clitoris.

On the floor lay Fink with two bullet wounds in his chest and one in his left wrist, which was powder-marked.

The PGU-12 / B High Velocity cartridge differs from M41 Special ammunition in two important respects-the PGU-12 / B is a much higher-pressure cartridge, with a bullet deeply set and crimped into the cartridge case.

Stojanović was alleged to have killed one man and wounded two more by firing one single bullet.

The two main advantages of this ammunition are that it is very humane, a hit almost anywhere on most small vermin will ensure an instant kill, and that instead of dangerously and uncontrollably richocheting off surfaces, the bullet harmlessly breaks apart.

Performance is generally graded with two factors, the maximum depth of penetration and the size of the cavity formed in the gelatin by the bullet impact.

With the same gun and two loads with different bullet masses but the same recoil force, the load firing the heavier bullet will have the softer recoil, because the product of mass times acceleration must remain constant, and if mass goes up then acceleration must go down, to keep the product constant.

Consider a system where the gun and shooter have a combined mass M and the bullet has a mass m. When the gun is fired, the two systems move away from one another with new velocities V and v respectively.

The kinetic energy for the two systems are for the gun-shooter system and for the bullet.

The two typical designs are the hollow point bullet and the soft point bullet.

The official report stated that two of the dead Swedish bodyguards had suffered multiple bullet wounds.