The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible.

Unintended damage may occur if a non-target is misidentified as a target, if the target is missed, or if the bullet hits something or someone other than the intended target.

However, because No's heart was on the right-hand side of his body ( dextrocardia ), the bullet missed his heart and he survived.

Another possibility is that the bayonet originated as a hunting weapon: early firearms were fairly inaccurate and took a long time to reload ; thus a hunter of dangerous animals such as wild boar could easily have been exposed to danger if the hunter's bullet missed the animal.

The bullet missed his head but hit his neck, momentarily paralysing him.

Wyatt was also shot at, but the bullet went high and missed.

Recognizing McCarty's voice, Garrett drew his own pistol and fired twice, the first bullet striking McCarty in the chest just above his heart, although the second one missed and struck the mantle behind him ; McCarty fell to the floor and gasped for a minute and died.

They concluded that it missed due to the lack of physical evidence of an actual bullet, of course this investigation took place almost sixteen years after the crime.

The bullets missed the president, but a stray bullet struck his wife Yuk Young-soo, who died later in the day, and one choir girl.

The bullet missed Mack's head by inches.

One bullet wounded his finger while another bullet missed his head.

The bullet missed him.

Tatau was charged with Dunning's murder, the attempted murder of his colleague, and an earlier shooting incident on a Participating Police Force ( PPF ) vehicle, in which a bullet narrowly missed two PPF officers.

Emotional fainting is the likely reason for most " one-shot stops ", and not an intrinsic effectiveness quality of any firearm or bullet ; there are many documented instances where people have instantly dropped unconscious when the bullet only hit an extremity, or even completely missed.

Trimble complained bitterly that if his leg had been amputated at Second Bull Run, the bullet would have missed him on this occasion.

It was during this retreat that Reno was reportedly shot in the neck, but the bullet missed his spine and major blood vessels, so it was only a flesh wound.

The bullet missed, so the boy fired again, the bullet passing through the sleeve of Benteen ’ s coat.

A. 22 bullet from a Luger pistol missed Warren's heart by an inch, and he lost half a lung and parts of his ribs.

When the bullet missed, Hödel ran across the street and fired another round which also missed.

Relegated to the Second XI after this match, he was struck in the head above the right eye while batting against Victoria in Melbourne, having missed an attempted hook.

Grampa claims to have attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on two occasions, one when he threw a javelin at him in the 1936 Summer Olympics, which barely missed and instead struck a would-be Hitler assassin, and once when he attempted to shoot him with a sniper rifle, missing only by a few centimeters due to unintentional interference by Montgomery Burns.

The sheriff was so nervous that he missed the rope the first time he struck at the trap door.

New South Wales was then sent in at the SCG and Waugh struck 137 from 185 runs on the first day, including a six from Peter Sleep that narrowly missed the clock tower.

The volume of 1770 had struck Bruce's friends as being incomplete, and his father missed his son's " Gospel Sonnets ," which are supposed by the partisans of Bruce against Logan to have been the hymns printed in the 1781 edition of Logan's poems.

The ball missed the dugout but struck a fan who had to be immediately taken to a hospital.

The first two salvoes missed, but the last struck Norge midships and she sank in less than one minute.

Although he performed for the industry opening night, Warlow was struck down by a bout of influenza that had also claimed many of the other cast and crew and he missed the first two and a half weeks of the show's Melbourne season.

Doherty was nearly blinded in 2002 in a bathroom accident ; after slipping, he struck an ornament, which narrowly missed his left eye.

One spread missed, but the other struck the 5, 500-ton transport Nikko Maru — carrying homeward-bound Japanese soldiers and sailors from Shanghai.

Most of this fusillade actually missed its intended targets and instead struck the rear ranks of Zayas's men.

MacTavish missed the 1984 – 85 season after being convicted of vehicular homicide, having struck and killed a young woman while he was driving under the influence of alcohol.

The first shot hit the Kid in the chest just above the heart, although the second one missed and struck the mantle behind him ; the Kid fell to the floor and gasped for a minute before dying.

Mora missed a few days of spring training as a precautionary measure despite not having any serious injuries after his automobile was struck from behind by another vehicle on Arizona State Route 101 on March 7, 2011.

The equipment and personnel of the squadron were flying out of Dobbins Air Reserve Base near Atlanta, Georgia when the hurricane struck and never missed a tasked mission.

Injury again struck Watson in the early stages of the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 as he missed most of the tournament due to hamstring strain .‎ He was then out of action for the 2007 – 08 Australian season.

While serving as Commissioner of the Boston Police, O ' Toole was a central figure in the controversy surrounding the fatal shooting of Victoria Snelgrove during the celebrations of the Boston Red Sox victory over the rival New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series, in which riot police fired a " less lethal " pepper spray round, which missed its intended target and struck Ms Snelgrove in the eye, entering her brain and killing her.

Dave McNally struck Jones in the foot with a pitch, however, home plate umpire Lou DiMuro ruled that the ball missed Jones.

The first torpedo missed, and seconds later the boat was struck by a shell that blew away much of her stern, mortally wounding one of her crew and causing her to sink.

He missed the final ten games of the season after he was struck in the back of the neck by a slapshot during a game in Minnesota.

No player since him has hit 40 homers and struck out 40 or fewer times in the same season ( Barry Bonds missed duplicating this feat by one strikeout in 2004 ).

# Three balls being struck at and missed and the last one caught, is a hand out ; if not caught is considered fair, and the striker bound to run.

The ship missed the open portion and struck part of the fixed span.