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bullet and had
The bullet had penetrated in the area of the right collarbone ; ;
He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.
He moved only about 30 feet after the 240-grain slug hit him -- and this was after the bullet had passed through a sapling.
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.
The bullet had in fact clipped a part of his popliteal artery and his boot was filling up with blood.
House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where micrometeroids from space had impacted the rock.
" 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.
Eyewitness Lieutenant Edward Doherty, the officer in charge of the soldiers who captured Booth and Herold, stated that " the bullet struck Booth in the back of the head, about an inch below the spot where his shot had entered the head of Mr. Lincoln.
Deicide has been banned from playing in several venues ( such as Valparaiso, Chile over a promotional poster featuring Jesus Christ with a bullet hole in his forehead ) and with various festivals such as Hellfest, after several graves had been spray-painted with " When Satan Rules His World ", which is a song from Deicide's 1995 album Once Upon the Cross.
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.
Connolly had been incapacitated by a bullet wound to the ankle and had passed command on to Pearse.
The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible.
Whether facing native spear or European bullet, impis largely fought as they had since the days of Shaka, from Zululand to Zimbabwe, and from Mozambique to Tanzania.
Rumour had spread among them that their bullet cartridges were lubricated with pig and cow fat.
Early rounds had a 15. 3 grams ( 236 grains ) long round nosed bullet, and was loaded so that it produced a muzzle velocity of about 580 m / s ( roughly 1900 ft / s ), while later rounds had a 12. 8 grams ( 198 grains ) spitzer bullet and gave a muzzle velocity of 823 m / s ( 2740 ft / s ).
Early rounds, with a 10. 1 grams ( 156 grains ) long round nosed bullet ( B-projectile ) had a muzzle velocity of around 700 m / s ( roughly 2300 ft / s ), while later rounds with a 9 grams ( 139 grains ) spitzer bullet ( D-projectile ) offered a muzzle velocity up to 870 m / s ( 2854 ft / s ).
Young inhabitants of Prague had taken to the streets and in the confrontation, a stray bullet had killed the wife of Field Marshal Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, the commander of the Austrian forces in Prague.

bullet and torn
Because these are mechanically identical to live rounds, which are intended to be loaded once, fired and then discarded, drill rounds have a tendency to become significantly worn and damaged with repeated passage through magazines and firing mechanisms, and must be frequently inspected to ensure that these are not so degraded as to be unusable — for example the casings can become torn or misshapen and snag on moving parts, or the bullet can become separated and stay in the breech when the case is ejected.
Typical crust punk fashion includes black or camouflage trousers or shorts covered in patches ( heavy work pants are popular for their durability ), torn band T-shirts or hoodies covered in patches, skintight black jeans, studded vests and jackets ( commonly black denim ), bullet belts, jewellery made from hemp and other natural / found objects, and sometimes bum flaps.
When the soldier's clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from his bag of gunpowder.

bullet and through
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.
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.
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 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.

bullet and flesh
Two female bystanders took slight flesh wounds in the legs and buttocks by flying bullet and brick fragments.
* Terminal ballistics: the study of the interaction of a projectile with its target, whether that be flesh ( for a hunting bullet ), steel ( for an anti-tank round ), or even furnace slag ( for an industrial slag disruptor ).
* Terminal ballistics, the study of the interaction of a projectile with its target, whether that be flesh ( for a hunting bullet ), steel ( for an anti-tank round ), or even furnace slag ( for an industrial slag disruptor )
One bullet struck Chen's stomach and was later found in his clothes ; Chen received a flesh wound 8 cm long and 2 cm deep ( four inches long, an inch wide, and an inch deep.
The bullet design can produce large shallow wounds in flesh while failing to pass through structural barriers thicker than drywall or sheet metal.
These two effects are typically referred to as permanent cavity ( the track left by the bullet as it penetrates flesh ) and temporary cavity, which, as the name implies, is the temporary ( instantaneous ) displacement caused as the bullet travels through flesh and is many times larger than the actual diameter of the bullet.
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.
Some Western authorities believed this bullet was designed to tumble in flesh to increase wounding potential.

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