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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.
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.
He missed Baugh, but the bullet struck his horse in the flank, and horse and rider were brought down.
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.
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William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.
He must have saturated himself in the drink, for the bullet not to shock him out of his drunken haze.
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 second bullet ricocheted off Max's belt buckle, leaving him unhurt but in some distress.
Hiding out like this won't get him anything, except more trouble, or a bullet ''.
: The neatness of his attire was almost incredible ; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
" 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.
The notch was made by the bullet that killed him.
Unfortunately, he also witnessed his mentor, Professor Xavier, " killed " by Bishop's bullet that was not meant for him.
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.
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.
The bullet lodged in his chest caused his chronic rheumatoid arthritis – which he had suffered from for years – to get worse and it soon prevented him from doing his daily stint of exercises ; Roosevelt would soon become obese as well.
When the doctors had Gusenberg stabilized, police tried to question him but when asked who shot him, he replied " Nobody shot me ", despite having sustained fourteen bullet wounds.
In one trick, he allowed an Arab to shoot at him with a marked bullet, but instead of killing him, the bullet was found between his teeth.
Robert-Houdin was not the first illusionist to perform the bullet catch, and many since him have adapted their own version of the effect.
He obliged by inviting one of the rebels to shoot at him with a marked bullet, which he caught between his teeth.
The bullet travelled through him, through a window of the cafe, and hit a table on the outside balcony.
Bryant saw him, with Winter stating " No, no " just prior to being shot, the bullet hitting his hand, neck and chest.
Göring, meanwhile, suffered bullet wounds in his leg and groin, which led him to become increasingly dependent on morphine and other painkilling drugs.
God rest his dear and gallant soul .” A sniper's bullet likely killed him immediately.
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The bullet went wide.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
He dropped a man with the first bullet.
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.
The bullet flung Gray Eyes from his horse.
A bullet smashed directly into the center of William Lewis' chest.
You're coming along peacefully, or I'll put a bullet in your leg ''.
Damn it, he thought bitterly, picking up his shirt and staring at the fresh bullet hole in the sleeve.
A bullet gouged into the bar top an inch from Tilghman's stomach as Blue Throat's henchmen started shooting.
`` 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.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
A man could be tossed outside the dimension of time by a stray bullet these days.
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.
Ruger learned that this was because the higher velocity achieved in a long barrel was upsetting the shape of the unjacketed revolver bullet.
The 240-grain bullet leaves the muzzle at 1,850 fps, which gives it all the smash needed at woods ranges.
, 40-grain bullet is rated at a very hot 2,460 fps, and it's the flattest shooting of any revolver cartridge, with a mid-range rise of about an inch over a 100-yard range.
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.
`` A bullet '', she answered.
At about 2: 30 p. m., while leading one of those charges against a Union camp near the " Peach Orchard ", he was wounded, taking a bullet behind his right knee.
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