He claimed that the holes in the paper from his early shots were so large that some of his later bullets passed through them, but the judges decided he missed the target completely once.

The bullets missed Law and hit some trees nearby.

A male hostage-taker shot at him and missed, but stray bullets hit and severely wounded Tamara Starkova and fatally wounded Pavel Zakharov, who were evacuated from the building soon after.

If the FP missed a shot or hunted game, they would cut the hands of innocent living people in order to match the number of bullets used to the number of hands brought back.

Although Frank McLaury is sometimes erroneously stated to have been hit by three bullets ( based on the next-day news accounts in Tombstone papers ), the coroner's inquest found Frank was hit only in the stomach and through the back of the head under his ear ; therefore either Holliday or Wyatt missed Frank.

In separate incidents in the town of Corte, a General narrowly missed assassination when his car was riddled with bullets ; his driver lost an ear in the attack.

Although Moton was covered with blood, the bullets had missed him.

He considers many far-fetched means of assassination, such as depleted uranium boulders, flying radio-controlled CD saws, homing bullets trained to target the victim by being " marinated " in a tin with a picture of the president, and hypnotized Manchurian scorpions.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

Many gun control opponents point to statistics in advertising campaigns purporting that " approximately 9 or so children are killed by people discharging firearms every day across the US ," and argue that this statistic is seldom accompanied by a differentiation of those children killed by individuals from unintentional discharges and stray bullets, and of those " children ," under the age of majority — which is 18-21 in the U. S .— who are killed while acting as aggressors in street gang related mutual combat or while committing crimes, many of which are seen as arising from the War on Drugs.

" I was finishing my cantata when the revolution broke out ", he recorded in his Mémoires, " I dashed off the final pages of my orchestral score to the sound of stray bullets coming over the roofs and pattering on the wall outside my window.

Several of the stained glass windows on the lower tier were hit by stray bullets.

He broke down while accompanying Rajah Brooke during a battle with pirates, but the noise drowned out his blubbering, and he recovered enough to command a storming party of sailors ( placing himself right in the middle of the party, to avoid stray bullets ).

Although the neighboring buildings suffered considerable damage, the mosque itself suffered only superficial damage from stray bullets and shrapnel.

His mentor Hank Brewster dies in the gunfight, and his first horse the General is killed by stray bullets.

Caleb's stray bullets pound this wretched structure, causing the very walls themselves to bleed.

Riding boldly forward while the bullets whistled round him, he began to read the proclamation, but before he got to the end of the first sentence his horse was shot from under him, and he fell to the ground, himself wounded by a stray bullet.

Captain America is seriously injured by the stray bullets, and even appears to die.

That building still stands, and damage from stray bullets can still be seen in the structure's bricks.

`` 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.

An alloy of 95 % copper and 5 % zinc, gilding metal is typically used for ammunition bullet " jackets ", e. g. full metal jacket bullets.

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 ).

A major innovation in small arms and light artillery came in the second half of the 19th century when ammunition, previously delivered as separate bullets and powder, was combined in a single metallic ( usually brass ) cartridge containing a percussion cap, powder, and a bullet in one weatherproof package.

Hunters may desire cartridges with specialized bullets or specific performance as regards bullet and velocity.

For FMJ bullets mounted in bottle neck cases, roll crimping is generally not ever used unless a cannelure is present on the bullet, to prevent causing bullet deformation when crimping.

Boattailed bullets need very little expansion, while unjacketed lead bullets require more expansion to prevent shaving of lead when the bullet is seated.

Measurement of the weight is the easiest, and bullets that are out of round can be detected by rotating the bullet while measuring with a micrometer.

Trying a range of bullets and a variety of powders will determine what combination of bullet and powder gives the most consistent velocities and accuracies.

Other advantages of casting or swaging bullets from lead wire ( which is pricier but avoids many quality-control issues of casting ) is the ability to precisely control many attributes of the resulting bullet.

While originally sold only to handloaders as an inexpensive substitute for jacketed bullets, the plated bullet has come far.

Over the 19th century, bullet design also evolved, the bullets becoming gradually smaller and lighter.

Specially made bullets were designed to match the shape so the bullet would grip the rifle bore and take a spin that way.

About 1862 and later, W. E. Metford carried out an exhaustive series of experiments on bullets and rifling, and invented the important system of light rifling with increasing spiral, and a hardened bullet.

An example of FMJ bullets in their usual shapes: pointed (" Spitzer ( bullet ) | spitzer ") for the 7. 62x39mm rifle and round-nosed for the 7. 62x25mm pistol cartridges.

Plastic tipped bullets are a type of ( rifle ) bullet meant to confer the aerodynamic advantage of the spitzer bullet ( for example, see very-low-drag bullet ) and the stopping power of hollow point bullets.

Many hollow-point bullets, especially those intended for use at high velocity in centerfire rifles, are jacketed, i. e. a portion of the lead-cored bullet is wrapped in a thin layer of harder metal, such as copper or mild steel.

In controlled expansion bullets, the jacket and other internal design characteristics help to prevent the bullet from breaking apart ; a fragmented bullet will not penetrate as far.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

An article in another UK newspaper described a case in which " Gangsters wielding hand guns and a powerful MAC 10 machine pistol struck three times within hours in Wolverhampton "; in one event, a " group of men brandishing a MAC 10 machine pistol sprayed a nearby pub with a hail of bullets ".

Dillinger was struck three ( or four, according to some historians ) times, with two bullets entering the chest, one of them nicking his heart, and the fatal shot-which entered Dillinger through the back of his neck, severed his spinal cord and tore through his brain before exiting out the front of his head just under his right eye.

When Andrew Jackson called on volunteers to dislodge a group of Red Sticks from their breastwork, Houston volunteered, but during the assault he was struck by bullets in the shoulder and arm.

A bullet struck Boone's leg, shattering his kneecap, but he was carried back inside the fort amid a flurry of bullets by Simon Kenton, a recent arrival at Boonesborough.

The bullets struck the wall of the building at the position where Cagney's head had been just a moment prior.

However, for the same reasons, terminal performance of Glaser bullets can vary dramatically, producing impressive successes and equally spectacular failures depending on the angle at which the target is struck.

After leaving drug dealing to pursue a rap career, he was shot at and struck by nine bullets during an incident in 2000.

The bullets were made in such a way that they splattered into powder when they struck the aircraft.

The train was struck by several bullets during the chase but there were no serious injuries.

Two of the bullets had struck and mortally wounded Parmenter ( the second shot being the fatal one ), while the other four. 32 bullets had struck Berardelli.

Six bullets from Cowley's submachine gun eventually struck Nelson in the chest and stomach before Nelson mortally wounded Cowley with bullets in the chest and stomach, while pellets from Hollis's shotgun struck Nelson in the legs and momentarily downed him.

He absorbs the energy of any impact he is struck by, including not only direct physical blows, but also the impact of bullets and throwing weapons, and less successfully, concussive energy beams ; notably Cyclops ' optic blasts.

One of the bullets fired during the shooting struck the Massachusetts State House.

Bulletproof glass ( also known as ballistic glass, transparent armor or bullet-resistant glass ) is a type of strong but optically transparent material that is particularly resistant to being penetrated when struck by bullets, but like all other known materials, is not completely impenetrable.

One day, as he was crossing a river Prah in a canoe, he was struck by bullets from snipers and sharpshooters, who were hiding in the dense treeline.

Taylor was struck by several bullets but survived with the help of Richards.

These bullets and small fragments often made small holes in the airframe ; but, unless the bullet struck the pilot, the engine fuel or cooling system, or a wire or hydraulic line actuating control surfaces, the aircraft remained operational.