From: "Derek Bernard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Actually a shot to the brain will shut someone down before
>they can do anything else
>Steve.
Not according to Massad Ayoob in his training course. He reports incidents
involving fatal brain shots (as well as fatal hits elsewhere), where the
wounded person has continued to function sufficiently well for long enough
to be deadly. In one case, a man was shot at point blank range through the
head with a .44 Magnum. The bullet removed a substantial proportion of his
brain and blew his left eyeball out in the process. He was not even
rendered unconscious; he ripped himself out of the grip of the 2 men holding
him, ran to the door, opened it, ran down 2 flights of stairs, across a
hall, opened another door, crossed a pavement and reached his car (in which
he had a pistol), before collapsing.
According to Massad Ayoob, the only bullet location which always produces
instant and total shutdown, is the central cortex (?), which is the main
nervous system junction box, located approximately where the spine meets the
skull, roughly in line with the mouth.
Derek Bernard
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It depends where the shot goes and what they're shot with.
I remember one where a guy shot himself through the top of his mouth
with a 9mm, the bullet somehow ended going up the side of his face
and came out through the top of his head, and he survived, then
he decided to try again and the bullet richocheted off his teeth
and knocked him out, but he lived.
In the case you mention (I think it's the same one, from Miami) the
kid actually survived and is in a mental hospital. He is a vegetable
and blind but he lived.
What I'm talking about is a heavily trained marksman with a precision
rifle in a serious calibre like .308 who knows _exactly_ where to
shoot the person in the head to cause instant incapacitation.
There's a special target that they use, I remember watching the
Miramar countersniper team practicing on it when I was at the range
in Florida once. They have one for face on and another for a side on
shot. The side on target shows a point of aim slightly behind the ear.
Steve.
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