ELB wrote:I'm still thinking the guy was wearing more than just a Carhartt jacket, and that combined with a shallow angle hit maybe led to the bullets traveling through the clothing, parallel to the skin, rather than perpendicular (and into the body). I have read of people getting shot and having a round travel all the way to the other side of their bodies just underneath the skin, rather that straight through the core. Maybe that happened with the clothing.
[sidebar]My dad was shot in the lower center chest (just above his solar plexus) with a japanese 6.5mm rifle bullet on Iwo Jima. The bullet hit a brass button on his field jacket, which broke up both the button and the bullet jacketing. The lead core was deflected (trailing tiny bits of brass button and copper jacketing) such that it stayed in his rib cage between two ribs, traveling all the way around to his back, where it exited just to the side of his spine. Small bits of bullet jacket and button did penetrate his chest cavity, but the bulk of the bullet's mass traveled as described. The bullet track remained visible on x-rays the rest of his life because of the tiny bits of brass and copper along the wound path - pieces of which would occasionally work their way to the surface and pop out of his skin. I remember seeing that happen once.[/sidebar]
A good friend of mine here was working as a IT project manager in London and was drinking in a pub with a friend when (long story shortened) his friend was shot in the upper front chest by a thug with a homemade pistol firing a charge of nuts and bolts, at a distance of several yards. His friend was wearing a heavy leather jacket. The impact was sufficient to raise quite a bruised welt on his friend's pectoral, but none of the shot penetrated the jacket leather, merely leaving a scuffed up area on an otherwise fairly new jacket.
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