Has anyone ever been shot? with a gun?

Question

is it true that when you get shot you dont hear the bullet?

Answer 1

I didn't hear the bullet in Somalia because the Freaking RPG's were blowing everywhere around me. I didn't hear the bullet in Haiti or Bosnia. All you think about is surviving without killing a buddy.

Answer 2

well i didnt but my when my dad was 7 he was chasing after a squierrl to soot it and he had to jump a fence so he put the gun over first then when he went to get it im not sure how it happened but he shot a bb through his thumb that was 40 something years ago and you can still see the scar on his thumb

Answer 3

This comes form the old military saying

"You never hear the one that hits you"

Also the source of the saying that

"You'll never hear it coming"

It is nothing more than lore

Sometimes you hear it sometimes you don't it depends on many many factors

What many here are saying they heard is the explosion that sets the bullet in motion not the noise generated by the bullet moving through the air

Answer 4

Lest anyone think I am claiming otherwise, let me say now, I have never been shot. I'd like to keep it that way.

The reason for this half-truth is that upon experiencing the shock and trauma of a gunshot wound, your sensory perception tends to go into acute shock. I say "tends," because not everyone reacts this way, and those that do will do so to varying degrees. Vision becomes "tunnel vision," meaning you lose peripheral vision. Some people see black and white. Most do in fact lose hearing. But you don't have to be shot to experience that.

Many people have symptoms like this during very scary and/or painful events. I've seen people seemingly lose their ability to see or focus on what's going on around them during TRAINING exercises, when the stress starts piling on. I'd imagine having real bullets fired at you, and them actually hitting you, would amplify this.

I once shot a moccasin with my .45 and didn't hear my own shot until moments later when my ears were ringing. Just the excitement caused by the fact that it had been literally thrown at my feet and that if I missed, it would go under the house (or strike at me).

However, my grandfather was shot in a barfight, and said it's a load of garbage. He heard the shot that hit him, AND the one he shot back with. He did say though that being shot caused his body to go limp and drop like a sack of potatoes. Others have said they didn't experience this.

It's up to the person, but the point is it's a psychological factor, and not due to the speed of sound vs bullets, or any other physical phenomena.

Answer 5

You will never hear the shot or noise of the gun or bullet that kills you, otherwise if you hear it you are alive, but depending where you get hit will determine for how long you remain that way.*

Answer 6

it hurt like a B..................

Answer 7

i shot myself in the ear with a bb gun...yup thats right people im a man!

since the gun was so close to my ear, i heard the gun shoot the bullet, but didn't hear the bullet. my ear was ringing for days

Answer 8

no you hear it its a loud noise it goes BANG

Answer 9

no but i no i aint no s**y thang LOL!!

Answer 10

I heard all 5 rounds that hit me....although it didn't hurt at first....it hurt like a ***** after tho.

Answer 11

  That is true. The bullet travels faster than the speed of sound. The range I go to is basically just a big open field with a big burm at the end of it. I like to shoot distance with my rifles so a lot of the time I end up having to wait for all the pistol shooters to get done. You can clearly see the projectile impacting the burm a good time before you hear the pop. They shoot pistols on average between 10-50 feet.  

Answer 12

Well I've been shot at with a .30-06, but luckily never hit. I suppose that could be partially true - the bullet itself is supersonic (with few exceptions). Therefore the bullet will reach the target before the sound of the gunshot. This wouldn't be noticeable unless you were greater than 100 yds away. However the bullet traveling through the air creates it's own small shockwave and sonic boom (just like a whip cracking). That sound (and the sound of the impact) would reach the target before the actual sound of the bullet. Hope that helps explain it a little...

Answer 13

Yeah, I was shot once but it was at point blank range so the sound of the bullet was irrelevant.  All I heard was the muzzle blast.  The bullet hit my thigh.  Fortunately it was a relatively minor wound.  Initially it didn't hurt but within a few seconds the burning sensation started and it hurt like h**l.  I don't recommend the experience.

Answer 14

im preety sure ur out right away

Answer 15

When I got shot I did not hear the bullet. It happens so FAST. And then when you go back and remember that moment it felt like slow motion. i can remember everything so clear and I cold smell gun powder ...iit's hard to descride but I sure as h**l remember the pain.  

Answer 16

I have never been shot but I have stood to the side of targets, wel lout of danger by the way, and you can hear the bullet go by. It buzzes. You may be thinking about the report of the gun. Most modern firearms are supers sonic, so the bullet usually reaches the target before you hear the gun go off.

Answer 17

I've been shot at twice.  About 18 years ago during a dark and stormy night (no pun intended, it was dark and stormy and I was parked under a Salt Cedar Tree) a .22 LR bullet struck the back, left quarter panel of my patrol car.  All I heard was the dull thud as the bullet struck my patrol car.  Even longer ago a .22 rifle was fired at me.  Now that I think about it I didn't hear the 'bang,' only the whistling sound as the bullet flew past probably six to ten inches to the left of my left ear.  

Two friends of mine reported being shot during war-time.  Neither one reported anything about hearing gunfire.  Both reported not feeling anything but perhaps trauma?  One said he immediately lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital.  He took a single hit from a heavy machine gun during WWII.  That's all he knew as he was not a 'gun person.'  The other one during Viet Nam took multiple hits but did not pass out immediately and said he felt nothing but knew he was hit and exclaimed OMG! which I thought was strange because as long as I've known him he has professed (bragged about it, actually!) to be an atheist!  When I asked him about this he said it was 'just an expression!'  I didn't think to ask him if he remembered hearing gun fire.

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Answer 18

shot with a gun huh??? what kinda gun... a nail gun.. a glue gun.. water gun... great question got any more

Answer 19

ive never been shot but i imagine it would depend on the person if u where in combat fighting for ur life and a bullet hit u in the leg im pretty sure the testostoroam (pardon my spelling) would make the pain minimal and help u stay focused for a while but if u got in the vitals idk i did read in a local paper that a local was shot and he had a difibulator (thing they put in ur chest that shocks ur heart and revies u) he was shot and he had a gun in his hand and the defibulator shocked him and burst him back to life and he shot and killed the robber then he ended up dying from the bullet that killed him

Answer 20

I dont really remember if i heard the bullet but i heard him trigger it....but he was far i got shot on my arm.