you have famialy in the military and you hear 2 different stories. one that you hear is that a .50 calibur bullet can kill a pearson just by passing the head of at least 5 inches becuas of the air velocity pulled behind it. the other is that i can only kill by making contact to the human head.

Maybe the Ex-calibur bullet does the trick, but you have to pull it out of the stone first

Any calibre has to hit the target. There's no way that the air pressure can kill. Even 120 mm cannons don't do the trick, all they can do is to destroy ear drums and cause a great disorientation.

what about hitting the temple...having too much pressure hitting your temple can cause death

Whatup posted this identical post in the weapons forum. I will respond the same way here as I did them. It doesn't matter if it is a .22 a .45, a .50 or an 800mm artillery shell, if it don't hit, it don't hurt.

I can see where the supersonic shock wave might damage your hearing if it went by your ear, but if that's true, then it wouldn't just be the .50 caliber round that would do it. Even the .17 caliber varmint rifles would be just as capable of hurting your ears, or maybe more so, since the .17 is a faster bullet than the .50 is.

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It doesn't matter if it is a .22 a .45, a .50 or an 800mm artillery shell, if it don't hit, it don't hurt.

Actually if you remove the lead and create a "blank" and put the gun to your temple, you're toast. The explosion from the muzzle flash will do the trick.

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Actually if you remove the lead and create a "blank" and put the gun to your temple, you're toast. The explosion from the muzzle flash will do the trick.

When Jon-Eric Hexum died, it was the wadding shattering a section of skull, and the associated trauma, that killed him. He still got hit, "blank" or not.

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When Jon-Eric Hexum died,

Man, I loved "The Voyagers" as a kid, and I remember the show he was doing when he accidentally killed himself. I can't remember the name, but I remember the song, Bonnie Tyler's "I need a hero."

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it was the wadding shattering a section of skull, and the associated trauma, that killed him. He still got hit, "blank" or not.

Although reports claim it was the wadding that did it, and any source you check will probably say the same thing, ask any police officer that has ever investigated a point blank shooting. They'll tell you it was the explosion being directed to the temple by the barrel. To put it another way, imagine a bomb taped to a person's temple. But this bomb is concentrated to send all of its energy into the temple.

Although the bullet plays a big part in a point-blank shooting, if the barrel is actually touching the person getting shot, there is a huge blast wound where the bullet enters. The blast wound usually causes more damage than the bullet.

This reminds me of another actor, Brandon Lee, who was killed by a "blank." Only in Brandon's case, the gun had a bullet lodged in the barrel, where someone created a "blank" by removing the powder, but replacing the lead, and leaving the primer intact. Someone shot this pistol and the primer pushed the lead out of the brass, where it lodged in the barrel. The same gun is not checked thourghly, and isused in the next scene. Now a blank, with primer and powder, but no lead is placed in the gun. Brandon rushes in & the "bad guy" shoots him with the blank, but the blank forces the old lodged bullet out, shooting Brandon and mortally wounding him.

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Although the bullet plays a big part in a point-blank shooting,

Ehhemm.... "contact shooting", not "point-blank shooting". Point blank range for my deer rifle is over 300 yards.

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Originally posted by HUDMAN:

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When Jon-Eric Hexum died,

I remember the show he was doing when he accidentally killed himself.

There was nothing accidental about it. He was playing with a loaded gun and put it against his head and pulled the trigger. He nominated himself for a Darwin Award.

Whatup,
Go to the forum page on weapons. At the top of the page is an article by an active duty military person and weapons enthusiast.

Reading that should answer all your questions about this ridiculous notion.

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He was playing with a loaded gun

I guess the gun was loaded, but it was loaded with blanks.

I'm going to post this here, since it seems like this thread is turning in this direction. And I'm intentionally going to yell this, typing-wise, to make my point.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNLOADED FIREARM.

Remember that rule and you will do well when dealing with firearms. Doubt that rule and you will end up an early occupant of a pine box.