Mell Can a shotgun blow a leg off?
Yes, a 12 gauge shotgun slugs can mostly remove a limb, depending where and how you hit it. At least on a deer. On a larger human, probably not completely detach it, but if it hit bone on the way through, there wouldn’t be alot holding the arm on, just the meat.
Why do shotguns do so much damage?
The momentum imparted to the bullet by the gun is what makes a gun able to do so much damage. The momentum of an object equals its mass times its velocity. The momentum of an object, and therefore its ability to cause destruction, can be increased by making the object more massive or by making it go faster.
What does a shotgun do to a body?
Where the barrel of the shotgun is in hard contact with the head, a large volume of gas also enters the cranium – the effect of which is one of massive destruction. The explosive effect disrupts the cranium and its contents, so that pieces of skull and brain tissue are spread over a wide area.
What happens when you get shot in the head?
A shot directed towards it causes immediate death. Injury to the amygdala or the hypothalamus leads to problems in retaining and retrieving memory. And yes, this is what is most commonly exploited in the daily soaps that your grandma loves so much.
What happens when you put a shotgun in your mouth?
figure 8.1 A shotgun blast can be very destructive. This man stuck the gun in his mouth. figure 8.2 Tight contact shotgun wound of the chest. All of the gunpowder is inside the wound. The wound edges are abraded and there is a thin linear abrasion on the upper right from the muzzle.
What kind of damage can a shotgun blast do?
A shotgun blast can be very destructive. This man stuck the gun in his mouth. Tight contact shotgun wound of the chest. All of the gunpowder is inside the wound. The wound edges are abraded and there is a thin linear abrasion on the upper right from the muzzle.
How to describe a shotgun wound to the neck?
The wound edges are abraded and there is a thin linear abrasion on the upper right from the muzzle. figure 8.3 Loose contact shotgun wound and a larger, more ragged exit wound. figure 8.5 This loose contact suicide wound to the neck is larger than expected because the neck was bent over the barrel. Most of the decedent’s face was blown out.