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Old 04-20-2005, 11:57 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_Dunedan
The weapon was pointed at the floor, and any spatter or cratering would have been off-camera. Also, bullet wounds don't produce the gout of blood you see on TV; unless it's a headshot, the blood just leaks out ( or sprays if you hit an artery ) just like a bad cut. Exceptions, obviously, are frangible and high-velocity rifle bullets. A good hollowpoint might not even have exited his leg, depending upon the angle at which he was shot.
Right. It ain't at all like TV.
Only open arterial bleeds can spray blood if at all. Frangible bullets aren't much different - I'd say a high powered rifle is probably a little more likely to leave an "open" channel prone to bleeding.
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