Research for novel. Bullet wound to stomach.
Posted: Thu 24 Feb, 2011 2:54 am
I'VE JUST FOUND THE ANSWER I NEEDED TO THIS ONE ON ANOTHER FORUM.
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO TOOK THE TROUBLE TO REPLY!
Hello and thanks to anyone who can answer this. It seems impossible to get a sensible answer from google.
For the sake of a novel I'm working on, I need to know if it is at all feasible for a person to be shot in the stomach with a relatively small bullet by a sharpshooter some distance away, (about 200 yards) and survive if medical attention is forthcoming within about half an hour.
Further, is it possible for a bullet to punch a neat little hole, lodge in the stomach wall and possibly even cauterize the wound on its way in?
It's a fantasy novel but I don't want to take too many liberties by bringing in magic this and alchemical that.
And as a bonus (this is where I'm nasty to my characters) does anyone have a realistic idea of what the pain would actually feel like? ie - would it be an almighty, dull ache? Would it be more like a burning sting? Would a person curl up and writhe or would they just lie on their back and moan a bit?
There's so much crap on the net when you ask questions like this. People start going on about intestines and the colon and it's like, who said anything about intestines? The question is about the actual stomach.
Anyway, many thanks to anyone who replies.
MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO TOOK THE TROUBLE TO REPLY!
Hello and thanks to anyone who can answer this. It seems impossible to get a sensible answer from google.
For the sake of a novel I'm working on, I need to know if it is at all feasible for a person to be shot in the stomach with a relatively small bullet by a sharpshooter some distance away, (about 200 yards) and survive if medical attention is forthcoming within about half an hour.
Further, is it possible for a bullet to punch a neat little hole, lodge in the stomach wall and possibly even cauterize the wound on its way in?
It's a fantasy novel but I don't want to take too many liberties by bringing in magic this and alchemical that.
And as a bonus (this is where I'm nasty to my characters) does anyone have a realistic idea of what the pain would actually feel like? ie - would it be an almighty, dull ache? Would it be more like a burning sting? Would a person curl up and writhe or would they just lie on their back and moan a bit?
There's so much crap on the net when you ask questions like this. People start going on about intestines and the colon and it's like, who said anything about intestines? The question is about the actual stomach.
Anyway, many thanks to anyone who replies.