What Does it Actually Feel Like to be Shot

Props to the guy who tested this and told us.

"Once the brain realizes the body has been injured, and it could be life threatening, it goes into survival mode" Why not creative mode instead? So the body literally turns invincible

Updated comment below. My daughter said it felt like a bee sting. The bullet severed a nerve and arteries, so we saw blood immediately soak through her shirt. She was only 10. She stayed calm but was losing a lot of blood so she began to come in and out of consciousness, but her eyes never closed. It was terrifying! She was paralyzed on her right upper side until they repaired her nerve, which took 6 hours. She's 12 now and doing better. She has little feeling in her right arm, has a gnarly scar from her neck to her wrist, but she does have use of her right hand and arm. I just read the comments. It was August of 2020, we had gone to the gun range that day and later that evening I asked my husband if he could site in my red dot as it was off, my daughter was in the bathroom next next to our bedroom, my husband was sitting on the bed and I was at the end of the bed, a few minutes after handing him my gun a Ruger security 9, I hear a pop, and my ears were ringing i looked at him in shock, and he says, "I didn't even pull the trigger!" We run out of the bedroom to make sure everyone was ok, and my daughter comes out of the bathroom and asks what that was? She didn't even realize she had been shot. Blood soaks through her shirt immediately as a major artery and nerve were hit. I called 911 and the dispatcher tells me to locate the wound, I take my daughter's shirt off and lay her on the ground, we put her feet on a chair and I hold her shirt on her bullet wound, she looked at me with glossed over eyes and asked me why she keeps falling asleep, her eyes never closed, which scared me horribly! She was talking to her dad who died in 2015, she said things like "I don't want to stay daddy, I want my mama." Ohmg this is hard! Why do I feel like i need to explain myself to strangers?! Im done. The police took the gun, they took our stories, and my daughter was in the trauma center alone until I was cleared! They took my husband to the police station, but cleared him that night. A gun specialist determined there was a misfire. However this could have been avoided had we checked the clip AND the chamber. He is military trained, he would constantly tell me to clear my chamber. And this happened. My daughter had to have 14 blood transfusions, had to have her heart shocked back into rhythm, and had a wound vac, and intense physical therapy. They stimulated her nerves with light shock therapy, and the pain as her nerve grew back was HORRIBLE! Thankfully though the gun had range bullets and not self defense bullets! She probably wouldn't be with us today. That's the story of my comment. I'm not sure why anyone would make that up. And I'm not sure why I felt like I needed to justify myself to strangers, it struck me in a strange way. Thinking about that night isn't something I do very often, not to mention talk about it. I didn't think there would be people who said I was lying. I guess it was so traumatic, I can't see anyone making that up about their own kid.

I was shot in Afghanistan in 2010 while serving food to the kids. Felt like someone punched me on my back initially, then I ran really fast to take a cover and had to indulge in gunfight with the militants. After like 20 minutes the rescuers arrived, then I realized that I had been shot, the pain level went from 3/10 to 8/10. But that only lasted for a few seconds as I got unconscious. That part of the muscle was sore for 2 weeks and after 4 months I was declared "fit for duty." I also know guys who were shot in the head and survived, and they told me that the pain was lesser than a headache.

I've been shot before, I was hit in a firefight betwen some security officers in a gas station and robbers. I was hit by 2 9mm to the legs. The impact felt like a weak punch, didnt feel anything imediately after that and figured I was really shot only a few minutes later, I even sprinted away no problem, then I ducked behind a car, when I sat on the ground I could feel some burning and numbness/pulsing in my leg and saw the blood in my pants. The video is right though, recovery is terrible and takes long even if it didnt hit any bone, you will always feel the area you were shot a bit differently because the bullet tore through your muscles, and my case was a best case scenario. Dont get shot kids...

“Like a small pebble was thrown at her” Chucks a huge rock at her back

I heard getting gut shot is the worst possible pain, but thankfully never found out for myself. I love your shows. They remind me of when my girls were young and I told them every day before school: "Learn something new today!" Thanks for all the knowledge~:goodvibes:

7:23 I love how the animation shows the whole cartridge inside the stomach

Just the thumbnail alone looks excruciatingly painful.

“Most people say they didn’t even feel the pain at first they only noticed when they look at the blood” Tom (Tom and jerry): is walking on air and doesn’t fall till he looks down

I asked a wounded deer once, I actually showed him the video and he told me it was pretty spot on.

came here to do research for my story and this was really helpful. Thanks!

this is a certified hood classic.

Love how they use a desert eagle as the example of a small caliber pistol

Actually, it makes perfect sense why gunshot wounds do not hurt that much. Because while a searing hot bullet is piercing through your flesh, it does it so quickly that you do not notice it. By the way, this fact is actually quite horrifying to me, because you don't immediately notice the damage, even though it is extremely damaging.

my grandpa got shot in the chin once by a hunting rifle the bullet is still in there you can litteraly feel it

Depends on the scenario. Sometimes in combat you won't even know until the gunfight is over. Adrenaline is a crazy thing

My brother, who was took a bullet three times, reported that he didn't know at first that he was hit, but when he was grazed on the neck he said it was excruciating. Being grazed hurt more than being directly hit according to him, RIP this is actually the 8 year anniversity of his passing.

Nice Information. Thank You... Very Helpfull..

0:04 I love that run and dive animation