No joke. That's very similar to what my knee looked like after my motorcycle accident.

Very similar damage pattern - just lower on the leg.

I would have rather been shot. Better story.

 

Who says you have to tell the (whole) truth? I'm sure that scar will support whatever you come up with. Have fun with it!

 

i was going to also......lol us three think alike

 

Apparently shattered from the shockwave. Supposedly the bullet never hit bone.

 

I was going to bring this up but got bogged down at work.

In the thread someone, apparently the attending doc that treated the victim, kept mentioning how at velocities of over 2700fps that a temporary stretch cavity is created on impact and travels through the tissue (hydrostatic shock theory?) and this cavitation is what caused the bone to shatter like it did. Can anyone with mil/law enforcement experience verify?

 

So I'm throwing a BBQ later, anyone wanna come?

 

Why did I click on that link?

 

This will give you an idea of the extent and effect of temporary stretch cavities related to gun shot wounds. I can't find a ballistic gel photo of a 5.56 round, but the graph demonstrates the various calibers, and the one photo that does show it well in the gel is a .308 round.

 

Here's a good illustration of handgun calibers

 

Great charts gobbles! I <3 me some 45. A simple back of the envelope calc yields some interesting info about k.e. and the type of penetration & wound channel I'm seeing:
K.E. from top to bottom (gr * (f/s)^2)...yes I was too lazy to convert to proper units of energy...bite me!:
86475182
78279264
108735062.5
95516520
89102250
88046875

Apparently it appears that the 357 sig has the most k.e. w/ the 147 gr 9mm the least, which coincidentally shows the 147 gr to be the poorest performer. Man, this is fascinating on how you can slice & dice the analysis. Wish I had wound channel measurements because you can then model this empirically and get some really good ideas on how the energy transfer leads to destruction.