[Legs]

I have been shot at several times and robbed at gunpoint, etc...but I have actually been shot as well.  Shotgun blast across a water hole during dove hunting season.  No birds in the air, either.  Guy had a 12 guage and arced the barrel just enough to clear the hole and pepper me on the other side.  Stung like mad.  Pockmarked my shotgun stock depply and drew blood along my arm and shoulder.  Put holes in my bird pouch, too.  Good thing I was wearing a long sleeve heavy shirt and that I saw the muzzle flash just as he fired.  Had I not looked away I'd be blind today.  There is no chance that he wasn't intenting to rain on me.  The full brunt of the spray hit exactly on my position and the dirt all around me was showered.  I was hunting as was checking the skies, and as I said, there were no birds.  I sat up to return fire but was stopped by the cop I was with at the time.  He went to find the shooter but the guy ran off into the trees on his side and skipped.  I can say I know what it feels like to take bird shot and a more-than-close-enough range for my liking.  I can't imagine buckshot at closer distances.
This was in AZ, about 15 years ago, and it immediately hurt like crazy.  I am sure that a direct hit from a larger single projectile could have more of a numbing effect initially with pain following later, but in this case it felt like an airsoft support weapon at point blank range firing about 200 rounds at once...

[leadmagnet]

Paco, your curiosity is understandable.  It is completely natural.  A deputy once asked me that question and a couple months later he took a .357 through a wrist and into his belly at a McDonalds.  I still kid with him now and then about that one whenever I run across him.  

I've been involved in several shootings but only one where I got hit.  I've also had a people try to stab me with various weapons.  Believe me though, I'm not bragging.  It isn't something you look back on with fond memories.  It sorta sucks.

I'm sure there are others here who have been shot but have declined to comment.  The thing is, getting shot is sorta like getting raped (not that I've ever been raped but I've investigated a few cases and talked with the victims about it).  You feel violated in such a way that you generally don't like to talk about it.  Also, even when you did everything right but still managed to take a hit, you just can't get over the feeling that you f'ked up.  You go over these types of experiences a million times in your head afterwards too.

Well, anyway, I got hit twice (five or six round burst) from a full auto Ingram M-10, .45 caliber, from about fifteen feet away.  Both wounds were grazes.  Right bicep and love handle on right side.  About one inch over and I would be able to carry my right arm around in a tote bag.  Not serious wounds though.  The pain I felt when I went down on my knees to take cover hurt A LOT more and made me think I had also been shot in both legs for a short instant.  I was afraid to look at the wounds at first for fear that I would faint, lol.   What can I say, I was a stupid kid.  The suspect got away but was later apprehended in Phoenix.

Unknown to me, the suspect had just shot at and robbed an armored truck guard in Vegas while the guard was headed to his truck.  You may recall a female FBI agent getting killed by her fellow agents in Phoenix around 1985.  That occurred when they caught up with the suspect down there a short time later.   The suspect ended up getting a long prison term.

There is more to the story, but I think I'll save it for when we're sittin around a campfire.  real creepy, too.

Lead

[Harley]

I've been stabbed a couple times but not shot at.  I have had guns pointed at me, but luckily managed to get them to re-think what they were doing.  I did almost take a 9mm in the forehead though.  A ricochet came straight at me and had slowed down enough that I could see it coming and allowed me to dodge it just in time.

[Basher]

Back when I was younger and much more stupid, my friends and I would go down to our park to play airsoft (after 10pm when the lights were out). Well, we had been playing for a bit, and then one of the guys saw this kid come walking into the park with what looked like a scoped rifle. Turns out the kid, age 14, was high on pot and decided to come down and play with us. He didn't understand a thing we said to him, and he even let one of the guys look the rifle over to make sure it was real (.22 rifle). After that, we told him we were done for the night, so he went home. I never set foot in that park after 10pm again, and never played down there with my airsoft stuff either. Matter of fact, that wised me up to where I am today. That stupid mistake could have cost one of us our lives. I'm a strong opponent to playing in parks and playgrounds now.

Anyway, my mother took a load of 12 guage #7 from about 30 feet when she was about 15. He brother's buddy came over to show him his new shotgun, and so my uncle got his out as well. He thought it was empty, so he leveled it at my mom and squeezed the trigger. She waited 3 hours for her parents to get back in town to be taken to the hospital, and they dug the shot out of her. That explains we she's pretty strict about guns. She said it hurt like no other. That also explains why she taught me the respect I have for firearms.

[Paco]

Now, I am not talking about being shot by a BB gun, or getting hit by a ricochet, or hit by the seperated jacket from a bullet - I'm talking about literally being shot.

If so, location (Vietnam, street outside your house, etc), where (shoulder, arm, leg, chest, etc), what type of round (9mm, 7.62x39, HP, FMJ, etc), and circumstances (war, robbery, hold-up, etc), and general musings about it (what went through your mind, etc).  Many people who have been shot say that it doesn't really "hurt" until after tha fact or that it feels like someone's slugged you.