Record number of times someone has been shot, and survived?

[BigRugerLover]

"The current record is an armed robber in Chicago who absorbed thirty-three rounds of 9mm in the chest and head, one round of 12 gauge buckshot, and one 12 gauge solid shot before he went down; this total does not include rounds that missed."

U.S. Concealed Carry Association (2011-12-09). Concealed Carry Legal Defense: After You Defend Your Life, Be Prepared to Defend Your Freedom (Kindle Locations 353-355). Delta Media, LLC. Kindle Edition.

K.L. Jamison is the author of the article.

 

[jmace57]

Don't forget an oldie but a goody...Cole Younger - with 11 bullets.


(Oh, and how about Robocop!)

 

[Trent]

Whoa!

I thought I was paranoid with a spare mag next to the handgun.

 

[wacki]

and one 12 gauge solid shot before he went down

What is solid shot? Slug or bird shot?

 

[wacki]

Whoa!

I thought I was paranoid with a spare mag next to the handgun.

No kidding. Benavidez got hit 37 times and was still going. Gotta wonder how many bullets Benavidez + PCP would take....

Bayonets do way more damage than any bullet. Although I'm sure this is a statistical anomaly, it seems like you need an assault rifle (whatever that is) and three 30-round mags to take out certain folks of extraordinarily high constitution.

 

[wacki]

Just bought the book on kindle. Got any recommended search words?

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[Killian]

Baby Face Nelson. Can't remember how many times he was shot, and he did die soon after. But not before he walked across a road and killed a couple of police officers. He was shot, I believe, several times with a .45 Thompson before he did so.

 

[GCBurner]

In 1916, Rasputin was shot, stabbed, beaten, poisoned with cyanide, and finally wrestled down to the frozen river and killed by being shoved through a hole in the ice to die from drowning.

 

[Gun Geezer]

Matt Dillon was shot like 195 times over a 20 year period. A little older at the end, but still kickin bad guy tail!

 

[robowo]

Marine Corps pilot and Medal of Honer recipient Pappy Boyington had 54 wounds from bullets and shrapnel after being shot down by the Japanese in WWII. After he parachuted into the water, he was strafed by 4 Japanese fighter planes. He had trouble getting into his life raft after finding dozens of holes in his life vest. After several hours he was picked up by a Japanese sub. One ear was almost completely shot off and part of his scalp was hanging over his face. He then spent 20 months in prisoner of war camps being beaten regularly until the end of the war. He survived even though he received minimal medical care for his wounds.

 

[Killian]

Pappy Boyington had 54 wounds from bullets and shrapnel after being shot down by the Japanese in WWII.

That's another reason why I'd never try to knock that battery off his shoulder. (Old reference)

 

[bill3424]

Some of these stories really shock the crap outta me.

 

[Brockak47]

Damn

 

[Akita1]

In CJ CHivers' book "The Gun" he documented the case of an Afghani bodyguard who survived 23 close range gunshot wounds from multiple assailants with Kalashnikovs. That has got to be some kind of record. Chivers interviewed this hardy soul, who now lives in Canada.

Off topic - great book! Found that part one of the most interesting. Have reread it a few times because there is so much info in it.

 

[Akita1]

That's another reason why I'd never try to knock that battery off his shoulder. (Old reference)

HA! Loved that show, if nothing else for the Corsairs...

 

[iLikeOldgunsIlikeNewGuns]

Jmace57 +1 for Cole Younger. He might not be the 'winner' of this thread (lol) but he was the first that came to mind as soon as I saw the thread. 11 times including right in the face and lived! Late 1800s medical-technology and sterility no less

 

[vtail]

Matt Dillon was shot like 195 times over a 20 year period. A little older at the end, but still kickin bad guy tail!

And I think it was always in the same shoulder.

Now, THAT'S tough.

 

[JohnBT]

"Some of these stories really shock the crap outta me."

Roy Sullivan started working as a park ranger in Shenandoah Nat. Park in 1936. Between 1942 and 1977 he was stuck by lightning SEVEN times.

He shot himself in 1983 at age 71 - over a woman.

 

[xfyrfiter]

BG in Montery years back, was shot 19 times all to the body, and survived to spend the rest of his life in prison.

 

[piece of meat]

Some of these stories i just dont buy, they must have been exaggerrated to the extreme, esp some of the war ones..your telling me the guy got strafed by a plane all over the chest, plus other injuries,and didnt die? Another guy thirty plus rounds including 7.62 rounds, multiple hits from rifles, machine guns, bayonettes and shrapnel and didnt die? Guys shot 33 times with 9mmu including in the face and is still fighting? Im sure they were all tough guys, but surely something is not quite right here..

 

[Odd Job]

Most holes I've seen in one guy (excluding shotgun injuries) was 10. That guy survived.
But 10 holes doesn't necessarily mean 10 shots, it could be much less than that. Hell, it could be two lucky shots or even one incredibly lucky shot...

 

[Arp32]

A friend of mine was just on a jury where the defendant had been shot by police 16 times. The guy finally went down after being hit in the face with a load of buckshot. She said it was unreal.

 

[berettaprofessor]

Emmett Dalton (Dalton Gang) was shot 23 times in the bank raid on Coffeyville Kansas and lived.

 

[JohnBT]

Aw, what's a few little bullets anyway?

Phineas Gage took a 13-pound tamping bar through the head and lived. He was packing explosive in a hole when it went off and blew the tamping bar through his head.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Phineas-Gage-Neurosciences-Most-Famous-Patient.html

"43 inches long, 1.25 inches in diameter and weighing 13.25 pounds—shot skyward, penetrated Gage’s left cheek, ripped into his brain and exited through his skull, landing several dozen feet away.

The year was 1848, so it wasn't advanced medicine that saved him.

 

[piece of meat]

Hans Schniedelwissen in ww1 was recorded as having wandered into no mans land during the battle of verdun, where he reportedly sustained repeated hits from the maxim machine guns..he wouldnt fall so supposedly after some time a mortar hit near him and exploded. He was later found alive on the battlefield with over 68 wounds from the maxims and completely without legs from the mortar blast. Later as he was being carried on stretcher they were ambushed by a group of tommies...who proceeded to kill everyone in his group. Hans was later found with a further 39 wounds from point blank thompson machine gun fire yet was still alive...he is still with us today at the ripe old age of 109.