help--bullet wound!

[Shurtugal]

So... um, first off, if i'm NOT in the right thread, PLEASE tell me so i can move this thing. if i AM in the right thread, PLEASE help me.
basically, i'm righting a story--book, whatever you want to call it-- and i have this part were someone gets shot. okay, i'm clueless on first aid and i was wondering if anyone on here knows ANYTHING about gun wounds or just a link to someone who does.
what info do i want?
basically, different kinds of bullet wounds; what effects (affects?) can it have; how to treat it; ect.
so, if there is anyone who knows ANYTHING or of ANY website (and the like) please, let me know. thank you!
Peace out,
rock on,
love,
~Argetlam

[Zee.]

Wrong thread, buddy

Wait...
no
right thread!

That said,
feast your eyes on my great surprise! v

http://www.chuckhawks.com/bullets_beginners.htm
http://world.guns.ru/ammo/bullets-e.htm
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~jb3/bullet/gsw.html
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/277235
http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-treat-a-bullet-wound-at-home-77608/
http://www.wikihow.com/Treat-a-Bullet-Wound

[kevinthediltz]

Depends on the caliber of the bullet. Distance away from the barrel. Where they got shot. and other things. I dont know much about gun wounds on a human. But im a hunter and a gun nut.

[hollylite]

it also depends on how you want the character to end up and all that. If you want the character to dye then make it a fatal shot or a shot where the character will lose alot of blood. Good Luck.

[kasie]

....i was wondering if anyone on here knows ANYTHING about gun wounds....~Argetlam

They bleed.

No, seriously - I hadn't considered that: the baddies on tv just fall down when they get shot.

I was sent on a First Aid course some years ago - I was sent, I didn't volunteer because I didn't want to be the Designated First Aider in my establishment but the Boss said Go, so Go I had to. I'm a tad squeamish - ok in an actual situation but over-imaginative if just talking about it. I took a deep breath and kept making lots of notes so I didn't have too much time to think about all the nasty things the tutor was describing. It was nearly the end of the morning session and I was just congratulating myself on staying upright for the whole morning, and thinking how much useful stuff I had jotted down, when I heard the tutor say, 'That just about covers it for How to stop bleeding - you're all Primary school teachers, aren't you? Don't suppose you need to know how to stop bleeding from knife wounds or gun shot wounds, do you? Ha, ha.' Oh, I think, I didn't realise gun shot wounds bleed and - bang, down I went, out cold on the floor. I came to, to hear the tutor's voice saying, 'Oh, dear, I wasn't going to cover fainting until this afternoon, but as we've got a volunteer, we might as well do it now...'

The worse bit was that another course finished while I was stretched out on the floor being 'demonstrated' on and all the course participants filed past me, grinning away, including a chap I had been in college with some years previously -and had secretly rather fancied at the time - who looked down on me and said 'Kay! Fancy seeing you here - it is Kay, isn't it? Er, what are you doing on the floor???' No chance of a sophisticated reply there!