Firearms questions

[Nightfoot]

First, how long would someone need to be undiscovered after a head shot? I'm unable to go anywhere remote and live about a mile or so from hospital so an ambulance could arrive quickly.
Second, how do I avoid the flinch? I've dry fired numerous times, but realize it's going to be a different story with a loaded weapon and likely shaking hands from nerves and SI?

 

[LaVieEnRose]

A proper head shot should be immediately fatal. People have shot themselves in public in front of a large crowd.

I don't know how to minimize the flinch. That's why shotguns are preferred I guess. Compensates for that.

Immediate death seems to be the best way to go on paper, better than delayed methods like SN, but in its own way the sheer intensity of it seems like a ginormous obstacle.

 

[gottacheckout]

If I decide to do it via gunshot if do it intraorally. That way my mouth can help stabilize the barrel.

 

[Nightfoot]

A proper head shot should be immediately fatal. People have shot themselves in public in front of a large crowd.

I don't know how to minimize the flinch. That's why shotguns are preferred I guess. Compensates for that.

Immediate death seems to be the best way to go on paper, better than delayed methods like SN, but in its own way the sheer intensity of it seems like a ginormous obstacle.

If, for some reason, I missed the brain stem I wonder how long it would take to die?

 

[R. A.]

If, for some reason, I missed the brain stem I wonder how long it would take to die?

If you manage to induce hypoxia, probably not long. If you don't - a very long time because you'd be bleeding to death if anything.

 

[gottacheckout]

If, for some reason, I missed the brain stem I wonder how long it would take to die?

Depends on the gun and where it hits the brain. A shotgun with a slug or 00 or 000 buckshot is one of the most effective way to ctb. Lost all hope rates it at 99% effective. If bet that the 1% were either using birdshot or made an attempt under the chin and flinched so they just shot their face off.

Using a handgun it's not as effective, almost but not quite, regardless of the caliber. I won't use anything smaller than a 9mm/357/38.

I have several guns to choose from and my first choice is my mossberg 500 pump with an 18.5 inch barrel. That is if I decide on this option.

 

[Nightfoot]

Depends on the gun and where it hits the brain. A shotgun with a slug or 00 or 000 buckshot is one of the most effective way to ctb. Lost all hope rates it at 99% effective. If bet that the 1% were either using birdshot or made an attempt under the chin and flinched so they just shot their face off.

Using a handgun it's not as effective, almost but not quite, regardless of the caliber. I won't use anything smaller than a 9mm/357/38.

I have several guns to choose from and my first choice is my mossberg 500 pump with an 18.5 inch barrel. That is if I decide on this option.

I have access to a pump 12 gauge shotgun but have never used one before so I have been thinking about using a .357. The fact that handguns aren't as effective as shotguns worries me, though. I planned to go intraoral.

 

[gottacheckout]

It's always preferable to use a gun you have experience with but I know a couple people whose first shot ever was a successful head shot.
The difference in success rates in small, just a few percentages points so a handgun is still mid 90%. I think that a lot of the failed attempts with handguns is a temporal shot where the person flinched and the bullet only hit one hemisphere.

 

[Nightfoot]

Immediate death seems to be the best way to go on paper, better than delayed methods like SN, but in its own way the sheer intensity of it seems like a ginormous obstacle.

Yes it does. I don't even know if I could pull the trigger. Very scary to think about.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

Practicing dry firing will avoid the flinch.

Best kind of practice is to do it every day for at least a an hour per day total focus . Can't do an hour then 5 minutes build up to it fast "pomodoro" technique

Doing it repeating it thousands of times will reprogram the brain

using a high powered rifle or shotgun will explode the head if hit the head not just the face. Especially if over 2700 foot pounds of energy . If the head explodes it's instant Death Non-existence forever

By comparison a 9 mm handgun has 362 foot pounds of energy

 

[Liebestod]

I think that a lot of the failed attempts with handguns is a temporal shot where the person flinched and the bullet only hit one hemisphere.

Approximately 83% of people who survive self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head use either intraoral or submental.(JAMA Opthomology 2014 study). So the majority of SUCCESSESFUL attempts with handguns are temporal not the other way around. The sample size in the study was 18, which yes is small but than again surviving a self inflicted gunshot to the head is extremely rare. Like essentially 1% rare.

 

[gottacheckout]

I didn't see where they gave any numbers regarding successful attempts.

 

[hippiedeath]

So would a firearm shot, aimed inside the mouth, be considered a contact shot? I'm asking because in the mouth, the muzzle may not be touching anything.

 

[gottacheckout]

So would a firearm shot, aimed inside the mouth, be considered a contact shot? I'm asking because in the mouth, the muzzle may not be touching anything.

I've never thought about it.