Years ago, I was a police officer in a small town in New Mexico. We had a call to a bar fight one nite at one of the "Interesting" bars out on the edge of town. Being the first officer on the scene, as I was exiting my car, I got to watch young man get shot in the back running by a local fella. Hit him in the middle of the left shoulder blade, and lotterly took him right off his feet. He was running and landed on his face sliding in the gravel. He lived, but his shoulder blade was completly shattered, and broke a rib under it, and damaged the lung also. This was a Ruger Single Six 22 mag with, if I remember right, about a 6 or 7 & 1/2 in bbl. Actialy, it was a pretty decent shot, about 25 or 30 yds, one hand, dark with street lights, and he hit the guy running with one shot. Then turned with the gun hanging from one finger and both hands up and handed the pistol to me. Oh, the guy he shot droped the knife he had just used to cut a man from his left ear to his chin. Guess he never learned about taking a knife to a gun fight.
There was a lot more to it than I've shared here, but the DA declined to prosicute the shooter, and the one shot was turned over to the Air Police for prosicution.
It amazed me to see him taken forward off his feet like that, and then to find out the pistol was only a 22 mag with WW FMJ ammo.
Only actial instence I can remember of a shooting I seen with a 22 mag. Got a call one night about a self inflicted shooting. Was a 22mag derrenger and guy stuck it in his mouth and pulled trigger. Was a HP and it didn't exit. Victom was DRT when we got there.
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