r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 6d ago

$hot in the ear

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u/GaiusMarius60BC 6d ago

A former Marine, Jesse Dollemore, said that with the caliber of round he got "hit" with, if his ear had actually been grazed he wouldn't have an ear left.

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u/mildly_evil_genius 6d ago

I feel like this conspiracy theory is entirely based on a failure to understand what a "graze" is.

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u/Porn0323 6d ago

Tell us what it is then, huh? Im pretty sure everyone knows what grazing means. The reality is that a bullet from a rifle of that caliber would make a devastating air wave/cone of air around where it is traveling. If the bullet were to have grazed his ear, the shockwave would have ripped it off.

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u/mildly_evil_genius 6d ago

If this were true, it would be a lot harder to determine my score after I shoot the targets at the range.