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    Default AK Bullet Removed from Forehead with Pliers

    That's gonna' leave a mark.

    "A Russian soldier may have taken a bullet to the head, but he remains incredibly calm as it is pulled out without any medical equipment. The warrior was reportedly caught in AK-47 crossfire between Russian and Chechen militants during the war in 2000."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken View Post
    That's gonna' leave a mark.

    "A Russian soldier may have taken a bullet to the head, but he remains incredibly calm as it is pulled out without any medical equipment. The warrior was reportedly caught in AK-47 crossfire between Russian and Chechen militants during the war in 2000."

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    Think of all the women he's going to get, with that story. Hey Ken.....I think you should try it!
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    Whoa. I wonder what the physics behind this were, for him to have the bullet stop dead against his skull like that. Did it go through a helmet and stop once it hit bone? Maybe the angle was oblique enough? I was always under the impression that an AK bullet anywhere in your head has a pretty good chance of killing you outright, and leaving you without much of a head, for that matter...

    How on earth did this guy survive? Good fortune to him I suppose!
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    Could be any number of things. The helmet absorbing most of the energy, a ricochet, a defective cartridge. Who knows. I think the real point is that this is solid proof that those Ruskys are every bit as hard headed as many of us were raised to believe

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    Quote Originally Posted by GreatUsername View Post
    Whoa. I wonder what the physics behind this were, for him to have the bullet stop dead against his skull like that. Did it go through a helmet and stop once it hit bone? Maybe the angle was oblique enough? I was always under the impression that an AK bullet anywhere in your head has a pretty good chance of killing you outright, and leaving you without much of a head, for that matter...

    How on earth did this guy survive? Good fortune to him I suppose!
    Nawwwwww, those freakin Russians are just hard headed

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    Dude needs to buy a lottery ticket with that kind of luck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit View Post
    Think of all the women he's going to get, with that story. Hey Ken.....I think you should try it!
    2D'll even volunteer to fire the shot! C'mon 2D, he's a lawyer, nothin' in there to damage!......
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    I going with hard headed.......and lucky!
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    Can we nickname him "Avil-head Ivin?"
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    my take:

    either the slug was at the extreme end of its range..........it 'ricochetted' .............

    or the dumbasses had been firing their weapons into the air to celebrate ???

    either way, the projectile had 'run out of steam'....anything else under 300 yards and he'd be a dead man............
    "use enough gun......"

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