I have read that the possible causes of lack of exit wound is when the bullet is still lodged inside or when the entry and exit point is the same. How can a bullet enter and exit the same point?
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Bullit just hits edge of body( flesh wound) takes a small trough instead of a hole, therefore entry and exit are same? Are they not?
It still counts as an exit point if it is removed through the same point. For example if a bullet enters you and stays lodged where it is, and it’s removed through that same entry point, it would technically have the same entry and exit point. The same would apply if the bullet was in fairly superficially and the body rejected it out of the same hole. Bodies can reject foreign objects by bringing them up to the skin and pushing them out.
Bullets can also ricochet off of internal structures like bones or if you have a steel plate or implant, but it would be extremely unlikely that it would turn it around enough to exit out of the same point.
Otherwise, there’s no way that a bullet traveling into the body could turn itself completely around or reverse and exit out of the same hole within the same gunshot it entered with.
Sure, a bullet can bounce off a bone: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-25-me-54554-story.html
> “The bullet didn’t enter his skull and the shot to his chest bounced off his breastplate bone,” said Sgt. Charles Evans of the LAPD’s Foothill Division. The man was treated for superficial wounds at a local hospital and released, Evans said.
It depends on many factors, but ultimately boils down to the design of the bullet, how much energy is behind the bullet when it hits, and where it hits.
A bullet entering your body will already not travel in a straight line, because it has to push through your body’s tissues. A bullet with enough energy will punch through bones and shatter them, possibly passing through you. A bullet impacting with less energy may ricochet off bones, and its path inside your body is extremely unpredictable.
To be sure, it’s extremely unlikely that a bullet will enter and exit at the same point. That would be a freak accident, apart from the circumstances that caused someone to be shot in the first place. But in a medical or forensic scenario, when you’re counting the number of entry wounds / exit wounds and working out how many projectiles should be lodged inside the body, it is a possibility to keep in mind.
it cant. unless the body is rapidly rotating in space. like imagine someone being launched forward after an extremely powerful impact and the body is rotating through the air at the same time a bullet happens to penetrate it… bullet has its own momentum and the extreme speed of it all causes the bullet to penetrate a few centimeters and exit rapidly… otherwise it would be impossible for the exit wound to be the same as entry point. like… physic no work heah lol.
or maybe now im thinking two bullets go in in a straight line through exactly opposite positions, one bullet makes the other one bounce back and goes out the same way but this is Matrix territory now…
It’s possible (although rare) for a bullet to ricochet off a bone.
So technically it could enter, ricochet off a bone, and come back out through the same hole. Highly unlikely, but possible.
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