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texasag93 wrote:If it was a shotgun it would have blown a hole in the barrel and the other leg might have also been hamburger.

Not necessarily

texasag93 wrote:I am glad you said that this was from another board.... I was going to suggest that you change your handle, to





hop-a-long.

or

shuffle .45


or

hole-e moley

or

anyone else?

This is a wake up call about safety. My father in law, a retired Lt Colonel, had a ND in his house so it can happen to anyone. I am trying to keep mine from happening, trying my BEST.

texasag

I'm not the OP, but I have watched many shotgun shooters rest their guns on their toes over the years and always wondered when I was going to see pics of someone having blown off a toe.

Besides the hole in the shoe not appearing to be correct for a .45 (size and shape) there is also the matter of the very obvious burns on the top side of the toes as well as the (relatively) massive avulsion of tissue through and through the affected toes. A .45 would not make that sort of wound path and nowhere near that large. I realize that it is virtually impossible to judge the size of the hole and the avulsion from what we can see, but just consider the diameter of the avulsion in relation to the great toe. If that wound was caused by a .45, then that person has pretty tiny feet.

Unless he was shooting wadcutters, that hole is way too neat to be a .45, and too large, I can believe a 20 gauge contact wound.

I got that pic from another source, and it claimed that that was a shotgun wound, the person was shooting sporting clays and rested the muzzle on his foot, and then pulled the trigger.