A fatal case of shotgun injury caused by one pellet

Leg Med (Tokyo). 2002 Jun;4(2):131-3. doi: 10.1016/s1344-6223(02)00009-3.

Abstract

A 73-year-old man was shot to death due to the misjudgment of his comrade while deer hunting. There were two wounds on the victim's body. One was a gunshot wound which had perforated his left brachium and constituted the entry wound on the outer brachium and the exit wound on the axilla. The other was the re-entry wound on the axilla just on the inner side of the former exit wound. These wounds were made by one pellet from nine-pellet-type buckshot ammunition. No other gunshot injury was found.