23 November 2025

Shut Up The Shooter Explained

Charlie Kirk was struck in the neck by a .30-06 round.

.30-06 will do 7d+1 pi damage.  Hollow point or soft-tip ammo will do 7d+1(0.5) pi+ damage.

If you use the Bleeding and Body Hits rules as I did in the Kennedy assassination write up, the max damage you can do is equal to the hit points, the rest carries on to whatever is behind them.

The neck is the same as the body for piercing attacks.

So...

Ball round will do 8 to 43 points of damage (25 on average).  Hollow point will do 10 to 63 (36 on average).

If Mr Kirk had 11 Hit Points (he was stocky, so maybe)...

Standard rules:  Average ball round will get a consciousness roll and a death roll.  Average hollow point will get a consciousness roll and two death rolls.

Optional rules:  Average ball hit will do 11 points of damage and get a consciousness roll and a -5 to the Health roll for bleeding.  Hollow point will also do 11 points of damage, but get a consciousness roll and -7 on the HT roll for bleeding.  With a HT of 11 that's a 6 or less to prevent 1 HP of damage every minute with a ball round or 4 or less to prevent that loss with a hollow point.

Using the standard rules, it GURPS.

Using the, optional, Body Hits rules with bleeding does not.

1 comment:

  1. Kirk basically had both blood vessels on the left side of his neck blown away. Critical hit, no recovery. Catastrophic damage. Don't know if GURPS does critical hits but the .30-06 round did exactly what it was designed to do, blow a friggin huge wound channel in the target.

    Considering the round was designed to be a killing round at a thousand yards, even up to 1500 for horse-sized targets, the relative close range of the Kirk shooting was easy-peasy. The shooter was probably aiming center-mass and hit on the outer ring of his target. Or Kirk's head and it was a tad low. If Kirk did get hit in the body and survive the hit, the follow-up shot was going to kill him.

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