Can you make a critical shot when you have a concussion?

[JaneGael]

I know this sounds weird, but I'm working on a story and I need my main character to be injured but not critically (yeah, writers are a viscous lot.) He also needs to make a critical shot to a small area of a moving target. I thought about playing whack-a-mole and breaking a few ribs, but I don't know if I want him hurt badly enough to require weeks of recovery time.

So can anyone help this poor guy out by telling me if I can ring his chimes and still have him together enough to make a critical shot -- after he wakes up because having to remove him from the battle is necessary. He will have a bit of time to wake up and try to stop seeing double.

Thanks in advance. :)

 

[Muppet]

Huh?

F.M.

 

[Marauder06]

I do that kind of thing with my bell rung in Call of Duty all the time.

 

[Muppet]

Damn. I just spit up my oreos and chocolate milk sir!

F.M.

 

[Red Flag 1]

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[8654Maine]

Do you mean "vicious", not "viscous"?

Blunt closed head injuries with some mental status effects may or may not affect marksmanship or CQB skills. But it sure as hell won't make it better.

 

[fox1371]

Too easy...

 

[pardus]

8654Maine is right (of course), the answer is, maybe. It's an impossible question to answer yes or no. I've had my bell rung several times, sometimes incapacitating me for <5 min, once up to about an hour, other times, didn't affect me at all apart from a lot of pain. There are a million variables.

 

[digrar]

Cut to the head, lots of blood, but a bit of a bandage, or some self administered stitches using the reflection from a bayonet to see what he is doing will have him back on the park ready to play.

 

[Muppet]

8654Maine is right (of course), the answer is, maybe. It's an impossible question to answer yes or no. I've had my bell rung several times, sometimes incapacitating me for <5 min, once up to about an hour, other times, didn't affect me at all apart from a lot of pain. There are a million variables.

So..that is what's wrong with you brother?

F.M.

 

[pardus]

So..that is what's wrong with you brother?

F.M.

HATE! lmao!

 

[Ranger Psych]

I got knocked the fuck out by a C-5 Galaxy. I remember hooking up and everything up to the 1 minute mark, then arrival at the ORP. I slashed the fuck out of my parachute and kept all the 550, moved as a buddy team up to a conglomerate squad under NVG's, reacted to contact/squad attack, and maintained sound/light discipline on complete autopilot, apparently. Least that's what my buddies said, they didn't even know I had gotten knocked out period until I got to the ORP and was like... erm, where the fuck am I? Fuck it, get on the line.

So, yes, no, who knows. Make up something cool, its fiction.

 

[x SF med]

RP.... the Galaxy was more damaged by your head that you were by the plane... weeks of repair work on the plane... weeks!

 

[Ranger Psych]

Well, considering I banged my nug on a G-5 when I worked at PANC and my primary concern wasn't that I now had a splitting headache, but that I didn't damage the aircraft..... I can support the theory.

 

[0699]

It shouldn't be a problem. I once made a 1,000 yard shot shortly after I was beheaded. I just had my battle buddy prop my head up behind my weapon. If I can do it, a little concussion can't hurt your made up character.

 

[pardus]

It shouldn't be a problem. I once made a 1,000 yard shot shortly after I was beheaded. I just had my battle buddy prop my head up behind my weapon. If I can do it, a little concussion can't hurt your made up character.

You're such a poser, that shot was only 990 yards! I measured it with my pardometer rangefinder.

 

[Muppet]

That's what I call motivated...

F.M.

 

[0699]

You're such a poser, that shot was only 990 yards! I measured it with my pardometer rangefinder.

I blame it on battle fatigue. Hell, I kinda forgot you were there at the Battle for Poon Tang.

 

[ProPatria]

Jesus this thread turned sideways. That being said, its EXTREMELY entertaining.

 

[pardus]

I blame it on battle fatigue. Hell, I kinda forgot you were there at the Battle for Poon Tang.

Yeah that was a tough one, eventually we managed to fight our way up there though.

It was Macho Grande that gave me my drinking problem though...