Hacker News Reader

He kicked back hard, so the shooter was using a powerful rifle, I suppose a sniper rifle. Wound is huge, not a pistol wound.

He was shot in the neck because the shooter is amateur and didn't account for the bullet drop on this distance.

View on HN

This isn't call of duty, a basic hunting rifle will do the same holes as a "sniper rifle"

I did not say it was something like an m82. I just wanted to say I believe it wasn't a pistol.

There are handungs used for defense against brown bears, look at 10mm, or even 500 mag, 454 casull, you can shoot this from a handgun. It's very unlikely to be the case here but you wouldn't be able to tell just from the damages

https://youtube.com/shorts/JluEbL5H48o

Reply on news.ycombinator.com