Gunpowder to wound
Who thinks it's remarkable to heal a wound with gunpowder?
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A similar scene was used in 1989's The Killer.
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Beating both of those examples to the head of the line was Clint Eastwood, who does the gunpowder technique in "two mules for sister sara", way back in 1970. He had to get drunk first though, unlike rambo, who just gets through the pain by making animal noises: "HUUUUARRRAGGGHHHH!". That's the correct spelling of that sound, btw.
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It wouldn't have worked. Gun powder won't ignite when wet, so pouring it into a bloody wound makes it useless. And even if it did ignite, it would have just burned on the surface rather than the flame traveling through the entire wound channel. The only way it could have worked as shown onscreen is if he had some non-existent waterproof gun powder and somehow managed to line the entire wound channel with it (obviously not quick or easy to do, even if he had enough gun powder to do it, which he didn't).
Also, bullets can not be removed from the case that easily, especially with military cartridges, in which the bullets are tightly crimped to the mouth of the case. You can do it with a reloading press by removing the die, putting the cartridge in the case holder, pulling the lever down to raise the cartridge up through the opening in the top (where the die would normally be), clamping onto the bullet with Vise-Grips, and then raising the lever to pull the case down off the bullet. And sometimes even that doesn't work, because you can't always get a good enough grip on the bullet with the Vise-Grips. You could never do it by whittling at it with a knife.
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