What kind of drugs was he on to not be howling in pain after doing it?

Another Photoshopped jober. Not enough blood (A gun doens't cauterize a wound) not enough recoil the whole is to regular etc etc etc.

I've not seen enough gunshot wounds up close to call it. However, I've seen several videos of people swallowing various calibers of bullets over the years (I'm a sick f-, but you knew that). From those, there seems to be a surprisingly small amount of "impact" recoil from point-B gunshots. Even when they're instantly relaxed from liquefied brains, they're just getting their strings cut. They're not getting blown across the floor or anything.

Not completely surprising, considering this is point blank range. A high-pressure BB gun shooting point-B at butter does the same thing, for the same reasons.

The wound's not cauterized. It's bleeding, but since he didn't seem to cut an artery, it's not spurty or anything.

As far as fake v. real, the splat under his hand and the powder burns on the palm are what sell it for me. If it is fake, cudos to him for some fantastic blue screen work.

But me, I think it's real. Which means he's FWEAKING NUTTZZ!!!

I remember reading somewhere about a guy in West Virginia who decided it was a great time to clean his guns after downing a bottle and a half of gin. He ended up shooting himself in the foot three times, and only stopped to call 911 after the third gun went off because it happened to be loaded with hollow-points, which finally set off enough pain receptors to cut through the booze fog.

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure it's a fake. I'm also pretty sure it's troll bait, so what the hell, I'll bite...

I took a close look, doing the best I could to frame-by-frame it. When he pulls the trigger, there is a bright oval superimposed over the whole shot and the slide of the "automatic" never goes back (it also looks suspiciously like an old BB gun I used to have). I don't know gunshot wounds, but I just a little about video in a very amateur sort of way and can see how it could be done.

Actually, I'm not at all disappointed it's a fake. I'm much happier in a world with goofy guys who want to scare the plebs than I am in one with a maniac who blows holes in himself for fun.