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The only "neck" injury that I have seen came from high to low, transacted the pharynx/larynx the went inferior and probably hit the aorta or heart. Needless to say an American soldier lost his life that night.
The picture of an undeformed rifle round in the neck leaves me a little suspicious of how it got here. Rifle rounds traveling at 2000-3000fps don't stop in structures such as the neck and wound cavities should generally damage a lot of tissue in an object with a diameter of about 5-6in. Major vessels such as: carotid artery, IJ, and EJ. Structures like spine and larynx and of course all of the musculature to keep your head from flopping over.
If it had been a supersonic round he's likely going to be reporting from the grave. I would guess that something slowed it down or it was fired in the air and came down and entered the skin under gravity and not propulsion.
All that to say, I've seen crazy things happen, so who knows.
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"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles." — Jeff Cooper
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