Yes, bullet wounds vary. I got four at once from a .30 carbine, a pistol-sized cartridge. The bullets are 110 grains.
The shot through my right foot broke bones, which healed a bit crooked. I was walking in a soft shoe with crutches in three days. I now wear an arch in that shoe or there is some aching. To this day, 34 years later, I have no feeling in the middle three toes. The entrace scar on the sole of my foot is tiny, but the exit is a three-cornered tear of two and a half inches with a deep central pit. I'm told the bullet tumbled.
The shot into my right shin was stopped by my shinbone. The bullet was easily extracted and the wound healed without incident. When it snows, my shin aches. The scar is smooth unless I flex a muscle which causes a deep dimple to appear.
The shot to my right calf went through. Surgeons threaded a tube in the wound channel to keep it open and draining. The tube was either removed or dissolved, I can't remember which. Five years later, I felt something go in my calf. It felt numb, like I'd been shot again. I pulled up my pantleg in panic, but no fresh wound. A damaged tendon had let go, I'm told. The internal damage took months to heal. Last year, another small tendon let go under pressure of a serious misstep, and again it felt like the original shot -- lots of tingling and some pain later if I put too much weight on my right leg. The entrance scar is a star the size of a nickel. The exit scar is quarter size.
The bullet in my thigh lodged just under the skin opposite the entrance. It was removed with a simple scalpel incision which left no permanent scar, even though it got the same tube as my calf. The entrance is like a dime. There haven't been problems with the thigh wound, although it took the longest to heal and offered the most pain in healing.
I was three days in a wheelchair, two weeks on standard crutches, then about three months on walking sticks. When the tendons let go, I needed a cane for at least a week, and sometimes a cane helps in really cold weather.
