I'm an avid shooter. Also been shot at. A bullet passing by you, does nothing to you. All you hear is it whizzing by. There's no sonic boom as it goes by. A bullet going through the ear of an animal just makes a neat, little, round hole. Like a hole punch in paper. It takes several inches of flesh for an expanding bullet to start expanding. It takes 7-9 inches of flesh for a FMJ to start to tumble. An ear is nothing.