I was always curious about this. My guess has been once every season, so maybe seven?

Anyone know for sure?

Shot
S1 E17: To Be A Man - Right arm and shoulder.(bullet went in shoulder out arm)
S2 E21: D.O.A. MacGyver - Above left eye.
S3 E3: Back From The Dead-Left side of stomach.
S4 E16: Brainwashed - Left arm.
S5 E4: Cease Fire - Left side of stomach.
S5 E12: Serenity - Left shoulder.
S6 E2: Humanity - Left shoulder.
S6 E20: Trail Of Tears-Left side of stomach.
S7 E7: Good Knight MacGyver Part 2-Above left eye.
S7 E13: The Stringer- Left shoulder.
10 times total.
I hope this is what you were asking.

Left was never his good side anyway.

I agree! Perhaps he had a sign on him that said "if you are going to hurt do it to my left side".

Thanks Mac's Girl, I always wondered, I knew it was a few but WHOA He really got lucky- 10 times and never a center of mass shot, that's some bad guys with some bad aim and a good guy with some very good luck!

Glad I could help. Me, I'm surprised that the man never got permanent brain damage.

Strictly speaking, Mac was shot seven times. The gunshots in 'Serenity' and 'Good Knight MacGyver' weren't real. And the bullet in The Stringer missed him as he dived over the railing, after which he fell down and broke his arm.

I beg to differ with you on that Traveller. In the Stringer the bullet grazes his shoulder because he grabs it before he falls. Also if you go into the Media Center on this site and read the script for this episode you will see that the bullet did graze him. Also as far as Serenity and Good Knight MacGyver though they happened in Mac's dreams, they still happened. I research my answers before I give them to be sure that I give an accurate response.

Did you ever wonder why they always went for the left side after the first season? I think it could be that for a right handed person it would really have made things (macgyverisms and such) more difficult for him.

They had to work with the broken wrist in first season and we all saw him drive the manual jeep with the right arm in a sling (which really sucks by the way) so maybe they decided to make things easier him in the future and just go for the left side....I don't know, just random thoughts.

Sounds like a plausible answer.

There's the exception of Stricktly Business though. His entire right side of his face was bloodied.

But if he is right handed, I'd say that would be his weakness because it's his good side. Shooting his right hand would make things more difficult but of course maybe too difficult in case of opening a SAK or tearing a piece of ductape.

You're right macgyversgirl, I looked it up in the Media Center: the bullet grazed his shoulder in The Stringer.
But I maintain that the shots in Mac's dreams don't count, because they didn't really happen.

I don't see why not because though they happened in dreams they STILL happened.

Okay. Say you meet a soldier who just got back from a war and ask him how many times he was shot. Twice, he says. And then he remembers a dream in which he was shot in the head and killed. And in another dream he was shot, too. So I have been shot four times, he says.
Would you agree with him?

Of course... not!

My point is they were shown. The question was how many times he was shot, he was shown to be shot 10 times.

Ah. If you want to play it that way, go ahead.
I stick with eight.
You count your way, I count mine.

I just call it as it is.

I don't think you can apply the the logic of reality to a TV show. Because on TV the question is really how many times do we see him get shot.

If you want to apply the logic of reality then your argument also means his name isn't actually Angus, because that also happened in a dream.

Good point.

Nice try, Rocky, but I'm afraid you're mistaken. In 'Good Knight MacGyver' it's not Mac's first name that is revealed to him in a dream, it's the name of one of his ancestors, which was Angus, just like Mac's. Mac himself has always known his own first name, and he hated it so much he preferred to be called Mac or MacGyver. For us, the viewers, the name Angus was a revelation, because when Mac finds out that his ancestor's first name was the same as his, we finally know Mac's name, too.

So I'm sorry, but if you ask how many times MacGyver was shot, I still say: eight times, and furthermore he twice had a dream in which he was shot. A tv reality is a staged reality, and a dream is still a dream. Even if they put some nice mystifications in Good Knight MacGyver and in Serenity, by leaving Mac an object from the dream.

I agree with you Rocky!
Traveller you need to sit and watch Good KNight MacGyver both parts the whole way through. Yes we all know Mac was well aware of his first name all his life but we weren't untill it was spoken and therefore revealed to us in the dream portion of part 2. The only referrence to his name in these 2 episodes were that his ancestors had the same first name as he has however the name was not said.
In both times he was shot in the dreams they had a bearing on his reality, not ours, therefore they count for this list and question. Besides if you want to get that technical about it how do YOU explain the dream knife in Serenity appearing on his floor when he wakes up AND in Good Knight MacGyver the amulet from King Arthur in his pocket and the wound he got from the 'accident' being the same as the gunshot wound from the dream?

I have seen both parts of 'Good Knight MacGyver' more than once. But I doubt if you have read my last post.

The dream shots shouldn't count. If we're going to count those, then we also have to say that Mac has traveled through time, and not only Mac, but also Penny, Pete, Jack and Murdoc. Obviously they didn't, because it was just a dream, so by the same logic, Mac was not shot.

However we are not talking about time travel. As I have said the question was asked how many times he was shot and I answered it as it was in the show. There was nothing in the question about time travel, names, or reality versus dreams, only the amount of times he was shot. For cryin out loud why all this other stuff.
I'm sorry but I do not see the logic in the time travel thing. Where did that come from anyway.
As far as your last post Traveller I DID read it and honestly I don'y get your point with it either.

That's why I opened my topic about his first name. You can discuss it over there.

it should be called MacGyver bullet proof

actually he wasnt shot in the cowboy one because the sak blocked the bullet

Actually he was shot and the knife blocked it. Mac version of a bullet proof vest maybe.

The question is asking how many times we've seen MacGyver get shot.

I don't think the kind of episode or story is relevant to that question because regardless of what the story is we still see it happen.

If the question was asking how many times within the MacGyver reality, then it would be, but because the question is asking how many times we, the viewers, have seen him shot, then it's not relevant.

Possibly the question needs to be reworded to make it clearer.