I would be careful about calling (that website calling) QuickClot a "flop" based on these handful of incidents in this one report (from 2003). Reports from actual users are valuable, but user comments can also lead to erroneous conclusions, too. For example, QuickClot does mention in its literature that puncture wounds, like a small gunshot entrance wound, can be problematic because it is hard to get the product down to the actual site of heavy bleeding. That's a problem to the person bleeding out, yes, but not necessarily a failure of the product, particularly when that limitation was known before the product was distributed to the troops. More open wounds, like a cut or laceration, or wounds with less blood flow are where products like QuickClot generally do better. Short of sticking a hemostat into your thigh to clamp off the femoral artery, I don't think that there are any products out there that do well in such a situation.