Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Who else sports a magnum eye brow?

I just receaved my leatest 243 youth rifle.

Not for me since I stopped using bushnell scopechiefs on 300 mags! I do carry a couple good ones from those days.

'magnum eye brow'

I wish I could remember which GW gave it the TITLE...

"Royal Order of the Scarlet Crescent".

I've had a couple of slight ones. I've seen others with severe.

You mean one of these? I acquired this gem from a combination of causes. I was shooting prone at an elk across a draw higher than me so my rifle was tilted upwards (300 WSM). Also, I'd put on a set of Blizzard flip-up scope caps which stick out the back of the scope almost an inch (I no longer have the rear cap in place). Put it together and whammo!

The scar came from Big Stick's 338 RUM (short bastard -grin-), and a couple of steep uphill shots on a mt goat with a short 7mm Shamu produced a steady blood stream on another occasion .

I got poked pretty hard in the eyebrow by a Leupold 2.5-8x.

Now before you say you do not believe it and tell me how much eye relief this scope has -- this was on a lightweight .375 H&H Magnum, and like Rockchuck, I was shooting prone and uphill.

The scope did not draw blood, but it sure hurt for a bit!

I moved that scope to a rifle with less recoil, and the .375 H&H Mag now wears a Zeiss Conquest 3-9x with yet another half inch of eye relief. So far, so good...

John

I bought a conquest 3-9 for the same reason. A bushy elite 4200 on my .338 WM was one of my favorite scopes optically, but 3.3" of eye relief just wasn't working from either sitting or prone shooting positions.

Rock Chuck,
Did you at least get the elk? Would be a lot of pain to go through for nothing.

I've had 30-06's smack me harder than any of my magnums. So, it's not just unique for magnums.

Worst I ever got was from a short stocked M99 Savage in .308. I didn't bleed, but I did see stars.

I never have, but I only use Leupold's, though.

Yupper. And he came with the weirdest antlers I've ever seen on an elk.
BTW - it's a darn good thing I wasn't wearing my glasses when I got whanged. That would have REALLY hurt!!

Never been cut, but then again I don't shoot any hard kickers.

Closest I've come to scope eye was with my M700 .270win. one night calling coyotes after dark using a spotlight off of a atv. Had a coyote coming in circling to my left so I had to lay across the seat of the machine and shoot while holding the spotlight in my support hand and resting against the rear rack. I got my glasses crushed against my face, but no blood and I got the coyote too.

I have always been prone to swapping shoulders with my rifle if an animal came out on the wrong side. I had a nice little buck walk out to my right one day so I swapped and went leftie to make the shot. Only problem was I was twelve years old shooting a borrowed 300WM shooting 180gr bullets. It gave me a little love tap. Those old TV view redfields were pretty sharp scopes, literally.

The only time that ever happened to me was from a buddies SKS (of all things). I was used to open sights on those, and I tend to get my cheek far up on the stock. He had one of those damned Leapers on it. Rapped me good right in the forehead. Nice cressent shaped cut.

I got bumped one time by my 338-06 gave me a small cut.

Never from a rifle....but my muzzleloader has gotten me a couple times....once I slipped just as I squeezed the trigger on a doe....a twice at the bench. Then I put a scope with more eye relief on it.

I got popped by a Rem 740 .30-06 with a jacked-up trigger and a Trashco scope.

Expat

I've got a Savage 99 in 358 Win. It will give me a fat lip if I wrap my thumb over the top of the stock while at the bench. It wears a Weaver K4-W and has never nailed me but did catch one guy at camp. He ended up at the hospital for a couple of stitches.

Dale

I took 10 shots through a 300win mag with an ANPVS-4, You had to bring your face up to open the eyecup. I am a short necked fellow and never get wacked by a scope. But the first shot with that night scope hit me hard. I shot the rest of the string and got hit each time. I think I had a pretty good ANPVS-4 flinch by the time I was done. There was a little blood, but a pretty good bruise.