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

Not the eyebrow but the nose left handed; I am right handed out of a tree stand. A good bit of blood. When I went for my physical in December my Dr. Said "you have broken your nose what did you do. This was November 2011, I w as shooting my .325 WSM. GRF

Heck RC- that's better than my magnum eyebrow, shooting uphill at a moose 16 yards away, with a .338 Mag with 270/275? gr. Speer handloads.. The bullet caught him frontally just under the chin as he was reaching up for a browse morsel. The bullet exploded when it hit his spine and darned near decapitated him. Did flip him rigjht over on his back (it was a yearling).

Didn't know I was bleeding until it started dripping off my nose.

The other 3 were all with an '06, 180 grain loads.. the SAME '06! ...target shooting, at different times. Ya gotta hang on to them things!

I got my first and only scope rash from a 30-06 shooting 130 grain bullets. I had been sitting my stand all afternoon as the temp dropped down into the low teens over six hours. I sit very quiet and still. I had no idea how cold I was until the deer came out and I was shaking so bad I couldn't hold the cross hairs on him. I forced myself to relax and made the shot fine, but I didn't hold onto the rifle. When I went to gut the deer I had the rubber gloves on and the knife out when I noticed I hadn't started on the deer but I already had blood on my hands. Climbing down from the stand and walking out to the deer circulated enough blood through my cold arms and legs that I really got cold. Fortunately my partner showed up and took the knife away from me or I'd likely have cut myself too. I never felt the scope hitting me. Probably a good thing I was so cold.

Oh yes. I have a collection of scars, and it took me quite a lot of shooting and concentrating to get over the flinch. Took that bushy 3200 off the '06 that and put it on my 10/22.

Got a 416 Rigby on the way. Don't think I'll scope it at all.

Not me. It was a 45-70. My naive attempt at 458'ing a Ruger.

300Win mag, 3-10 Shepherd, 200gn TSX, 1st attempt @ a very offensive looking white rock @ 700yds out the window, over the mirror, slightly uphill. I'd shot that rifle/load quite a bit and never so much as bumped my 'brow with any of the 1/2 dozen Leupold's I'd had on top. That Shepherd went away rather quickly after season ended.

It happened only once for me. I have never been one to shy away from recoil. So, I thought I would give 3" sabot slugs a try out of my 12 gauge scopped slug gun. No blood, but damn did it hurt. Why I thought I might need 3" slugs I'll never know.

Blame Isaac Newton: "for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction".

No blood yet...but I have repeatedly had to straighten my damn glasses frames out!

But my favorite is the "baseball cap bill karate chop" to the forehead.

A magnum has never got me but my Rem 760 .30-06 with 180's got me when I was a teen. Blood dribbled all the way down into my mouth.

I've had a couple er three of those.

One at an especially inopportune time. I had jumped a buck one COLD morning and when I thru the rifle up, the hunting cap bill did the chop. Couldn't see nuttin but underside of cap bill. ughh.

Savage 110 7mm Rem Mag pkg rifle w/ Bushnell Sportview (was a poor college kid . . .). Anyway, was sighting it in just after I bought it, and go a little too comfortable - didn't hold it tight enough. Finished sighting it in once I got the blood to slow down to a slight trickle, then went to the infirmary at school - they put some butterflies (?) on it that I had to leave on for 3-4 days.

my brother played hooky from work to hunt the deer opener. he wasn't sure what he was going to use as an excuse but when he sighted his rifle in he got scoped pretty good.

went to work the next day and had a great lie- hurt his head working on his house and that's why he called off.

the janitor walked by and said "you know, that looks like a scope..."

my brother interrupted him with "yeah, does sort of look like that huh?"

lol

I've shot all kinds of "Big Guns" 458, 375, 416 etc etc, but the only one that ever "GOT" me was one of those goofy Thompson contender carbines in 444 marlin, it hit me right between the eyes and buckled my knees and I saw stars. Didn't bleed a lot but I no longer have that little gun.

Bart

TC Encore in 405 win did the deed. Crawled the stock getting in position behind a tree. It is a thumper.

I have plenty of scars on my young body. I just happen to have one partly hidden by my eyebrow from a 300 Winchester Magnum shot from an odd angle at a pig.

You mean when you were shooting your daisy the other day.....

I do have a scar from a BB that was shot at me by my older brother.

I ended up breaking the gun over his back.

That's TFF......

He hit me in the shoulder from about twenty feet away, the look on his face when I started towards him was priceless. A "Oh chit" face.

It does not help I outweigh him by twenty pounds.