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

Don't you mean it does help?

Yes I do! Thank you, Sir. I am not one to type to fast, too many mistakes.

I maybe wrong but I beleave Bob Milek sead this first.

I wear one from the bench with a 338 win mag, leupold compact 3x9 and a little stock crawl'n and WHOP... Did not bleed to bad.

Had a buddy wack himself real good with his 338rum. Uphill prone shot, dropped the deer. Looked like the shooter bleed more that the deer did!!!

Scars are more manly than tatoos I was told

The mag eyebrow not wacken kin.

I've told this before, but I was hunting last year (or was it year before last?) with a Ruger 30-06 with said bushy 3200 scope on board. The buck came by at very last light and was moving quickly though a narrow opening. I was not at the proper angle and the buttpad was on my bicep rather than the shoulder, and WAP! Ruined a nice pair of thinsulated deerskin gloves and got blood all over my clothes. It was running off the end of my nose, not dripping. It took a couple weeks for that one to close up. Probably should have gone and had stitches installed.

Believe I'll install the NECG peep on the 416 and call it good.

I (thankfully) never have, though I've shot plenty of Big Bores and magnums. Maybe that's the secret... I'm defensive when I shoot them!

But my second son has twice... from the same rifle, same load, same circumstances. On 2 moose hunts with his Rem 700 in 338 WM. The 3 - 9 X 40 Leupold got him! First time above the eye and second time on the nose... blood both times, but he was unaware of it until I told him!

But the worst I've witnessed was quite a few years ago at a military range in Nova Scotia just outside Halifax. About 100 hunters were sighting in rifles and all from prone. The guy on my right was well built in his 30's, shooting a handloaded lever-action Winchester in 45-70, with a BIG scope... from PRONE! (I did mention that didn't I?).

At the command to "commence firing" all sorts of pandemonium broke loose and I just happened to notice that the big guy with the big gun and the big scope wasn't shooting anymore... in fact he was out cold with what looked like a large dose of red liquid oozing from his forehead! Then came the command: "cease fire"!!!

It was funny... but not!

Bob

www.bigbores.ca

I loaded three, 30 grain pellets of 777 while sighting in a BP rifle. Problem was, the pellets were stacked two high in the package and were lightly stuck together. So those three pellets were ACTUALLY 6 pellets or 180 grains! That's 30 grains over maximum load!
I was not expecting what happened next!

The barrel held up but the Nikon kissed my forehead and drew blood.

I've gotten it three times while shooting at game. Once on an awkward angle with my 45/70, once while shooting prone with my muzzleloader in NW Iowa in late season, once in Colorado by my sporter weight 300 RUM and 200 gr Accubonds. That one was a 589 yard shot on an elk that required a less than firm hold in order to be steady due to the angle of the only rest available. Got my game all three times. I've been nailed at the range once by an Encore .375 H&H and once by a model 70 264 WM.

My ex-BIL manages 1-2 per year. No matter what scope he uses on his ML or 30-06, he is hunkered down within 2in of the scope.

I always asked if he was sure that he was right eye dominant and he said that he could never figure it out(even with the thumb test)

Who knows!

I have had one and it hurt like hell!

I let a buddy shot my Marlin 336 in 35 Remington with a 3.5 power Weaver scope on it. He was shooting prone and I was just about to tell him he was creepping up on the scope when the gun went off and his head just dropped. He was out cold and bleeding like a stuck pig!
Andy

Not a rifle. 12 Gauge 870 Remington, 3" 2 oz #4 turkey load. I was laying prone on the side of a small drainage ditch with my buddy calling from behind me. The Tom came from my right and I shoot left handed so I was in an awkward position. I shot when the birds head filled my 2 1/2 power scope at 10 yards. It was my very first turkey and I was so excited that I didn't even realize that I was bleeding until my partner told me.

Does anybody remember the old Weatherby catalogs they used to print years ago?(1960's) They would put out a copy every other year or so with Weatherby owners showing off their trophies from around the world. Myself and my grade school hunting buddies would drool over the pictures for hours.....for grins I would take a fine line pencil and draw little circular stitch marks above all their shooting eyes.....we thought it was funny. I think we were just jealous that we wern't the ones posing with all those nice critters.

Depends on where they are. But there ain't nobody gonna tatoo my circumsized "thing"....