I will confess to being a "scope crawler" in the past and have been cut several times. It typically happened when shooting off a bench and trying to apply as little pressure as possible to the firearm to get the best group possible, also while wearing light weight clothing not typical of the hunting clothing I wear, causing an unusually short length of pull. The worst cuts were from an old Remington 760 30-06 that had a Weaver 2 1/2-7x scope that had little eye relief and very sharp optical eye piece.

I have stopped shooting with the light holds of the past, have started adding padding/spacer to the butt of the rifle when shooting with only a shirt on and have not had any trouble with lightweight 7mm Rem Mag, lightweight 338-06, 35 whelen and a 375 H&H mag. I will say I have had a bump or two to my shooting glasses in the last 20 years or so with the heaviest of loads in the 7mm mag and the 338-06 mention because of their light weight but nothing serious .

Last edited by VaHunter; 11/18/22.