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I just receaved my leatest 243 youth rifle.
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Not for me since I stopped using bushnell scopechiefs on 300 mags! I do carry a couple good ones from those days.
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'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.
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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!
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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 .
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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
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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.
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Rock Chuck, Did you at least get the elk? Would be a lot of pain to go through for nothing.
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I've had 30-06's smack me harder than any of my magnums. So, it's not just unique for magnums.
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Worst I ever got was from a short stocked M99 Savage in .308. I didn't bleed, but I did see stars.
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I never have, but I only use Leupold's, though.
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Rock Chuck, Did you at least get the elk? Would be a lot of pain to go through for nothing. 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!!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I got bumped one time by my 338-06 gave me a small cut.
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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.
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I got popped by a Rem 740 .30-06 with a jacked-up trigger and a Trashco scope.
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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.
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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.
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