I got nailed by a 50 caliber muzzleloader (inline) which was my cousin's rifle. His arms are shorter and he had the scope too close for my liking. I made a stalk on a small buck in the middle of a field. I had to lay prone to shoot. I thought I could hold my face back far enough to keep from getting hit. At the sound of the shot all I could see was smoke and pain. The scope had wacked me across my nose. I could feel something wet on my face and knew it was blood. I quickly walked over to the deer to make sure it was down and then walked back to my uncle's house to see my injury. I remember walking through his front door and he looked at me with a concerned look and said, "What the hell happened to you?". I didn't have to get stitches, but it did not look good.
I also got lightly tapped on the forehead by the same cousin's 300 Winchester Magnum shooting at another deer. I stopped shooting his guns after that one.
I have a few. No ink... but a few thin white round lines on my noggin. The worst was from a 375 H&H Rem. 700 from their custom shop with a really thin whippy barrel. Beautiful wood. Not a bad rifle to shoot offhand. No weight up front. I shoot righty but, from benchrest, it lifted & torqued to cut above the left eye. I tried wrapping the sling around the front rest with a bag of shot to calm it down. It broke the front sling swivel. Someone else really liked it & wanted it bad, so it's long gone. A close 2nd was a Voere of some sort with a big 60s Monte Carlo cheekpiece in 300 WinMag.
I got nailed by a 50 caliber muzzleloader (inline) which was my cousin's rifle. His arms are shorter and he had the scope too close for my liking. I made a stalk on a small buck in the middle of a field. I had to lay prone to shoot. I thought I could hold my face back far enough to keep from getting hit. At the sound of the shot all I could see was smoke and pain. The scope had wacked me across my nose. I could feel something wet on my face and knew it was blood. I quickly walked over to the deer to make sure it was down and then walked back to my uncle's house to see my injury. I remember walking through his front door and he looked at me with a concerned look and said, "What the hell happened to you?". I didn't have to get stitches, but it did not look good.
I also got lightly tapped on the forehead by the same cousin's 300 Winchester Magnum shooting at another deer. I stopped shooting his guns after that one.
Lol. Good story. I appreciate your honesty.
Did your uncle dump some booze on your wound and give you a cig? Lol
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 .
Checking zero on a Knight .50 cal, on a zero degree day, leaning over hood of my old CJ Had one come back more lively than usual and bumped nose. Must not have been seated fully? Bad form? Only one that got me, out of a bunch of diff stuff over the years.
I have a few. No ink... but a few thin white round lines on my noggin. The worst was from a 375 H&H Rem. 700 from their custom shop with a really thin whippy barrel. Beautiful wood. Not a bad rifle to shoot offhand. No weight up front. I shoot righty but, from benchrest, it lifted & torqued to cut above the left eye. I tried wrapping the sling around the front rest with a bag of shot to calm it down. It broke the front sling swivel. Someone else really liked it & wanted it bad, so it's long gone. A close 2nd was a Voere of some sort with a big 60s Monte Carlo cheekpiece in 300 WinMag.
slumlord is stout and not afraid of his rifles, better have control of your 7mag or savage10ml hanging your ass off the side of a hackberry over 4 strands of barbed wire below
Little 450 marlin guide gun will ring your jowls too
I don’t have trust fund tittie baby money, so I have no experience with african chamberings
Checking zero on a Knight .50 cal, on a zero degree day, leaning over hood of my old CJ Had one come back more lively than usual and bumped nose. Must not have been seated fully? Bad form? Only one that got me, out of a bunch of diff stuff over the years.
.50 knight? I’m not familiar with that gun. Glad you didn’t break your face.
I have a Hawken Silver Elite that bashes my cheekbone something fierce. My buds 54 loaded hot (reg Hawken) didn't hit me. That friggin TC of mine hammers. My Renegades and New Englander, never. Dunno WTF is wrong w that stock but it sucks. Really dont want to drag that damn thing out late season.
Shoot a deer and wait for half an hr for the snot, tears and tweety birds to go away.
slumlord is stout and not afraid of his rifles, better have control of your 7mag or savage10ml hanging your ass off the side of a hackberry over 4 strands of barbed wire below
Checking zero on a Knight .50 cal, on a zero degree day, leaning over hood of my old CJ Had one come back more lively than usual and bumped nose. Must not have been seated fully? Bad form? Only one that got me, out of a bunch of diff stuff over the years.
.50 knight? I’m not familiar with that gun. Glad you didn’t break your face.
Was a Knight Wolverine, their cheapest rig at the time I think. SOB shot great. Took another elk hunting in CO, good little rigs. Reg #11 ignition and real BP w a sabot'd 240gr (deer). I replaced the plastic sights w spares off a 700 (minor fitting) and ran the Maxihunters when I went after elk. Those shot great too.
Was cheatin on deer. Felt bad about it, so sold and went back to side hammer........beautiful TC stainless Hawken. Worst shooting , worst face bashing POS Ive ever had. Got it to behave shooting wise eventually and backed off the load to reduce face smack. I shot my biggest buck w it so am kinda hangin on to it.
slumlord is stout and not afraid of his rifles, better have control of your 7mag or savage10ml hanging your ass off the side of a hackberry over 4 strands of barbed wire below
300Win with a newly mounted 3-12 Shepherd is the only one that actually cut me over the eye circa 2004. I finished the deer season with that pairing then sold the Shepherd shortly thereafter. I've peeled the skin off the bridge of my nose a few times via the thumb-button on Butler Creek flip covers. Most recent was about 3-4 weeks ago. I wasn't thinking and let a pard's NULA 270Win free-recoil on bags rather than the firm grip I'd normally use on fly-weights. BC flipper got me.
None of them have been awful gashes requiring stitches. Have to look pretty hard to find the scars over my eye or on my nose.
Fester: Indeed I endured a "Weatherby Eyebrow" several years ago on a high country Hunt in western Wyoming. It was snowing hard and very cold - I was after Mule Deer. I spied a dandy Buck uphill from me and laid down in the deep powder snow, shouldering my pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in caliber 30/06. I apparently picked up a batch of powder snow between my Rifles buttstock and my shoulder and at discharge the Rifle slid downward and the Leupold scope came back and cut me - deep! I was stunned by the impact and had just one eye working but saw the Buck going down. So I soon got on an even keel and started toward the downed Deer. My right cheek soon became very cold and with my ungloved trigger hand I reached up and removed a "blood icicle" from that cheek. I then became aware that I was bleeding rather heavily and had to hold up on the uphill trudge and stopped the bleeding with my handkerchief. Two years ago I was assisting a 100% disabled military veteran on an Antelope Hunt and he touched off a shot from a rather awkward position and his 270 Winchester scope broke his nose and cut it deeply! Took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding from the bridge of his nose and out his nostril! My close friend here in SW Montana was Hunting Elk with his custom Ruger #1 in caliber 338/378 Weatherby and shot from the prone position in deep snow and again at an uphill angle - the resulting Weatherby eyebrow rendered him instantly unconscious and he estimates he woke up 20 minutes later and in near bitch black darkness - he had to stop his bleeding with a spare glove and then it took him 10 minutes to find his Rifle in the powder snow. He had to abandon his Hunt (follow-up on the shot at the Elk) and head for his vehicle and then to the hospital for stitches and head exam! Lesson - be familiar with your Rifles recoil and only shoot from a steady, strongly supported position. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Checking zero on a Knight .50 cal, on a zero degree day, leaning over hood of my old CJ Had one come back more lively than usual and bumped nose. Must not have been seated fully? Bad form? Only one that got me, out of a bunch of diff stuff over the years.
.50 knight? I’m not familiar with that gun. Glad you didn’t break your face.
Was a Knight Wolverine, their cheapest rig at the time I think. SOB shot great. Took another elk hunting in CO, good little rigs. Reg #11 ignition and real BP w a sabot'd 240gr (deer). I replaced the plastic sights w spares off a 700 (minor fitting) and ran the Maxihunters when I went after elk. Those shot great too.
Was cheatin on deer. Felt bad about it, so sold and went back to side hammer........beautiful TC stainless Hawken. Worst shooting , worst face bashing POS Ive ever had. Got it to behave shooting wise eventually and backed off the load to reduce face smack. I shot my biggest buck w it so am kinda hangin on to it.
Lol.
One of my uncles rifles got me. He sold it because it was a cheap piece Remington sold. Screw that rifle.😂
Do you have pictures of the rifle? I will google it. I’ve never heard of it and now I’m interested.
Fester: Indeed I endured a "Weatherby Eyebrow" several years ago on a high country Hunt in western Wyoming. It was snowing hard and very cold - I was after Mule Deer. I spied a dandy Buck uphill from me and laid down in the deep powder snow, shouldering my pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in caliber 30/06. I apparently picked up a batch of powder snow between my Rifles buttstock and my shoulder and at discharge the Rifle slid downward and the Leupold scope came back and cut me - deep! I was stunned by the impact and had just one eye working but saw the Buck going down. So I soon got on an even keel and started toward the downed Deer. My right cheek soon became very cold and with my ungloved trigger hand I reached up and removed a "blood icicle" from that cheek. I then became aware that I was bleeding rather heavily and had to hold up on the uphill trudge and stopped the bleeding with my handkerchief. Two years ago I was assisting a 100% disabled military veteran on an Antelope Hunt and he touched off a shot from a rather awkward position and his 270 Winchester scope broke his nose and cut it deeply! Took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding from the bridge of his nose and out his nostril! My close friend here in SW Montana was Hunting Elk with his custom Ruger #1 in caliber 338/378 Weatherby and shot from the prone position in deep snow and again at an uphill angle - the resulting Weatherby eyebrow rendered him instantly unconscious and he estimates he woke up 20 minutes later and in near bitch black darkness - he had to stop his bleeding with a spare glove and then it took him 10 minutes to find his Rifle in the powder snow. He had to abandon his Hunt (follow-up on the shot at the Elk) and head for his vehicle and then to the hospital for stitches and head exam! Lesson - be familiar with your Rifles recoil and only shoot from a steady, strongly supported position. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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 .
Yep
I’ve been lucky enough to not bleed. I did however get hit, hard.
Fester: Indeed I endured a "Weatherby Eyebrow" several years ago on a high country Hunt in western Wyoming. It was snowing hard and very cold - I was after Mule Deer. I spied a dandy Buck uphill from me and laid down in the deep powder snow, shouldering my pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in caliber 30/06. I apparently picked up a batch of powder snow between my Rifles buttstock and my shoulder and at discharge the Rifle slid downward and the Leupold scope came back and cut me - deep! I was stunned by the impact and had just one eye working but saw the Buck going down. So I soon got on an even keel and started toward the downed Deer. My right cheek soon became very cold and with my ungloved trigger hand I reached up and removed a "blood icicle" from that cheek. I then became aware that I was bleeding rather heavily and had to hold up on the uphill trudge and stopped the bleeding with my handkerchief. Two years ago I was assisting a 100% disabled military veteran on an Antelope Hunt and he touched off a shot from a rather awkward position and his 270 Winchester scope broke his nose and cut it deeply! Took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding from the bridge of his nose and out his nostril! My close friend here in SW Montana was Hunting Elk with his custom Ruger #1 in caliber 338/378 Weatherby and shot from the prone position in deep snow and again at an uphill angle - the resulting Weatherby eyebrow rendered him instantly unconscious and he estimates he woke up 20 minutes later and in near bitch black darkness - he had to stop his bleeding with a spare glove and then it took him 10 minutes to find his Rifle in the powder snow. He had to abandon his Hunt (follow-up on the shot at the Elk) and head for his vehicle and then to the hospital for stitches and head exam! Lesson - be familiar with your Rifles recoil and only shoot from a steady, strongly supported position. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Basic Knight, plastic sights. Blued w a plastic stock that looked like a Ruger boat paddle (kinda hollowed out). Both of mine were of that vintage. Think later models were more conventional looking.
Pretty much quit shooting BP rigs about 20 yrs ago. Too much of a PITA
Fester: Indeed I endured a "Weatherby Eyebrow" several years ago on a high country Hunt in western Wyoming. It was snowing hard and very cold - I was after Mule Deer. I spied a dandy Buck uphill from me and laid down in the deep powder snow, shouldering my pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in caliber 30/06. I apparently picked up a batch of powder snow between my Rifles buttstock and my shoulder and at discharge the Rifle slid downward and the Leupold scope came back and cut me - deep! I was stunned by the impact and had just one eye working but saw the Buck going down. So I soon got on an even keel and started toward the downed Deer. My right cheek soon became very cold and with my ungloved trigger hand I reached up and removed a "blood icicle" from that cheek. I then became aware that I was bleeding rather heavily and had to hold up on the uphill trudge and stopped the bleeding with my handkerchief. Two years ago I was assisting a 100% disabled military veteran on an Antelope Hunt and he touched off a shot from a rather awkward position and his 270 Winchester scope broke his nose and cut it deeply! Took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding from the bridge of his nose and out his nostril! My close friend here in SW Montana was Hunting Elk with his custom Ruger #1 in caliber 338/378 Weatherby and shot from the prone position in deep snow and again at an uphill angle - the resulting Weatherby eyebrow rendered him instantly unconscious and he estimates he woke up 20 minutes later and in near bitch black darkness - he had to stop his bleeding with a spare glove and then it took him 10 minutes to find his Rifle in the powder snow. He had to abandon his Hunt (follow-up on the shot at the Elk) and head for his vehicle and then to the hospital for stitches and head exam! Lesson - be familiar with your Rifles recoil and only shoot from a steady, strongly supported position. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Fugking moron
LOL
Stop being a d ick. Lol
I know for a fact you got scoped Swallow yer pride, bud. 😉
Japanese Weaver on a Ruger Skeleton stock 30-06. Laid awkwardly across an alder branch. Got laid open. Required a follow up shot. Got it again. I am a slow learner.
I got nailed by a 50 caliber muzzleloader (inline) which was my cousin's rifle. His arms are shorter and he had the scope too close for my liking. I made a stalk on a small buck in the middle of a field. I had to lay prone to shoot. I thought I could hold my face back far enough to keep from getting hit. At the sound of the shot all I could see was smoke and pain. The scope had wacked me across my nose. I could feel something wet on my face and knew it was blood. I quickly walked over to the deer to make sure it was down and then walked back to my uncle's house to see my injury. I remember walking through his front door and he looked at me with a concerned look and said, "What the hell happened to you?". I didn't have to get stitches, but it did not look good.
I also got lightly tapped on the forehead by the same cousin's 300 Winchester Magnum shooting at another deer. I stopped shooting his guns after that one.
Lol. Good story. I appreciate your honesty.
Did your uncle dump some booze on your wound and give you a cig? Lol
He's a farmer and and was in the National Guard for years. He has sympathy for no one. I could tell he felt bad for me, but I wasn't getting any help as long as I was walking and talking. Lol
I got nailed by a 50 caliber muzzleloader (inline) which was my cousin's rifle. His arms are shorter and he had the scope too close for my liking. I made a stalk on a small buck in the middle of a field. I had to lay prone to shoot. I thought I could hold my face back far enough to keep from getting hit. At the sound of the shot all I could see was smoke and pain. The scope had wacked me across my nose. I could feel something wet on my face and knew it was blood. I quickly walked over to the deer to make sure it was down and then walked back to my uncle's house to see my injury. I remember walking through his front door and he looked at me with a concerned look and said, "What the hell happened to you?". I didn't have to get stitches, but it did not look good.
I also got lightly tapped on the forehead by the same cousin's 300 Winchester Magnum shooting at another deer. I stopped shooting his guns after that one.
Lol. Good story. I appreciate your honesty.
Did your uncle dump some booze on your wound and give you a cig? Lol
He's a farmer and and was in the National Guard for years. He has sympathy for no one. I could tell he felt bad for me, but I wasn't getting any help as long as I was walking and talking. Lol
Fester: Indeed I endured a "Weatherby Eyebrow" several years ago on a high country Hunt in western Wyoming. It was snowing hard and very cold - I was after Mule Deer. I spied a dandy Buck uphill from me and laid down in the deep powder snow, shouldering my pre-64 Winchester Model 70 in caliber 30/06. I apparently picked up a batch of powder snow between my Rifles buttstock and my shoulder and at discharge the Rifle slid downward and the Leupold scope came back and cut me - deep! I was stunned by the impact and had just one eye working but saw the Buck going down. So I soon got on an even keel and started toward the downed Deer. My right cheek soon became very cold and with my ungloved trigger hand I reached up and removed a "blood icicle" from that cheek. I then became aware that I was bleeding rather heavily and had to hold up on the uphill trudge and stopped the bleeding with my handkerchief. Two years ago I was assisting a 100% disabled military veteran on an Antelope Hunt and he touched off a shot from a rather awkward position and his 270 Winchester scope broke his nose and cut it deeply! Took us 20 minutes to stop the bleeding from the bridge of his nose and out his nostril! My close friend here in SW Montana was Hunting Elk with his custom Ruger #1 in caliber 338/378 Weatherby and shot from the prone position in deep snow and again at an uphill angle - the resulting Weatherby eyebrow rendered him instantly unconscious and he estimates he woke up 20 minutes later and in near bitch black darkness - he had to stop his bleeding with a spare glove and then it took him 10 minutes to find his Rifle in the powder snow. He had to abandon his Hunt (follow-up on the shot at the Elk) and head for his vehicle and then to the hospital for stitches and head exam! Lesson - be familiar with your Rifles recoil and only shoot from a steady, strongly supported position. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
Japanese Weaver on a Ruger Skeleton stock 30-06. Laid awkwardly across an alder branch. Got laid open. Required a follow up shot. Got it again. I am a slow learner.
.30-06!
I’ve been hit a few times but never cut. Thank god. My .30-30 has caught me and .30-06 but hasn’t cut me.
I’ve seen my buds bleed from simple recoil. Apparently they don’t know how to shoot.🤪 I have dumb friends.
slumlord is stout and not afraid of his rifles, better have control of your 7mag or savage10ml hanging your ass off the side of a hackberry over 4 strands of barbed wire below
I’m listening.
18-1/2” pythons help too
Get some gravy in ya
Praying and training! My vitamins and exercise brother!
The rifle was fine, I just know now that there are better choices in chambering and build and optics and the like. Fairly light rifle, big recoil, and a short eye relief scope are not good choices for the uninitiated. Fortunately I know now, thanks in part to people on this site, so my boys started off on a better foot.
870 slug barrel with scope is not meant to be shot prone.
Actually there is a comedy of errors anecdote with this. A river, 2 big inner tubes, a sheet of plywood, a dead moose from a few hours before, 2 young men with way more enthusiasm than brains....so we return to the scene of the crime to get the rest of the meat, with the 870 loaded for bear...yup, as expected bear ate most of the gutpile on shore and was working on the meat we'd piled on a gravel bar (by the by, brownies aren't intimidated by piss trails and man stink clothes)...hollering, firing pistol in the water to scare her off..of course it didn't scare her...she starts toward the out of control drifting raft, clack-clack, she is pissed. My buddy the great Aleut hunter laid on the deck and fired the scoped slug gun, because I was jumping up and down for some reason, wobbling the raft, but Mrs Bruin dropped on all fours and walked into the willows. Ivan the great says, settle down...she's gone, holy schidt Ivan your leaking bad, can you see out of that eye? He says it's hokay, scope got me. Tough tough kid.
Once, was all twisted up shooting at a deer, before I pulled the trigger I thought about thge stock barely on the side of my shoulder. "Just the 308, it ain't too bad."
Pulled the trigger. It moved my glasses and honestly didn't hurt, but an old Leupold, it sliced my nose.
On the left side. A right, I was shooting from the right shoulder.
Got beaned by a .300 H&H. Crawled the stock and was gently reminded not to do that again. No blood, but a decent bruise. I also had a 1917 Eddystone that had been rebored to .35 Brown-Whalen and shortened and lightened. No scope, but I left my thumb over the wrist of the stock and hit myself in the nose. Hard to shoot with watery eyes. Friend got bit hard by a 450 Marlin. Mounted his 2.5x leupold too far back. Opened his brow and nose pretty good. About 8 stitches worth if I remember right. He offered to sell it to me cheap after I took him home from the ER. I politely declined.
Which one of you fine fellers has been given the ring tat? What caliber/cartridge were you shooting?
.300 mag out of that Remington m7 synthetic stock rifle touched, but did not cut me, with the scope.
Yes, once. A pretty light Win 670 in 30-06 with a 4-12x42 Burris FF II loaded with a Hornady 190 btsp and enough IMR 4831 to break 2800 fps.
I went prone on a downhill slope shooting at a coyote which was at a higher elevation than I. It cut my right eyebrow to the bone. The guys at work got a great laugh when we gathered for lunch in the break room. They all recognized exactly what had occurred.
I had a Barrett 50 cal "I sold it on this forum" and it had a tank style muzzle break, and I said to myself I wonder what the difference will be if I take it off. I mean the rifle weighed 55 pounds I though the weight would absorb the recoil well guess what it didn't well not enough anyways. Ouchy
Never had the problem. Then again, hardest recoiling rifle I own is probably Marlin GG with hot rod .45-70 loads. Maybe because I only shoot my own rifles that I’ve set up right or, sometimes, friends’ rifles that I’m loading for and have also set up.
Which one of you fine fellers has been given the ring tat? What caliber/cartridge were you shooting?
.300 mag out of that Remington m7 synthetic stock rifle touched, but did not cut me, with the scope.
Many times, in the early 80’s.
I had bought the rifle of my dreams, a Win.Model 70 XTR in .375 H&H. After buying the rifle I was broke, and bought the only scope that I could afford…..a 3-9 Bushnell, for around $39.00 at a nearby Walmart.
While trying to build a load for my new rifle with Sierra 300 gr. SBT, I would get hit numerous times while going through a 20 round box. The first couple of times it hurt like hell…..but, I must’ve gotten a bit numb, as later hits didn’t hurt very badly.
Most of the time, I had blood streaks down both sides of my nose on the return trip home! Finally, once getting a 2-7 Leupold, the “scope attacks” ceased! 😉
Retiring that rifle for one with much higher recoil, I was very careful to start out with a scope with lots of eye relief! Learning how to firmly hold a heavy recoiling rifle didn’t hurt any either! 😁 memtb
Yep, just got my first scope tat between my eyes while on a hunt in Spain. Not my rifle and crawled the scope. Perfect half moon between the eyes. I tell people my wife hit me. Most say I deserved it. MTG
Touched a few times on weird vertical angles with a ruger 77 pencil barrel tang safety in 7 mag with partition handloads that were about on the edge of safety. Never marked. I learned to not choke up on it around mid teens when a buddy split his forehead and raccooned his eyes with some heavy a frames in a 30-06 featherweight.
Yep, just got my first scope tat between my eyes while on a hunt in Spain. Not my rifle and crawled the scope. Perfect half moon between the eyes. I tell people my wife hit me. Most say I deserved it. MTG
Lmao. I’m not sure how I got away without being cut or “tatted” buy a scoped or non scoped rifle.
I have had recoil from stocks wake me up a time or 2. That’s no fun when you get butt stock checked. Eye opener and closer😉
Yep, just got my first scope tat between my eyes while on a hunt in Spain. Not my rifle and crawled the scope. Perfect half moon between the eyes. I tell people my wife hit me. Most say I deserved it. MTG
Lmao. I’m not sure how I got away without being cut or “tatted” buy a scoped or non scoped rifle.
I have had recoil from stocks wake me up a time or 2. That’s no fun when you get butt stock checked. Eye opener and closer😉
I’m sorry for “lmao” at your expense. I lmao at all my injuries, and tend to laugh when I see people/friends get hurt. My bad.
Touched a few times on weird vertical angles with a ruger 77 pencil barrel tang safety in 7 mag with partition handloads that were about on the edge of safety. Never marked. I learned to not choke up on it around mid teens when a buddy split his forehead and raccooned his eyes with some heavy a frames in a 30-06 featherweight.
I seem to handle heavy/hot .30-06 loads.
.300 mag got my attention, fired from a light Gun. I like the bigger, hot loaded cartridges bang and recoil, but I’m not into them as much these days. I like reloading them*
I’ve seen it happen and I’ve been whacked but not cut.
Touched a few times on weird vertical angles with a ruger 77 pencil barrel tang safety in 7 mag with partition handloads that were about on the edge of safety. Never marked. I learned to not choke up on it around mid teens when a buddy split his forehead and raccooned his eyes with some heavy a frames in a 30-06 featherweight.
I seem to handle heavy/hot .30-06 loads.
.300 mag got my attention, fired from a light Gun. I like the bigger, hot loaded cartridges bang and recoil, but I’m not into them as much these days. I like reloading them*
I’ve seen it happen and I’ve been whacked but not cut.
Yep - it happens. I've always been a fan of the hot stuff with heavy loads. When I hit my mid 50's, I became a fan of hot stuff in solid copper light for caliber loads. 22-250 and 25-06 ai are my new friends.
I have been cut twice by my 35 Whelen. Both times had a deer get close and had to shoot from an odd position so I wouldn't spook them moving too much. I killed them both.
I'll admit to it in hopes that someone will learn something from it. This was from years ago. I'd put a set of flip up covers on my scope. The rear one stuck back nearly an inch behind the eye piece and I didn't take the extra length into account. I no longer have the rear cover, just the front one.
I'll admit to it in hopes that someone will learn something from it. This was from years ago. I'd put a set of flip up covers on my scope. The rear one stuck back nearly an inch behind the eye piece and I didn't take the extra length into account. I no longer have the rear cover, just the front one.
Dam that is funny Rock Chuck, love the smile on your face!
I never cut my eye. I remember getting popped enough to get my attention. It was one of my first times shooting a centerfire rifle. Being a slow learner I did it again a few shots later. I don’t remember getting hit since.
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