Scope Bite FIRST and Second VID IS UP

Sealhunter, I had a buddy do the same out at moose camp a few years back thinking since he shot a 7mmrm THE 30-30 WAS a Woosie rifle...had it in camp as our bear rifle. We were shooting targets one afternoon after tagging a moose in the moring. The rifle(iron sights only) smacked him very hard in the shoulder and part of the hammer caught him in the nose. Man DID WE LAUGH AT HIM!! Told him no wonder it takes a couple shots for him to harvest an animal.

Wookie, Good thing the wedding wasnt soon after....or there probably of been a funeral instead.LOL

Or maybe your funeral soon for posting the picture....lol

Good woman thats for sure if she is still out hunting after taking a kick like that.
 
A buddy of mine who is a LEO here in toronto, was at a BBQ i had last year. I was showing him my new Excalibur Equinox. He had never shot much more than hand guns so i offered him a fer bolts at the cube.

I suppose it was my mistake in assuming he had used a scoped weapon before or the fact that i told him it had minimum recoil and the fact that it's a crossbow, or that i was looking at the target while he was preparing to fire instead of him with his eye on the scope like it was a telescope or something. Oh the blood!

He vowed to give me the tazer if he ever gets me in a position for a traffic stop.:(

I scoped my face years ago. I forget the gun that did it but man did i feel dumb!
(Actually i think it was a friends slug gun he lent me)
 
I got clobbered by a friends .375 wildcat which put 300s out at 2950. He's a lot shorter than I, and I knew I'd have to hang on. First two shots were abrupt but not fatal. The third I relaxed the death grip a little. I'm certain that the tube touched bone, and I know that there was a chunk of me left on the occular housing. There was no fourth shot.
 
Back when I was 9-10, my grandpa used to take me with him sometimes when he was hunting some kinf of waterfowl (don't remember).
Anyway, the treat was, at the end of the day, to let me fire a couple of shots from his 12ga o/u....

I still rememeber the face of grandma when we came back! I, however, was proud as hell of my battle scars!


Btw, what happens if you are scope kissed while wearing corrective lenses? It can't be good...
 
Couple years ago I had the scope on a friends Savage .270win give me a light bump above my eye. Never thought that would happen, but goes to show what can happen when you don't respect eye relief. Really I'm just happy I didn't cut myself or end up with a black eye.
 
Wookie316 said:
Scoped myself with a 25/06 once. It was winter & I was shooting with gloves on. Touched one off before I was fully ready. It didn't cut me, but it stung like a Bit$h.

My wife drew a Mule deer tag before we were married. We stalked a 180 class buck. I let her use my shoulder as a rest to make a nice steady shot. She didn't hold on to the gun tight enough & scoped herself bad. Didn't bleed, but broke her nose.

She end up wounding it & it ran about 700 yards & bedded down right in the open because she hit it good. Plus there was about 2 feet of snow that year. After she collected herself we stalked up to the deer on the opposite side of the hill as close as we could get. We snuck up to the ridge, it was about a 400 yard shot (386 yards later when I GPS'd it). I told her to put the cross hair just on the top of his back, BOOM, it didn't get out of its bed. What a shot. I was so excited, even more excited thatn her. This was her first deer too. Beginers luck. I'll post a picture when I can find it, that was back in the film days. 186 gross. Very nice.

She swelled big time, we did not realize it was broken until later in the week when the swelling went down. The doc reset it and it healed crooked. A couple years later she had it reset, it was 10 times as bad. She would never have went through the pain again If she knew it was going to be that bad. Here is how it looked the day after the doc reset it.

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Man did I get some funny looks from my neighbors. :eek:
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Wookie! You arn't supposed to leave visable marks!
Seriously though, is she alright? Does she still hunt and shoot? God bless her.
 
I thought I would be cool and put a red dot in my Winchester 1300 for deer. First shot bit my eyebrow. Rang my bell pretty hard.
 
That must have hurt a lot!!!I din't get scoped but did punch myself in the nose with a Mosin Nagant! First thing was to check for blood . I had to adjust my hold to get my cheek lock farther back to get clearance. I was the first high power rifle I'd fired, only lr up to that point.
 
Too funny!:D

I watched my uncle bloody his nose with a 30/30 (a trapper)...It just climbed out of his (too) relaxed hand and popped him in the beak! If I hadn't seen it myself I wouldn't thought it possible.

I once layed myself out with a 340Wby, but the 340Wby has nothing on the mighty 30/30! :p :p :D
 
Scope burn

Heavy winter cloths, shooting from an awkward position, an old King 4X scope with little eye relief, my dads .303 and one "bet you can't hit that lump" was the right combo for me at the age of 13 or 14. Checked the mirror, it's changed little over the years, a reminder of a great day out deer hunting with dad and my brothers.
 
I have yet to do it myself with the emphasis on "yet" I am sure it will happen one day...

I did watch a buddy do it with a Savage Weather Warrior in 300 WSM. Nailed him right on the bridge of the nose. Man did he bleed!!! I had to sell him that gun because he got so much blood all over it LOL...
 
I've seen a number of folks receive the "Weatherby" eye!! It isn't always a heavy kicker that gets the job done either. 30-30 is enough if all the circumstances are right. My own experience was with my first 308 Norma Mag. I shot it a lot sitting & standing, but the first time I touched one off prone, I learned why you have to be careful you do not crawl up on the stock at all. The scar is invisible now, but that was in 1967. LOL. I once saw a shooter hit twice in succession on the bridge of his nose by the scope on a 300 Win Mag. I never thought the outer part of the nose could bleed so much. Regards, Eagleye.
 
My first high power rifle was a Winchester 70 in 270 Win with a cheap 4x scope (no rubber ring). I creeped up the stock to here Jay say "You are too far forawrd man.." then stars. I leaned the gun against the truck and zoned out for a few seconds, Huntress was worried I scratched the truck :). I opened my eyes to have blood in one; that was 13 years ago and you can still see the scar in the right light.

I had a muzzleloader with a short eye relief scope and cruddy stock too; luckily the rubber ring would hit my shooting glasses when it angled up so all I eneded up with was a headache. Thanks to Ian Robertson who made me a stock that fir better, and a 5" eye relief scope, the gun comes straight back instead of up now and all is well.
 
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