Scope bite...

Obviously recoil plays a role in this, but it can happen with pretty much any centre fire that kicks, if you don't shoulder it right.
 
Jay said:
Did you buys ki$$ & make up? Good on ya!;)

Cheers
Jay
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no, he's just trying to be my buddy. next he'll be flirting with me :rolleyes:

this is the second time it has happened with this gun. the stock is collapsed year round as it makes it much more comfortable and quicker to get the gun up. the only time i need it extended is for the shotgun hunt. i got the girlfriend to measure how far my head was from the scope...about 3".

i'm buying a new slug gun for next year. i have a horrible memory and chances are i'd likely forget about the stock again next year:rolleyes:

gonna finish off the week with buckshot and no scope:stirthepot2:
 
drache said:
but seriously man, why admit you've had it happen twice with the same firearm? That's just too easy to comment on... :rolleyes:

I should know I make that stupid mistake all the time....
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i posted a pic last year when it happened then. ;)

i'm not afraid of admitting my mistakes in person and im sure as heck not afraid on the interweb...
 
hmm first time I shot a .22 when I was around 12 or so I put the scope right on my eye didnt feel to nice.. my dad still holds the record for a brokin nose holding a scope 30.06 to his face when he was young haha
 
I use the term "Magnum Eyebrow" for those scope kisses ;) A buddy once got a nice deep gash from crawling up on the stock when going prone to take a crack at a coyote while moose hunting with his .30-06 & 180gr handloads (missed...lol) Closest I came was trying out a lightweight .300RUM from the bench. That sucker came back so hard & fast I felt it slightly touch my eyebrow. Took a firmer grip after that.
 
Getting bit by a scope is pretty much a matter of "when", instead of "if".

First moose I shot at, I was kneeling on a downward slope in a snowstorm and I fired (338 win mag) and slipped backwards onto my ass and my scope caught me right between the eyes. But, between the moose and me, one of us lived.

I've also got a stock Rem XCR (fairly light) in 375 RUM that tends to "ting" my shooting glasses every few shots if I'm not super careful off the bench.
 
My first time hunting last year my gf's dad gave me his 7mm to try out on some targets and on the first shot I got scoped, thankfully I was wearing my hat and I think the brim of it must have got caught on the scope somewhere as I only suffered a small red mark.

A couple weeks back I was at White Wolf when an older fella was sighting in what I think was a 45-70 scoped himself good and balled up a tissue and put a black band around his forehead to hold it in place, looked like it must have hurt.
 
I've done it... My cousin bet me I couldn't smack a rock with my muzzle loader at ~250. I was sitting on a sidehill and tried to rest my elbows on my knees. I could tell by the way the gun felt the scope was close but was convinced I could hold back the recoil from 150 grains of pyrodex and a 250 grain sabot. I was wrong...

Picture of an idiot in action:
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Ormachek said:
Everyone gets scoped........once.
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Not this cowboy, Seen my dumb@ss father do it with my old Savage .30-06 110E Supermax mulekicker sumbeetch gun, learnt from watching him cry like a baby afterward not to stick your peeeper anywhere's near the objective like he did. What a "tard !
 
Friend of mine did it, my fault though it was his first time shooting and I failed to notice the stock slipped slightly under his arm. luckily it was only a .303 but talk about blood!
 
My 7mm Rem Mag has done it too me three times on contorted whitetail shots. Twice drew blood.

I didn't care, my blood mixed with the buck's each and every time.
 
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