2muchgun
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Okay, fess up. Who here has "scope eye" or a recoil induced scar. How did you get it?
I'll go first:
I have about a 3/16" scar right above my nose, between my eyebrows from a 444 Marlin. It doesn't really show up much anymore, but it's there if you look hard enough.
Got it sliding around the snow on my butt in order to get a shot at a running buck about 50 yds away.
I'm right handed and was set up to shoot at "11 o'clock". Well the buck came flyin' in behind me over my right("off")shoulder @ about "4 o'clock". He must have seen me move or heard my coat brush across the branches of the tree I was sitting in front of. He came to a dead stop, and so did I. I decided it was now or never, and began to spin around. He decided it was time to get out of Dodge. I hit him right in the spine with a 270gr Gold Dot as he was on an upward bound. He hit the ground like a pancake, DRT.
As I sat there, I felt a trickle run down my nose. "That had better be sweat", I thought. Nope, it was blood. I never even knew the Weaver 2.5x20 had got me. It ended up taking 2 handwarmers to soak up the blood and get it to stop. I thought "Wow, all the rounds I've shot in my life, and my first scope bite."
To my dismay, I hit the buck right in the middle of the backstraps.
Golfball sized hole going in, baseball sized hole coming out! A section of spine was missing. You could fold the deer in half. What was left of the backstraps could have fit on a couple of hot dog buns.
In retrospect, this may have been the best shot on a deer I've made, him runnin' one way, me swingin' the other. I was off balance, and my forehead confirmed that fact.
Later that night, I went to a party, and there was a 19-20 yr old kid there with the identical looking scar.
Apparently Daddy's 7mm mag was the culprit.
I read an article years ago where Craig Boddington said if you don't have a scope scar, you simply haven't shot/hunted that much. Maybe he was right........
I'll go first:
I have about a 3/16" scar right above my nose, between my eyebrows from a 444 Marlin. It doesn't really show up much anymore, but it's there if you look hard enough.
Got it sliding around the snow on my butt in order to get a shot at a running buck about 50 yds away.
I'm right handed and was set up to shoot at "11 o'clock". Well the buck came flyin' in behind me over my right("off")shoulder @ about "4 o'clock". He must have seen me move or heard my coat brush across the branches of the tree I was sitting in front of. He came to a dead stop, and so did I. I decided it was now or never, and began to spin around. He decided it was time to get out of Dodge. I hit him right in the spine with a 270gr Gold Dot as he was on an upward bound. He hit the ground like a pancake, DRT.
As I sat there, I felt a trickle run down my nose. "That had better be sweat", I thought. Nope, it was blood. I never even knew the Weaver 2.5x20 had got me. It ended up taking 2 handwarmers to soak up the blood and get it to stop. I thought "Wow, all the rounds I've shot in my life, and my first scope bite."
To my dismay, I hit the buck right in the middle of the backstraps.
In retrospect, this may have been the best shot on a deer I've made, him runnin' one way, me swingin' the other. I was off balance, and my forehead confirmed that fact.
Later that night, I went to a party, and there was a 19-20 yr old kid there with the identical looking scar.
I read an article years ago where Craig Boddington said if you don't have a scope scar, you simply haven't shot/hunted that much. Maybe he was right........
