who's got the "scope scar"

knock on wood

I remember the day I saw my dad get hit in the head with a redfield "tv" scope. It was mounted on a Remington 742 in 30-06 with those high See-thru rings. It drew a good bit of blood and he did not act to suprised. He may have done it before.

I have never used those and never been hit hard enough to bleed. I sometimes think of that day while shooting and back off a little.
 
I laughed my ... off when I read the title of this thread. I don't have the scar, but I know someone who does :D. Some folks prefer to learn the hard way:p

Jason
 
It's less prevalent anymore, since now scopes' ocular bells have rubber rings around the edge typically; in the old days, just thin sheet metal. :eek: People aren't as tough as they used to be, so manufacturers had to dumb them down for us. :)
 
People aren't as tough as they used to be, so manufacturers had to dumb them down for us.
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Such is the way with everything now, even the English language I'm afraid... You gotta be PC now, you know.

Jason
 
Jason G and Doyle will be next. If you don't think it can/will happen to you, it will.

BTW - the scope that got me was a Nikon 2-7x32 compact, so it wasn't the fault of a cheap scope and it was mounted plenty far forward. I've shot it since with no adjustments and no ill effects. It has the rubber ring around the eye-piece and got me anyway. It had everything to do with shooting a maximum load while arranging my hulk into a very awkward space and shooting position.
 
I had the most bizarre scope mishap, but no scar.

It was in the early days when I upgraded my crossbow from recurve to compound. The upgrade included a new scope, which I obviously didn't screw down tightly enough. This was a 4x32 that sits on the crossbow's 14mm dovetail rail. Now I didn't realise at the time that the recoil on a crossbow is significant in terms of dislodging a scope on a smooth rail like that. I remember the shot clearly: the scope came backwards off the rail, brushed my nose and hit the ground. A tiny little chip of metal came off the objective rim and I was really sour.
I didn't spare the tightening efforts after that. The crossbow is quite vicious on scopes, but mainly the reticles. I have gone through four scopes already and I'm on my fifth one now. All of them were either original crossbow scopes or spring-gun rated scopes. It doesn't matter, my crossbow eats 'em all.
 
Not quite scope scar, but while in my favorite stand I had a wasp crawl down my scope once while looking at a deer and it bit me on the face. I guess that counts, eh?
 
Not quite scope scar, but while in my favorite stand I had a wasp crawl down my scope once while looking at a deer and it bit me on the face. I guess that counts, eh?
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Ouch! Now that sounds more like my luck.

Jason
 
I watched a friend do it twice in one day. The first time bled just a little for a minute or so, but it puffed up his eyebrow pretty good. The second one gushed like Old Faithful, and that was the end of shooting for the day. It bled all the way back to the car, and we had to hold ice on it for about 1/2 hour to get it to stop. He took that Bushnell scope off the next day and put a Leupold on because of the longer eye relief.
 
I watched a friend do it twice in one day.
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LOL, OMG! I bet he felt like a banged up prize fighter. It might happen to me one day, but I reckon I'll learn the first time. Man...

Jason
 
Amazingly, I've never drawn blood from it, but I think I've been bounced by EVERY scoped rifle I've ever shot. Nope, not every one, lucked out the other night with an '06, but only because I HAVE been bitten before.

My .260 Mountain Rifle would occasionally bite me. My .44 Magnum Ruger lever action would bite too. Also got bit by a Ruger 77 in .300 WSM. The common denominator? All are stocked short, although at some kind of "standard" LOP. Don't have any of them any more either.

Now, I have also been whacked by the hammer on my TC Encore. Shooting a 6-lb .45-70 or .50x209 muzzleloader from the bench seems to be bad mojo for me. If either of these barrels get scoped, you can bet it will be long-eye-relief, low-power jobs.
 
The closest I've been is my father's .45-70 Browning High Wall. He's got a tang peep sight on it, and shoots max loads (350 grains moving at 2200 fps). The tang sight comes up and whacks me on the bridge of my nose.
 
I didn't scar from it, but my Savage 110 shooting 7mm Rem Mag jumped up and hit me hard. My buddy saw it happen, looked at me and said "You aren't bleeding, bad."
 
Got a blackeye when I was about 14 from a Marlin 336 in 30-30. That was the worst I ever did. My buddy got 3 stitches from his 50 cal muzzleloader on his very first shot with it. It sent him head-over-heels backwards right off the bucket he was sitting on. Funniest darn thing I ever saw, needless to say he has a done lot better with it in the more recent past.
 
If you had been wearing safety specs like your supposed to, you wouldn't get a scar. :rolleyes:
I remember the second time I ever went shooting I tried my buddies 30-06. I had my eye (safety specs on) close to the scope. Pulled the trigger and OUCH!!!:o
 
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