who's got the "scope scar"

Got my first scope-eye shooting a .338 Remington - a real butt-kicking caliber. Only I wear prescription glasses - the frame of which was embedded in my fore-head - glasses were never the same after that - optometrist had a good laugh. stupid and expensive!:D
 
I prefer to call it an 'idiot cut' and yes I did get one, not to bad once.

I was in the woods plinking in the middle of summer, it was 97 degrees and I was sweating like a pig (being British I have frightfully thick blood) and my Winchester Model 70 .30-06 fricking slipped through my hands and the scope hit me in the fore head. It was very very stupid. Funny, but stupid.

I didn't leave a permenant mark, it faded after a couple of days.

I do have a big scar above my left eye from being hit my a flying rounders bat (think baseball bat but shorter and about the same weight) but that's another story where someone else was an idiot.
 
This past weekend by brother was hunting alone in a treestand. He saw a buck that was worth taking and sighting in on it. The treestand he was in was a permanent buddy stand with a shooting rail so he decided to take his time and get real comfortable. With all the excitment going on in his head, he did not put the rifle right against his shoulder and squeezed of a round. He said the scope hit him so hard in the nose he blacked out for a second. If I didn't know any better, I would have thought he was the one who got shot. There was blood everywhere, and now he has a crooked nose!:D I think he broke it, but he won't go to the hospital:rolleyes:.

Oh well, deer was down and we finished our job...
 
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