Dental Issues with Large Caliber Recoil

[Trent]

The stock on my barrett M95 doesn't have any drop (comb?) - it's just straight, all the way from front to back.

Even with a high scope mount I still have to push my cheek pretty hard against it.

Recoil first "extended" trip to the range tore my right side sinus canal under my cheekbone.

Painful, lots of antibiotics.

Petroleum jelly was the solution. Allows my cheek to "slide" over the rifle so it doesn't tear anything up.

With other rifles? Aside from a sore shoulder (!) I've never had any problems.

 

[LANDMAN4389]

Thanks for the replies fellas. Nothing wrong with my teeth (other than a mouth full of fillings) and I haven't ever had any problems shooting. I was just curious if the statement I had heard had any merit to it, which from what I have learned here it does not.

 

[W.E.G.]

A true gun nut spends all his money on guns, and lets his teeth fall where they may.

 

[madcratebuilder]

The common statement I hear is "The recoil was so bad it jarred/loosened my fillings"

Any truth to this or just a bunch of baloney?

It's a rhetorical statement.

You may get a like black and blue around the shoulder. Keep your eye away from the scope, scope eye can be painful.

 

[Trent]

Oh man, I agree. Scope eye can be VERY painful. Ugh.

(First time I fired my Yugo M76 I caught the damn Zastava (?) scope - and I've been shooting scoped rifles 15 years, including 50 cals... Kind of embarrassing.)

 

[Patocazador]

Oh man, I agree. Scope eye can be VERY painful. Ugh.

(First time I fired my Yugo M76 I caught the damn Zastava (?) scope - and I've been shooting scoped rifles 15 years, including 50 cals... Kind of embarrassing.)

Thank God, most of the newer scopes have longer eye-relief than the ones 40 years ago had. This problem has been greatly reduced in recent years.

 

[mortablunt]

There's the expression "rattle your teeth", but that's just an idiom. Iff you'e got back tooth decay and gum erosion, the conceivably, a very stout recoil repeated far too often could jar something loose. However, nothing short of elephant guns should cause trouble. Of course, elephant guns were notorious for eventually causing the retina to literally be shaken off of the eyeball!

 

[Float Pilot]

While I was working up some load data for the 416 Taylor, I was also shooting a light-weight 338 Wm for another guy for whom I had built the rifle.

After about 80 rounds from each one my eye went out of focus.

A day or two later it was better, but then I shot a light 300 win mag and it went bad again...

A trip to the eye doc revealed that I had detached a retina