Do you have "scope eye"?

[Moose458]

I've had a scope bite. Went out to sight in my H&K-91 with a freind that had heckled me no end about a black plastic rifle, and I should have gotten something with wood on it. Needless to say, first shot...smack. I ask Tim to go check the target hoping that by the time he returned I could have the flow of blood stopped. Didn't work. I had to take a lot of ribbibng. After that I extended the stock length by an inch.

 

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[Maverick223]

^I don't see anything wrong with that positioning.

 

[CoRoMo]

He offered to let the man shoot his rifle. ... got his eye too close to the scope ...it busted him pretty good. Blood was dripping everywhere. ...take him to the urgent care for stitches... ...he felt bad and maybe should have warned him a little better...

Not a bad example of how someone might decide that you are liable for their injuries, after having invited them to try out your gun. Hope they don't come find the gun owner and hand him a doctor bill.

 

[henschman]

Shoulder Pocket

Turkey Neck

Cheek Weld

Learn these 3 things and "scope eye" will not be a problem for you.

 

[cougar1717]

I don't, but a friend of mine was shooting his brother's muzzleloader. The first shot caught him pretty well and he's got a nice crescent scar next to his eyebrow to show for it.

 

[Naterater]

I'm 15 years old and been shooting rifles all of my life. I've only ever gotten close with a 20 gauge slug and crappy stance... but I was lucky. My scope had a nice soft rubber eyepiece that i just nicked. Not even a bruise on my eye.

And I still prefer heavy .308 loads to my 20ga. slugs.

 

[newfalguy101]

No scar, or at least no visible scar, but, alas I have taken the hit a couple of times.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

No scar, but I've had my hat knocked off my head because of a cheap POS BSA scope with what seems like about 1/2" eye relief.

 

[Purgatory]

^I don't see anything wrong with that positioning.

Yeah, that's a good way to get 'the Cyclops.' -I mean 'the ol' One Eye.' -I mean 'Scope Eye.'

 

[HKGuns]

Once, no scar, was enough to teach me to pay more attention to my shooting position.

 

[Tallinar]

Never experienced getting hit by a scope. I don't use scopes though, and the only scoped rifle I've ever fired was a .22 LR. <shrug>

 

[Sin City Shootist]

I'm sporting a healing bruise right now. I just bought a new R700 and I decided to get a 20moa rail. I knew where the scope should of been. I went to the range and got behind the rifle in prone and quickly realized two things. One I forgot my wrench to move the scope, two I forgot to put my stock extenders on and I'll even add a 3rd. I couldn't get a good comfortable cheek weld because of the rail. So with the LOP too short for me, in an uncomfortable position, trying to give myself some eye relief I squeezed the trigger. I forgot that this gun didn't have a muzzle brake on it and that sucker didn't tag me hard but my nose got tagged.

My stock pack which I will be putting padding under it to fix the cheek weld will be here today, I installed the damn stock extensions and the wrench is back in the ammo box.

 

[VT Deer Hunter]

No. I practice what they call "eye relief" when I mount my scopes.

I do too, and we call it scope bite.

 

[GBExpat]

Do you have "scope eye"?

No ... but I have rarely used firearms with scopes, much preferring irons.

 

[Legionnaire]

I have smacked my nose with my thumb a couple of times though.

Ditto. No scope eye yet.

 

[hipoint]

here's the absolute stupidest one yet....


I once put 300 grains of powder in a .50 cal muzzle loader behind a 250 gr. sabot.... All I can say is God watches over stupid people... I found myself about 10 ft back from where I started, blood pouring out of my nose, and the paint on the hood of my jeep blackened... I just wonder how far that slug went into the mountain... btw, that was mine and my gal's first date... bless her for sticking around after that.

for the record, NEVER do that...

 

[popper]

Got it once with a borrowed AK. My fault. Friend got one when he crept up on a 308ME. Misunderstood my instructions when I told him to aim an inch low at 25 yds. I guess he thought I meant get closer to the scope. Took 2 stitches. He wasn't angry, but his wife was.

 

[Tim the student]

Yes, my brother-in-law's slug gun.

Cheap scope with little eye relief + slugs = no fun + blood

 

[LJ-MosinFreak-Buck]

The nose-meets-thumb scenario is how I broke my nose. It was with my Mauser. It wasn't too bad though, I bled a lot but I managed to break it back into place a few minutes later. It's a little off center, but isn't noticeable right off the bat.

 

[MyGreenGuns]

Nope, not yet. Although, I've only shot 2 scoped rifles.
1. 10/22 - No noticeable recoil.
2. Mini 14 - Plenty of eye relief.

 

[Owen Sparks]

A friend sandbaged his .308 DPMS on a bench and inadvertantly depressed the lever on the colapsable stock. It nailed him.

 

[LJ-MosinFreak-Buck]

A friend sandbaged his .308 DPMS on a bench and inadvertantly depressed the lever on the colapsable stock. It nailed him.

I know a guy who did that too, only it was a 6.8 upper. I thought it kind of comical.

 

[BADUNAME37]

No, never happened, even shooting as much as 50 BMG and 460 WM. I learned to hold on tightly from the beginning.

I did post in http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=576386 the following:

I am always ready and willing to learn something new. The first time I ever shot a scoped rifle, I was notified of the clearance between the back of the scope and my forehead. I was glad someone spent a minute telling me that I should hold on tightly to avoid getting the notorious 'half-moon' cutout in my skin over my eyebrow! I had a 45-70 with a Redfield 4X TV Screen-shaped scope!

I tried to tell a friend whose .308 rifle we were about to sight in. The scope must have been 40 years old or so (as was the gun, but the gun was a lot nicer than the POS scope).

Anyway, I warned him to hold on tightly to the gun as the recoil is going to send the scope, which had terrible eye relief, back mighty quickly!

Bang, blood all over his face and bleeding profusely! Trip to the ER, NOW!

Next day and five stitches or so later, let's sight this baby in, this time, be CAREFUL! I even fired a shot or two to show him it CAN BE DONE.

Bang! Bandage half off, blood running all over the place, he throws the gun on the bench and is mad as he!! that he did the EXACT same thing two times in a ROW! Quickly, pack everything up, get in the truck and dash to the ER! More stitches!

About two weeks later, we finally got to go again as I recall, and this time, his fresh-wounds which were scabbed over pretty well remained untouched! He pulled a good group with the factory ammo he happened to buy and was finally happy! I told him to stock up on THAT EXACT ammo and nothing else, as the gun really likes that ammo and another ammo you might need to go through the sighting-in process all over again!

 

[SlimPickens67]

+1
Setting someone up to hurt themselves and/or bystanders is pretty poor.