Ow, Ow, Ow. (or, the boomstick broke my neck)

[rcmodel]

Hey!
If Tiger Woods can blow a knee playing golf, anything is possible!

rcmodel

 

[Noxx]

Golf is the willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range

It doesn't have to be. I'd love to see a sort of biathlon golf wherein after each stroke you have the opportunity to take a shot at your opponents ball. Shame most golf courses are surrounded by tract housing these days.

 

[LWGN]

Hmmm... "Skeet Golfing"...

I see potential here.

 

[et45]

I fired about 50 rds of #6 game loads through my 18 inch bbl Rem. 870 and the next day my shoulder was bruised and my upper spine felt like it needed a good cracking for a couple days afterwards.

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

Wrst experience ZI'vre had in the recoil deepartment is when I was sughting in a couple of red dot scope on a couple of buddy's turkey guns. Those 3.5" roman candles hurt off the bench.

 

[Professor Gun]

Sounds like a meniscoid inclusion which basically is a theory that some of the cartilage "meniscus like structures" around the joints in the neck get pinched between bony surfaces of the joints. Real typical when people sleep really deep and are in one position for a long time when sleeping and not likely due to shooting firearms. They tend to be really painful and can lock up your neck for a while. Gentle range of motion and good posture can take care of it over a few days (with some anti-inflammatory over the counter meds). A physical therapist who knows muscle energy techniques can help a lot if you can get it treated in a day or two after injury, longer than that things get iffy. Cervical traction also helps (lay on your back, edge of the bed, let your head hang slightly over the edge). Chiro adjustment sometimes helps but the high velocity thrusts at cervical spine can create injury and I would not recommend that.

 

[justin 561]

The Cold War isn't over, and we have't won. Those bloody surplus M44s are testimony to this. I swear (literally) everytime I fire my buddy's carbine, and the Bolshevich boom stick nails me, I know it's all part of a giant Commie Plot.

Hahaha, I know exactly what you mean.

 

[rantingredneck]

+1 on seeing a chiropractor. My neck locked up on me earlier this week (a delayed result of my fall and back injury from last year) and I've gone 3 times this past week. Definitely an improvement.

Also a limbsaver slip on recoil pad (size small) works wonders on a Mosin stock. Takes the pain out of the extended shooting sessions. Also helps me some with the typically short LOP on Russki rifles.

 

[357WheelGun]

Also a limbsaver slip on recoil pad (size small) works wonders on a Mosin stock. Takes the pain out of the extended shooting sessions. Also helps me some with the typically short LOP on Russki rifles.

I second this. While my M91/30 is tolerable without the pad (mild bruising the next day after firing about 100 rounds while wearing a light jacket), with the pad you barely even notice it.

Call me a wuss if you like, but it's great to be able to fire as much as I want.