MidRoad
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Last 24 hours have been terrible. My younger brother had a fishing accident yesterday. Was salmon fishing in pulaski NY had a fish on,fish jumped, line broke and the sinkers flung back and caught him right in the eye, had 3-4 pencil eraser size weights on. It was a 1/4 mile hike than a 40 min drive to Syracuse to get him treated. I was working about 35 min south of albany and got the call yesterday and rushed the 3 hour drive to get to syracuse. initially they thought he had to get surgery right away,but after the head eye doc got in he said it doesn't look puntcured and wanted to refer us to a specialist in the morning. This morning they took a look at it and did an ultra sound. The retina looks to be attached all the way,but Iris is split, but there is much blood trapped in the center of his eye for the camera to see the actual damage. Will be making trips to the doc everyday for the next week or so the keep track of it. But no idea how much vision will be lost yet. Doc called it deep and significant blunt trauma.no puncture apparent. Future surgery will be needed for Iris repair, amongst other things. The total damage is not yet certain. Really crappy thing to happen to a good guy.
Anyways it's his right eye, and he's a righty. He loves hunting and shooting. This season is most likely spent for him. I know hunting and shooting should be the last thing in mind with this situation. But it is important to him, and is a major moral dump and depressing thing for him to think about, as they were a big hobby for him.
So I was wondering has anyone here been through something like this? How was recovery? I know every injury is unique and time will tell what happens.
If all goes well and he heals up ok and can hunt i would think his 45-70 ,300 win mag and 300 RCM are out of the question for a long while due to concussion and recoil. He may have to learn to shoot left as well. I was thinking his best bet if he can shoot a rifle would be his Henry with .44 specials. I was also thinking if he does loose vision and has to avoid heavy recoil, picking up a scope and mount for his super Blackhawk , along with some 44 special Skeeter level loads would be rather mild yet effective out of a heafty scoped gun with a 7.5" barrel. We hunt in the thick stuff so shots are sub 50 yards majority of the time. Often bow distances.
Anyways recovery and finances from not working /medical bills will be top priority, but I'm just trying to think of ways to boost his moral. Thoughts?
Edit to add: we don't currently reload, so factory ammo is what we use.
Anyways it's his right eye, and he's a righty. He loves hunting and shooting. This season is most likely spent for him. I know hunting and shooting should be the last thing in mind with this situation. But it is important to him, and is a major moral dump and depressing thing for him to think about, as they were a big hobby for him.
So I was wondering has anyone here been through something like this? How was recovery? I know every injury is unique and time will tell what happens.
If all goes well and he heals up ok and can hunt i would think his 45-70 ,300 win mag and 300 RCM are out of the question for a long while due to concussion and recoil. He may have to learn to shoot left as well. I was thinking his best bet if he can shoot a rifle would be his Henry with .44 specials. I was also thinking if he does loose vision and has to avoid heavy recoil, picking up a scope and mount for his super Blackhawk , along with some 44 special Skeeter level loads would be rather mild yet effective out of a heafty scoped gun with a 7.5" barrel. We hunt in the thick stuff so shots are sub 50 yards majority of the time. Often bow distances.
Anyways recovery and finances from not working /medical bills will be top priority, but I'm just trying to think of ways to boost his moral. Thoughts?
Edit to add: we don't currently reload, so factory ammo is what we use.
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