Went to the range and got it zeroed at 100 meters. Bloody scoped myself as well

...chicks dig scars ??

Roger

The badge of a gun nut. Welcome to the big boys club.

Did that to myself a while back with an AR in .458 SOCOM. The round really doesn't have that much recoil, but I got careless leaning into the scope. Felt pretty damned silly.

I feel for you.

Probably 45 years ago. My future father in law Tom, my girlfriend/future wife and I went to a huge construction borrow pit to sight in my deer rifle. I got it sighted in for 200 yards and asked Tom if he wanted to try it out. He fired a shot just missing a can of soup we had set out.

He says, "would you look at that!" I said, "not bad for your first shot!" He says, "no, look at me!" Blood was running down his face. My GF was screaming. I tore off my tee shirt and stopped the blood from flowing.

He looked at his daughter and said, "your turn."
She kept her eye away from the scope and missed the target.
When the bleeding stopped, he had a cookie cutter from the top of his eye brow to his cheek. My wife never shot that gun again.

As the Black Knight might say, I've had worse. My old scopes will cut but never seem to hurt, for some reason.

My son has a Remington pump in 35 Whelen and I used to give him subloads to practise with. One day they ran out and he got hit with the fat rubber eyepiece of its Zeiss scope when he let off a full-house 250-grainer. For a moment he looked like some cartoon character with stars and birdies circling his head.

Really? My old leopoldo vx before they had numbers opened me up something showing a few times wth its brazer sharp knife edge tube.

I remember having to take a laying down steep uphill shot at a tahr as it crossed too my hard left, and squeezing the trigger thinking, "this will hurt!" and opening up my nose too the bone.

I'd like to see thinner rubber eyepieces, like roll-up ones on binos but tapered so they don't add to tunnel vision. My hope would be they'd crumple if they hit you, softening the blow progressively, analogous with modern car bodies.

Proper firearms handling/training/experience would be of more importance imo. I`m certainly not saying it cant happen but so far touch wood.
Closest I have come is a 300 Win Mag shot up a steep hill scenario similar to shanks above,the scope only just touched me..no blood no pain but experience.

In my case I dont get magnum eyebrow, My bloody big nose gets in the way every time.

Never been touched by a scope because I always mount them well forward so my head and neck are stretched forward to obtain the full field view and the rifle butt is solidly in my shoulder.

So many rifles of others I have shouldered over the years have scopes too far back so your head and neck are all relaxed and upright with the butt also just sitting relaxed in the shoulder. As the rifle recoils back into the shoulder the head and neck go forward just like a loose mounted scope tends to.

If the rifle is pulled tight into the shoulder and the neck/head pulled forward then under recoil everything moves back in unison and you will never get the "Weatherby" eyebrow.

Mounting the scope forward automatically forces you to get the butt tight into the shoulder and head/neck forward so you can get the full field of view in the scope.

My guide in Alaska called it the Weatherby mark of excellence.

I get it in the shnoz, too, on the odd occasion it happens.

I like eagle's outlook on mounting the scope well forward but strangely have been hit even by one like that. Without thinking about it, I used to crawl the stock with the old Kahles Helia Super 27 on my Sako 338. The Kahles has shortish eye relief(s ) but flexible eye box, so there's really no need to push your luck. But once in a blue moon I would get in the way of it, usually when someone was watching.

The Hensoldt Diavari on that rifle now has longer eye reliefs and is mounted higher, so I can shoot head-up from near the back of the sloping comb. That one hasn't hit me yet.

Part of the problem may be using older variables at the higher powers. I've got one that gives about 115mm eye distance (to the eye piece) at 1x but only 65mm at 4x.

Been there too. Fortunately the biggest caliber where I've done that to myself was an '06.

Side question: I know Tikka rifles are very popular in NZ. Are there problems with magazines falling out with any regularity?

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JeffreyPhD
posted 27 February 2023 09:03
Side question: I know Tikka rifles are very popular in NZ. Are there problems with magazines falling out with any regularity?

I have T3 and T3X Tikkas. Both run the same plastic magazine system. I've had incidents with magazines falling out of both, especially when the magazines are completely full. When correctly inserted into the magazine resess they do stay in place but care is needed. The latch holding the inserted magazine in place is not substantial and care is needed to ensure it's properly engaged. An empty magazine slots and clicks into position easily. Just listen for the click and give the magazine a quick tug to make sure. The best way to insert a fully loaded magazine is to open the bolt first, insert and "click" the magazine into place. To then close the bolt on an empty chamber the top round in the magazine needs to be depressed but that's not easy for big fingers through the narrow ejection port. It's why most times a loaded magazine is inserted with the bolt closed which takes more force to "click" it into place and this is where my problems, and others problems, occurred. I mistakenly thought the magazine had "clicked" but it hadn't and subsequently fell out after a short time. If you are very careful about listensing for the "click" and tugging the magazine to ensure it's secure it's unlikely to fall out. My experiences anyway.

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Originally posted by JeffreyPhD:
Been there too. Fortunately the biggest caliber where I've done that to myself was an '06.

Side question: I know Tikka rifles are very popular in NZ. Are there problems with magazines falling out with any regularity?

I don't know about falling out with any regularity but I have related in another post where my nephew was very lucky to firstly hear, albeit slightly, a noise which turned out to be his Tikka magazine dropping down into thigh deep snow while hunting tahr in our Alps, and secondly he happened to notice the magazine out of the rifle and before taking another step managed to reach down into the snow and locate the errant magazine. Had he not heard the faint sound as the magazine hit the soft snow and checked his rifle he would never have found his magazine.

First thing he did on returning to civilisation was to get a spare magazine for the Tikka. I'm not sure of the details but he had taken a couple of long range shots to drop a bull Tahr so he may have re-charged his magazine again before setting off across the deep snow to retrieve the bull and not clipped the magazine properly in place.

Here is the Tikka in question with the magazine 'firmly' in place and the successful outcome of that day's hunt.

eagle27 and 30-06king,
Thank you both for your very detailed feedback. Tikkas seem to be rowing in popularity, at least around where I live here in the US. I have seen various magazine issues on several makes of rifles, not unique to Tikka.

Yes Tikkas are a popular rifle for good reason. Any rifle with a clip in magazine has potential to lose the magazine.

I have a Gevarm E1 semi auto 22LR with a clip in magazine and the left hand feed lip on the mag, by design, acts as an ejector so it is very important not to lose the mag and spares are almost non-existent.

I could be wrong but I now seem to recall my nephew saying he put some tape on the sides of his Tikka magazine to stop it rattling when in the rifle.