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olbriar said:
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Funny-scary story. I was probably 10 years old. My dad bought a new rifle, a 30.06 which would take down a buffalo if I recall. My dad was no dummy so he gave it to the range master to give it the inaugural firing. The rifle had a huge scope like the picture. The range master set it up and was very professional. When he fired the first shot, the eye piece of the scope massively recoiled, cut a perfect and deep circle around his eye and cracked his orbit. Blood everywhere and lots of moaning. Off to the ER. Immediately sold the rifle and as you can tell, I am still scarred some 60 years later
 
IHateMyTreo said:
Funny-scary story. I was probably 10 years old. My dad bought a new rifle, a 30.06 which would take down a buffalo if I recall. My dad was no dummy so he gave it to the range master to give it the inaugural firing. The rifle had a huge scope like the picture. The range master set it up and was very professional. When he fired the first shot, the eye piece of the scope massively recoiled, cut a perfect and deep circle around his eye and cracked his orbit. Blood everywhere and lots of moaning. Off to the ER. Immediately sold the rifle and as you can tell, I am still scarred some 60 years later
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Weapons should not be feared but always respected! It wasn't the round fired or the scope on the rifle that caused the injury. It was ignorance of the range master. I'm glad it wasn't your father.
 
olbriar said:
Weapons should not be feared but always respected! It wasn't the round fired or the scope on the rifle that caused the injury. It was ignorance of the range master. I'm glad it wasn't your father.
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You are 100% correct, Olbriar! And yes, grateful it wasn't my dad (or me as I was clamoring to give it a try). It would have sent me to visit Alice Kramden on the moon. Poor range master, it was a skeet range so he probably had no clue it would kick his a$$.
 
I once bought a beautiful 30.06. At the time I had a very generic .243 that I regularly shot off of a bench at paper. I took the Weatherby to the range and proceeded to sight in the scope. It was a straight shooter and the 30.06 is a sweet round. It's way too much firepower to be punching holes in a paper target, however. It beat me up. I sold the rifle a couple of years later.
 
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