Had an accedent

[Guest Rod&dog]

Well lads had a bit of an eccedent yesterday,,And neary lost an eye,,Was zeroing in my air rilfe and a pellet some how managed to richoceot back and hit me straight in the eye,,Really hurt and i had to crawl around the house looking for the phone,,Couldnt see a thing and then i finnally got my mum to come home and take me to the hospital for eyes in bristol and had it looked at and everything,,But have not been able to see since and its got better now and i can see out of the eye but its blurry ,,They said i could of lost that eye as the pellet hit the ye and cut it,, but im better now and hopefully my eye will get better as i can not afford to lose an eye ,,Look forward to being to get back out with the dog but sadly thats it and the rilfe for me now.

[gnipper 6,410]

You were lucky there. A mate of mine was hit in the eye by a piece of clay pigeon in the second he lifted his safety shades to look at something when he was away from the stand and it popped his eye, after numerous operations, filling it with oil and silicone and hours on end of sitting face down resting his head on a table he can only see a bit out of the eye but thats better than no eye. I've come close when I was a kid and being stupid with air rifles, just coz theres no gun powder in them doesn't mean they aren't feckin dangerous.

Hopefully your eyes sorted soon.

[smiles40 24]

jeez just shows how easy something lifechanging like that can happen,that will make me think twice about what i shoot at when practicing,hope you have a speedy recovery and a good post as a warning to others.

[biffo 0]

yikes

 

what were you using as a backstop?

[borntoshoot 1]

sorry to hear that. a mate of mine got hit in the eye by a stupid kid shooting boileys at us.hes had 3 operations and a lot of pain(the boiley was the same size as his eye) his sight is still blurry and if i look through his rifle scope to me its blurry but to him its not. I did the same thing as you when i shot a bit of wood to sight my air rifle and the pellet hit me just below the eye.how lucky was that.

hope your sight gets better soon.

[lone wolf 0]

sorry to hear that mate,just goes to show you there is no room for complacency when dealing with safety.all the best for the future and im sure you will be back in the field shortly.

[Guest Rod&dog]

Well things should get better,, Just got to keep it easy for six weeks and keep it rested,,So lucky.

[Guest ragumup]

IT HAPPEND TO ME WHEN I WAS YOUNGER ZEORING MY AIR RIFLE AND THE PELLET BOUNCED BACK AND HIT MY (LUCKLEY) CLOXSED EYE SO I WAS OK

Edited January 18, 2009 by ragumup

[Malt 379]

Hope everything turns out OK.

 

A friend of the family lost an eye to a similar thing, years ago.

[osimons89 0]

ive had the same happen to me when i was younger caught me just above my eye and i must have shot hundreds of pellets at the same bank of soil. cant belive no one has said this yet but wear safty glasses. your be happy when one hits the glasses not your eye.

[Geoff.C 0]

A bit "after the horse has bolted" I know. But just for information, before a clay shoot recently, I loosed a couple of barrels of No6 shot at some safety glasses. Just put loads of dimples in the lenses, but otherwise ok. They were the widely available type, that will slip over your prescription glasses if you need them to. All the D-I-Y shops like B&Q have them, usually about £3. These would be ok if using a shot gun, but may be a problem with a tele-sight on a air rifle. They would definitely stop a ricochet though.

[hound 1]

glad t hear your eye is getting better, these things happen so easy. a mate lost his left eye a couple of years ago he was hammering in a 6" nail and it flicked up and hit him in the eye.