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- From: mjalava@lk-hp-17.hut.fi (Mika Matti Jalava)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Eye injuries from telescopic sights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.123404.5769@nntp.hut.fi>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:16:34 GMT
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
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- In article <1992Nov16.144141.21072@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson) writes:
- #It is interesting how a scope can come back and smack you
- #in the eye. Current doctrine in US Army for M-16 is to put
- ...
- #My 7 year old son shoots my Remington 788 .44mag with a 4x
- #leopold scope and has no problems other than the one he held
- #too loose.
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- These are both very low-recoil guns compared with big high power
- rifles. I think you could keep a scope attached to an M-16 against
- your eye when firing with no problems. The recoil is not far from
- zero. The .44 mag is also quite light as a rifle cartridge. When you
- go to .300 Win mag or similar (even many lighter calibers kick rather
- hard) this is a real problem. Don't try it, you won't like it. I mean
- a scope too near, not firing big rifles :-)
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- Mika
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