rubber eye piece?

This is what you're looking for, I got them online, Natchez, I think.  You may find it elsewhere, as Natchez's shipping is terrible price, unless you are already ordering.  It helps, though it's not a shock absorber, it will make cut less severe, what gets me is shooting prone off bipod.

Bear;

Go to the Brownell's website & search either "soft eye" or Dvorak.  They are a sort of shock absorber it seems.

900F

Bear I am thinking a helmet might be in order.

I am still trying to figure out why you guys are using such big guns for deer. I shot my elk this year with my .270. My daughter thought I was cheating becuse she shot hers with a .257 Roberts. "Why do you need such a big gun daddy?" Mine took two shots.

Wing master

Lots of good thoughts.

yep, I knew the downhill shot,  1 handed RUMing it, in the blowing snow from the backrest of my hunting stool might be a whacker.  Did it anyway. 

Yep, it was like a hammer in the head, actually I have a very high pain threshold (drugs and diabetes?) but I actually did not lose sight of the deer and saw it go straight up and down then hit the ground dead...then I thought my nose was running down on my chest....just a solid stream of blood.  all those blood thinners I take everyday, mean slow coagulating and slow healing.  Filled two large orange bandannas, now red bandannas.  then a half roll of paper towels, to get it to only bleed slowly.  I think I will start carrying some med for bleeding, as I was not as remote as usual and really could have a bleeding problem in a large cut accident.

I was just looking for a rubber ring, in case the problem rises up and hits me again.  CB and Robert have the idea I was thinking of.

Yesterday I walk/jogged into a half open garage door, raising a large bump on my forehead beside the scab....maybe Wing is right.  I will start hunting and wearing my safety helmet.

Big guns!  Well, no one needs to shoot a big gun for a little thing like a deer.  My 257 r does a great job.  But I'm a gun nut, own 442 deer rifles, and take a different one most days, just to give them a walk in the woods.  Remember large rifles ruin less meat than small bullet moving fast.  My bullet entered the chest hit the heart and exited the sternum, zero meat loss.  But remember it was a steep down hill shot.

I've got a couple of Unertle scopes with the recoil spring.  really a pretty good idea, and as CB said more for the scope than the forehead.

Might take the 30 Herrett out for a walk tomorrow, half day.  we have two big gun shows sat-sun, and I want to hit them both.

YUP!

How many gallons of blood does a "BEAR" hold ????

styptic pencil ,   I have one in my shaving kit.

Here's a source for SHTF

http://www.chinookmed.com/cgi-bin/category/s-hemostatics

or just in case.

The Celox looks good for the really bad stuff, artillery bleeds and such, the preloaded syringe looks good for a small dia deep penetrating wound, just jamb it in hole and dispense.  What I was thinking of though for you, was the quickclot sport 25g, 50g and first responder 100g teabags/sponges.  A single one of the 25g size would stop a fairly large Bear leak, like a scope cut, knife slip or such.  The Celox has some downside, #1 as a powder, while not as bad as the quickclot powder, you wouldn't want it in your eye.

I've done a little research and even the battle packs have replaced quickclot powder with quickclot gauze and celox is used only for the stuff the gauze won't stop.  The sport version of quickclot sponge, is same strength as military, it just doesn't have gauze pre attached and is in different package.  They also have silver version, preloaded with anti-fungal, antibacterial, it runs about double, but may be an optician.

Beware when you buy it, it has three year shelf life and while it would still work after expiration date, I saw prices from $7.50 on sale to $10 reg price, $23 at survival type internet.  This was for 25g sport, I would not trust the clearance/sale one's dates and I hate getting took, so I would avoid some of the quick buck guys.