this is a bit embarrassing, but I have to share this.

I had my brother over this last weekend. we decided to go in the basement and shoot for a little bit (I have a pellet trap and various other mods to the wall), he wanted to try out my whisper after the tune up I had paid for. I showed him the safety, and handed it off.

my brother was obviously raised the same as me, and we grew up around rifles all the time. apparently my brother didn't absorb much. I asked him the last rifle he had shot, and it was my dads .22 a year or so ago.

my brother sat down, I got behind him, he took aim, and fired.

the pellet was almost a perfect bullseye.........however he had stuck his eye directly on the scope and the recoil smacked him dead in the brow ridge. Nasty cut, like a cresent moon.

I keep a first aid kit in the basment and I stopped the bleeding, asked if he was okay, then proceeded to chew him out.

he knew better than that, and he admitted it. "I don't know what I was thinking" he said. I think it has to do with he has been used to staring into his telescope at night, with his eye right against it.

he is doing fine.

but now my rifle doesn't shoot for crap either!

Ouch. That had to hurt. I had a friend shoot my .308 one time with the same results. He knew everything, so he didn't want any instruction. I watched him put a brand new half moon tattoo over the top of his eye. I think they call that 'humble pie'. As far as your rifle shooting like crap now, he may have jarred the scope loose with his eye. You might take it completely out of it's mount and give it a shake and listen for any loose parts.

I'll need to try that. He wacked it pretty good, so I tried to re-zero it, and I thought it was going to be okay.

3 missed squirrels later, something has to be wrong.