Hope all goes well in your recovery.

Surprisingly, it seems, a lot of fellows on this Forum know what it is like to get shot. Me, too, and I still have pellets in my shoulder.

I was wearing plastic lensed (polycarbonate??) glasses when I got shot, and those lenses clearly saved my vision, as both lenses took pellets, one pellet was directly centered on my right pupil, and a couple of pellets struck lower on the left lens. If not for the glasses, there'd be no telling if I could still see. It was an "accident", but it still hurt. I guess you probably wonder about what your buddy was thinking, and I bet he does, too. I don't believe the man who shot me has ever held a shotgun since, as he felt worse than I did about it.

Hope you make it back to the woods next spring!!