Can recoil damage the eye?

[Kurt]

Back a couple years ago I was shooting at the Baker match during some high temperature and I woke up in the mornings early morning dawn and I could not see the light coming through the roof vent with my right eye. It was completely blacked out till I glanced by it and as the light brightens the black spot turned red. This made me to make the trip to Miles City Mt to look up an Optometrist to see what's going on.
I was told that I had some retina damage and was advised not to shoot anymore till this heals so I pulled out.

Well this happen again last week on Monday at the Q. I shot the .45-2.6 getting sight settings using the tang sight and I only fired 52 shells and later in the afternoon changed to the .38-50 Hepburn with the tang sights for finding the zero's for it. And I must say the little .38-50 held the 805 Buff in the switching breezes just as well as the big .45-2.6 and maybe even better with 14 hits without a miss.
Well Tuesday morning there was that black donut again looking at the window shade with the right eye. There was just a small hole of light in the center and it turned red as the light brightened and disappeared by the early sun rise so I ignored it and desired to shoot the .38 again.
\Well getting back on line when the range was open I could not see the Buffalo through the tang sight, just a dim glimpse of the white spot on it so I moved to the stop sign and the same went for that so I went back to camp and mounted the scope on the Hepburn and went back to the buffalo to get the sight settings. After a couple shots fired I was on it and Carolyn said that was a miss but I said I saw the strobe light flash and she said no it was a miss. I think this is when the left eye might got it's damage because the next morning both eyes had a donut bad enough that at 5 feet from the window shade there was about a 24" black spot I could not see the light through but it also disappeared during the day light but I could not see the smaller targets looking when the sun was in front.
I quit shooting but I wanted to stay and spot for my friend I been shooting with for the past 20 some years but I could not see well enough looking through the spotting scope to see hits. The left eye was better than the right.
This is tough watching shooters on line and not being able to join in so I desired to pull out and see my optometrist at home.
Well on Monday I had him look and he said I'm getting you an appointment with a retina specialist and have him look at this.
He didn't like the redness I'm seeing. Stop shooting till he looks at your eyes.

Right now I lost my center night vision in both eyes with the dim night lights on at a distance.

So you guys be careful as you age shooting these shoulder bumpers.

Kurt