Moving to the "Dark Side"

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My scores at Trap have been awfull this Season. Mostly due to the dreaded "flinch" plus not seeing the bird properly. I tried a release trigger and it felt very natural. Anyone else shoot a release?
 
I've shot several rounds with release triggers. I like them for trap and any other pre-mounted game. They don't work well when shooting low gun games.

If I were shooting trap and nothing but trap I'd shoot a release and have an o/u set up release/pull for doubles. Like the release for skeet too but not quite as much.
 
shoot some smaller guns and lighter loads until you get back on track.The longer you allow a flinch to hang out with you the more it becomes you.I have found that if I feel a flinch coming on it's best to just back off the trigger,take a breath to relax and try again slowly or shoot lots of .22.

Do you wear good ear protection? it could work better if you double plug if you think the noise bothers you.
 
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You being a trap shooter with our club I thought you meant Skeet ....... it would be great to have you move over a couple of hundred yards, you seem to shoot fairly well the last time we shot it.
 
3macs1 said:
With you on this one Cat but some like them
W64 reload some real light loads to get that flinch taken care of. Stop thinking and focus on the bird and nothing else.
take care
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Been there done that. When something like that gets in your head doesn't matter what loads you are using.
 
cchaddock said:
You being a trap shooter with our club I thought you meant Skeet ....... it would be great to have you move over a couple of hundred yards, you seem to shoot fairly well the last time we shot it.
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That would force me to buy another Gun. :) Not sure about you Skeet guy's though heard some funny stories about your "###ual orientation". :)
 
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IMHO shooting too much causes it. No known cure. I took 5 years off (mostly)and when I came back, it was greatly reduced, but still appears periodically.
 
I took the time off for other reasons, but it's interesting to note that the flinching was dramatically reduced when I started shooting in earnest again. But it was not completely gone. Also, I did try a couple of release triggers, in different guns. I have one now that I'm not using ye,t unless my flinch gets unmanageable. But I really don't want to shoot release unless I have to. If I only shot trap, I would use one.
 
catnthehatt said:
I was off for a year and it danged near killed me!!!:eek::(
Shoulder injury, and man, can i start flinching FAST!!
I stick with sub gauge skeet and field guns for the most part, and when i do shoot trap it's only about 3 rounds a day.

Cat
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Where only a few short years ago you would find me out at our club each and every week on both the shoot days now I go out and shoot maybe 2 days per year. I don't have a flinch problem but I do get the heebie-jeebies once I go through the club gate for reasons I won't post ( club politics...opps did I say that?).........may have something to do with my complete loss of interest in shooting clays now!
Back on topic....flinching. Never had the problem ever but we had a shooter many years ago, world class calibre, was an amazing guy to watch shooting. He developed a flinch, a bad one, he took a clinic with Kay Ohye. Kay told him he developed it from recoil since he used to shoot on hot sunny days w/o a shirt on. At the end of a shoot his shoulder would be wide open raw meat, the rubber recoil pad mixed with sweat would rip the skin off him. He was told at the clinic he should go to a release trigger and see if that worked. Kay was certain it would. It cured it about 99%. He still would flinch now and then and even though Kay told him to wear a nice comfy cool shirt with a shoulder patch he continued to go shirtless on hot days. I always thought if he had just worn a shirt he would never have developed the flinch in the first place, his flinch was to me a reaction to pain from the gun tearing his skin and rubbing on the raw meat underneath. Point is as much as I am not a fan of a release trigger myself(yes I have shot them) for some people they work well. This may be an option for you to try.
 
the spank said:
Where only a few short years ago you would find me out at our club each and every week on both the shoot days now I go out and shoot maybe 2 days per year. I don't have a flinch problem but I do get the heebie-jeebies once I go through the club gate for reasons I won't post ( club politics...opps did I say that?).........may have something to do with my complete loss of interest in shooting clays now!
Back on topic....flinching. Never had the problem ever but we had a shooter many years ago, world class calibre, was an amazing guy to watch shooting. He developed a flinch, a bad one, he took a clinic with Kay Ohye. Kay told him he developed it from recoil since he used to shoot on hot sunny days w/o a shirt on. At the end of a shoot his shoulder would be wide open raw meat, the rubber recoil pad mixed with sweat would rip the skin off him. He was told at the clinic he should go to a release trigger and see if that worked. Kay was certain it would. It cured it about 99%. He still would flinch now and then and even though Kay told him to wear a nice comfy cool shirt with a shoulder patch he continued to go shirtless on hot days. I always thought if he had just worn a shirt he would never have developed the flinch in the first place, his flinch was to me a reaction to pain from the gun tearing his skin and rubbing on the raw meat underneath. Point is as much as I am not a fan of a release trigger myself(yes I have shot them) for some people they work well. This may be an option for you to try.
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I always wear a shirt when I shoot. And my fellow shooters are probably glad that I do. I don't think I have a shirtless "flinch". I think it is more of a sight or recoil flinch.
 
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