Flinch!!!!

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Does anyone here have a flinch? Or developed one and controlled it.
I had a strange thing happen to me. Was shooting and flinched 5 or 6 times with the scope, but when I went to Irons I did not flinch. I have nevrer had scope bite or anything.

Thoughts? will it pass?
 
I've had scope bite and bloody noses from rifles and shotguns. It will pass if you concentrate on relaxing at the shot.

Shotgun was never a problem on wing shots -- only on aimed ones. I believe I was tensing up too much and holding the gun too tight. I always relax now and never experience anything I'd refer to as "kick".

Scope bite from rifles always came from improper mounting of the rifle or odd angles of fire. I take the few extra seconds to mount it right and again concentrate on relaxing.

That said, I never had a flinch for more than the couple of shots it took me to work past it.
 
When you are at the range, get someone else to load your gun, only one cartridge a time. Don't watch him and tell him to load it sometimes and not others. You won't know if its loaded are not when you shoot. This may take some time to get rid of the flinch, but it will work. You will get tired of flinching when nothing is in the chamber.
 
Any painful experience or apprehensions can lead to flinching. As was mentioned work with a .22 or even a pellet gun and work on total focus on the target and proper trigger squeeze. At the range don't be scared to use shoulder protection like a PAST shoulder pad to make things comfortable. When hunting you are so focused on the target you'll never notice recoil. Even if you get scope bit hunting you won't even notice till someone tells you you are bleeding.

Having a bug buck in the crosshairs helps a lot too.:D In my teen years I shot a nice bear and totally got bit. The scar is still there 30 years later. I only new I got cut when my cousin pointed out I was bleeding.
 
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I just dry fired, and flinched. When I can see the hammer, I'm fine, but looking through the scope I'm flinching.
I have never flinched before.

It is happening with the last bit of squeeze on the trigger, and now that I've been here at this , I am thinking it might be the bit of creep that is on the trigger, is this possible that the creep is giving me a flinch?
 
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I have been bit by a scope several times in my life. I devoloped a flinch sighting in a 12gauge 3inch 7 pound slug gun. It doesnt bother me and after the 5 shot it wasnt bothering my shooting casue i was working through it. I then took a 22 and about 500 rounds before i did any percison shooting. i just start to ignore the recoil of the gun but after the third slug gun that day my shoulder was nice black colour.
 
sealhunter said:
Does anyone here have a flinch? Or developed one and controlled it.
I had a strange thing happen to me. Was shooting and flinched 5 or 6 times with the scope, but when I went to Irons I did not flinch. I have nevrer had scope bite or anything.

Thoughts? will it pass?
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Are you sure it is a flinch and not muscle spasms, for instance do you do any exercise/work involving the upper body, coffee/caffeine is also detrimental to a steady hold, either would explain why you do not get the problem with open sights, certainly if the firearm is not a good fit with a scope and you have to hold the firearm in an uncomfortable position thus requiring the muscle groups to actually hold a stance instead of allowing the skeleton to support with the least effort.

Either that or you need better ear-muffs !
 
I had a constant flinch once when I was younger. In fact I have never shot with someone that did not have some kind of flinch. I still have a bit of a sound flinch as well as target panic from time to time.

The best way for me to get rid of my constant flinch was to shoot my rifle with my eyes closed. Put it on the bench, line it up, close your eyes pull the trigger. Feel everyting as you do it. Trigger breaking gun recoiling etc.. It helped me
 
I've been shooting since I was 9. Started .22, 16gauge, 12 gauge.
First Rifle was 30 30, 223, 7mm rem mag, 45 70, etc.
As I said this is new. I am not sure why it is.
I am a big waterfowl hunter and do not flinch when shooting shotgun
 
I don;\'t flinch with a .22 but I was starting to with a 223 wssm.
I line up the target, pull the trigger and the next thing my eyes are closed or I am looking down from the scope at the stock after the shot, instaed of still up at the scope.

Open sights \, My head doesn't move
 
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i'ed say get an lighter trigger i used to flinch very badly till i got an trigger that was set to about an 1.5lb it worked for me and i always shoot better with it offhand to because your not concentrating on the trigger pull but lining it up and squezing instead of pulling it to the side. just my .2cents

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There is a type of flinch that has nothing to do with recoil, or noise! I call it the flinch of anticipation. It's common in target shooting, where no rests are allowed. I used to do a lot of one-handed, bullseye shooting with the 22 pistol. On slow fire shooting, the hardest shot to make, is the last of a string of ten, when the first nine are very good. There is a terrible tendency to yank the trigger on that last one. I preferred not to see where my shots were going, but at 20 yards indoors I could see the holes in the paper.
Once at a fifty yard outdoor, registered shoot, I had fired eight shots when a fellow shooter beside me had finished. He looked through his sscope and said something like, wow, yours are really in there, your going to win this event! So I blew the last two.
Later, I read a how-to pilstol shooting book by a world class shooter. He said the next time someone pulled that on him, he was going to take out his jack-knife, open the dullest blade and cut the guy up into little pieces!!
 
Take an SKS to the range and shoot a crate of ammo through it.
I bet the low recoil and long creeping trigger will get yah past your flinch. :D
 
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