Flinch

Feisar

I wouldn't consider myself recoil/noise sensitive however i do prefer shooting with a mod, it's just nicer IMO.

A few weeks back I was shooting a .223, with a mod and realized i was blinking strongly on the shot. I was overthinking the hell out of everything and suddenly noticed this. I pulled myself up at that stage as I didn't want to iron in a bad habit.
I was at a Long Range Introductory Day (great fun and well ran by the way) at the Midlands last weekend shooting a .308and it didn't seem to be a factor.

Has anyone noticed things like this appearing for no accountable reason?

Vegeta

If I haven't fired the rifle in a while it takes me a magazine or two to stop flinching (that's fine on the range but not great when hunting). I've found it can be independent of calibre too, my 300 win mag used to be no problem but sometimes I catch myself doing it with a PCP air rifle :pac::D

Small bit of practice focusing on the fundamentals usually sorts it out for me, trigger pull and trying to spot the impact are the 2 cues that usually work for me personally.

otmmyboy2

Can sometimes happen, particularly if I haven't shot or dry fired in a while.
Or if I'm just especially fatigued that day.

If I know I'm going to end a dry stretch soon I'll set aside a bit of time usually the day before shooting live to do a bit of dry fire(10-30 mins depending on the next days activities) and that seems to sort out any flinching or cobwebs that have formed in my iterations.

cookimonster

I know that when I'd do a lot of pigeon decoying- actually trigger time verus sitting time in the hide, I would get bad trigger habits.
I'm convinced I developed a flinch when moving from a moderated rifle to a un-moderated bigger caliber. I sorted it through some dry fireing, a good set of ear defenders when doing range work and a lower profile scope. All seemed to help me with the anticipation and management of the recoil.

extremetaz

Feisar wrote: »

I wouldn't consider myself recoil/noise sensitive however i do prefer shooting with a mod, it's just nicer IMO.

A few weeks back I was shooting a .223, with a mod and realized i was blinking strongly on the shot. I was overthinking the hell out of everything and suddenly noticed this. I pulled myself up at that stage as I didn't want to iron in a bad habit.
I was at a Long Range Introductory Day (great fun and well ran by the way) at the Midlands last weekend shooting a .308and it didn't seem to be a factor.

Has anyone noticed things like this appearing for no accountable reason?

Slow down on the trigger.

...and I mean *really* slow down - literally a slow as you can possibly apply pressure to the trigger, remaining mindful of your sight picture all the while.

It'll sort itself out from there.

Feisar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117514702#Comment_117514702

Apologies, I don't know why but I only seen your response today. Thank you, I don't really think about the trigger to much when shooting.