koorbloh

do you flinch like a girl?

yes you do.


how do you know how bad you flinch? have your buddy load, or rather, not load your gun and hand it to you, cocked and ready to go.

drop the hammer...boom, you react to recoil, right?
click...if your gun moves, muscles flinch...you flinched like a girl.


I do this with my revolver early every time I shoot by leaving empty chambers in the cylinder and pulling the trigger 6 times.

every time, without fail, I flinch on the empties.



now...how do I fix it? how do you fix it?

GixxerPete

I don't flinch ever... except when I do.

I find calling myself names helps. "Little girl" is a good place to start. Berate yourself enough, and your desire to be manly can overcome flinching.

Sentor

It's weird. When I know the gun is empty, I can pull the trigger and my eyes don't close nor do I flinch.

But something must be telling my brain "NO" when it hears noise.

I can still shoot really, really tight groups at 100yrds, but I still flinch like I don't have a pair. And my body gets tense before I shoot too. It's better on a bench rest, but freehand is where it gets me.

sunofnun

it's funny.. I think I flinch now and then..


I think when I'm shooting (and I think there is a round) I focus on the target.. and don't flinch much.

I often know the slide is open and I'll squeeze just to see if I flinch.. and I do! Retarded..

koorbloh

right. we all flinch.

how do you stop flinching?


I know that after I see how much I flinch dropping the hammer on an empty chamber, I flinch much less because my shooting is much more accurate.


maybe the trick is to put about 8 or 9000 rounds down range never knowing if it's actually loaded?

pnwvolks

I know I flinch on my .44 mag and my coach gun, but the others I don't. I know I used to flinch a lot when I first started shooting, but now its not as common. I video myself from time to time to see how to improve my mistakes or bad habits.

Dont be a girl hahahaha


cheers!

Brianaintright

Dry fire a lot.

96SN95GT

Try screaming like a girl before you yank back on the trigger. Should be enough to scare away the girly flinches and the gun should stay nice and steady provided you yank back on that trigger hard and fast enough right at the end of the scream.

richardlpalmer

Don't know if this will work for others, but when I usually get to the range I dry fire whatever I'm going to shoot (except the 22) a few times. I also dry fire when practicing drawing or shooting from the hip. There's also a drill for FTF where someone else loads your mags but puts a training round (or several) in them. You don't know how many or at what point they'll be in, so you just shoot and practice clearing it. That might be more helpful than I thought (for flinching).

I do notice myself flinching earlier in a session than later. I mean sometimes I flinch when someone's shooting a big rifle or something like that -- startles me. But after I've put a couple boxes down range I tend to not notice/care as much. I typically find my eyes stay open and I just practice whatever I'm practicing.

On occasion I specifically put attention on being surprised that the gun went off. But with most guns I shoot this isn't easy as I know where the break is and what to expect. With my Sig P250 it's easy. I really can't tell when it's going to fire. I just don't feel a break due to it being DOA -- I think this is helpful for me...

KillermondoDude

The secret to stop flinching is concentrate on the target so the BOOM becomes a surprise
the flinch is a result of anticipation of recoil
also my 44mag with the 4-5/8ths barrel has stock grips that fit thin in my hand and everytime i shoot that sumnabitch it hurts so i flinch like all hell with that

nother question how do you overcome trigger torque on a duel action pistol??

XDmFanatic

Does that make me the girl and my daughter the girly-man? She shoots a Ruger super blackhawk in 44 magnum. I like to mix it up for her and slip in an occasional full defense load with lite target reloads.