Thread: Dealing with a flinch

Greetings,
As mentioned above we teach ourselves to flinch and need to teach ourselves not to. The key is practice. Dry firing will help but only live firing will really kill the beast. If you have a .22 RF start with that. Every time you go to the range shoot 10 or so rounds at a target form sitting at first and moving up to standing later on. .22 RF rifles are brutally honest about flinching. Get a cobber to watch you shoot to see if he can spot anything you are doing sub consciously like lifting your head at the shot. Try to follow through the shot. Make every shot count. Next move up to your hunting rifle. If you are a handloader consider cooking up a batch of youth (light) loads with cheaper projectiles. Only shoot from a bench or bipod to sight in and check zero. As you have discovered we never really totally eliminate a flinch and it is always there waiting to sneak up on us.
Regards Grandpamac.