Thread: Dealing with a flinch

I started shooting with a 3006 and 8x57 with no recoil pads at the age of 15, that's one way to create a hell of a flinch... when I could I got a howa 7m08, still flinched realy bad put up with it for ages, tried heaps of .22 shooting and no flinch there but as soon as I picked up a full sized rifle the flinch would come back. I ended up buying a 7mm rem mag t3x, suppressed and limbsaver pad on it. Not sure how i thought it would help with my flinch.. I them bought a t1x in .17hmr, I have rifles set up the same even with the trigger weight. After lots of shooting with the .17 I jumped behind the rem mag which feels exactly the same and started shooting. No flinch. Took a while but feels good, nice and easy to practice shooting with a cheap rim fire and can easily transfer those techniques to a much lager Calibre as the stocks, foregrips, pistol grips , trigger weight and scope height is the same. Was a very expensive way of doing it but buy once cry once right????