Thread: Dealing with a flinch

you said the flinch has returned-did you notice it returned after something happened eg missed an animal you usually would have got?sometimes you can be eager to right the wrong and start forcing the shot causing a bad technique to creep.also do you anticipate the squeeze or do you let the shot surprise you by slowly squeezing?

Originally Posted by Yesmate

you said the flinch has returned-did you notice it returned after something happened eg missed an animal you usually would have got?sometimes you can be eager to right the wrong and start forcing the shot causing a bad technique to creep.also do you anticipate the squeeze or do you let the shot surprise you by slowly squeezing?

No it just insidiously worked it’s way back in over a period of time. I had it badly 15 years ago. At that time my go too was a 7mmrum as I was fascinated with long range applications. It wasn’t even the recoil as it was minimal to be fair. It was the percussion of the shot. I only used a muzzle brake so you can imagine. I missed something like 8 deer on the trot before addressing the problem. Same this time round albeit I recognised the issue a lot earlier. For me being aware and conscious of the issue is the battle. I shot a stag on Friday at 220 yds in rapidly fading light with a piss poor rest so was pretty happy.