Wow. Thats excellent. Look out bush dwelling elusive quadrupedsQuote:
Originally Posted by Nathan F
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Wow. Thats excellent. Look out bush dwelling elusive quadrupedsQuote:
Originally Posted by Nathan F
Just use a trebly as your go to gat.Works for meQuote:
Originally Posted by outdoorlad
I have not read this thread but when i first got my T3 7mil rem mag i lightened off the trigger pull to almost as light as it would go ,dunno what it actually is but bloody light and for awhile thought trigger was too light for me but then i spent 25yrs using a Browning BLR which has a truly horrible trigger, it must be around 4 lbs with a fair amount of creep thrown in for good luck!! but gee i still love that gun .
Anyway i spent alot of time dry firing my rem mag ,concentrating on my breathing and squeezing off the "shot" without any discernible movement of the retical on whatever i was aiming at.
Now i am used to the trigger its one thing i really like about my Tikka and dry firing practice has improved my shooting a lot .
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????
Lots and lots of dry fire goes along way.
Dry firing at a tiny dot of blue tack on the wall can do wonders.
And as you're squeezing the trigger remember to keep the pull constant and the same the whole way through the squeezing process.
Don't grab at the trigger when it's on target as it'll invariably stuff it up.
Trigger control, sight picture, grip and stance are the four basic fundamentals we ram home for competitive shooting which also apply aptly for hunting.
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?
Lots of great advice in the thread that im going to try out.
I get a lot of flinching when sighting in at the range so end up with shit groups, but no flinch when the adrenaline is surging as an animal is in front of me. For me it is the recoil and anticipation and not so much the noise.
the noise is PART of the "thing" that your subconsious wants to avoid...ear plugs AND earmuffs makes huge difference,it seems to make even stout recoil diminish .
I literally hated sighting in,even now I avoid it when possible....fitting suppressors was a real game changer for me.
Wear a rucksack when you shoot, the padded strap helps.
Shoot with relaxed face, both eyes open. One eye shut is a grimace halfway to a flinch.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yesmate
get a gun that dosent hurt you when you fire it.
limbsaver + 243 + suppressor in any weight it wont hurt you. I run a kimber montana(very light) and dislike recoil
also get someone to watch you shoot and call you a bitch if you flinch
that gets rid of them real quick
hah look at that little bitch, worried about a little recoil ect.....
just gotta work thru them and it might as well be funny
better still,get your mate to load rifle for you and hand it to you to shoot....and continue to do so...at some random point they will slip you a micky....and load fired cartridge...if you flinch...it will stick out like dogs balls,Ive seen fellas yank trigger and the muzzle sweep close to a foot sideways...... and the resulting "oh fcuk did I do that" is priceless and VERY helpful....... you realise what you are doing...and feel like a dork so stop doing it.
