Posted: 11/26/2011 9:08:15 PM EDT
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Went to the range today and noticed that I am coming off the scope before i finish the shot. Any sugestions on how to break myself of this bad habit, Mind you I did alright at a 100 yards but i feel like i could tighten things up a bit if I can stop with the flinching, I was doing this with both my AR and my 30.06. I was shooting I guess something in the 2.5 MOA sized group with both and I am pretty sure both guns will shoot a little tighter than that if I can just do my part.
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Practice this
1. get comfortable in your position 2. line up the sights 3. line up the sights on the target 4. inhale 5. exhale 6. squeeze the trigger (if the sights and target are still in alignment - if not go back through steps 1 through 5 till your position is correct) 7. inhale 8. let up on the trigger 9. pull you cheek/head off the stock Practice it and after awhile you'll do it without thinking about it. |
| Have a buddy load your rifle, mix in a snap cap or two with live rounds, keep shooting until you don't flinch when the snap cap is chambered. Also take a break from the centerfire and get the 22 out and shoot a bunch with major emphasis on form and trigger control. Hope this helps. |
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Have a buddy load your rifle, mix in a snap cap or two with live rounds, keep shooting until you don't flinch when the snap cap is chambered. Also take a break from the centerfire and get the 22 out and shoot a bunch with major emphasis on form and trigger control. Hope this helps. What I was coming to post: Dry fire pratice, ball and dummy drill, and then break out the .22 to brush up on fundamentals. 
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I dry fire but I tend to think it can teach some shooters EXACTLY when to flinch. (The trigger breaks......FLINCH-here-)
Live fire practice - overcoming your natural reaction to very loud noises & recoil should be a priority - though certainly more expensive and time more difficult than dry-fire. A .22 - then working your way up to larger calibers may be a cheaper live-fire option for overcoming flinch. ETA: Ball-and-Dummy drills are excellent and will let you know when you're flinching. At least that's my thoughts -Mike |
| I heard some points made by Bill Rogers about flinching. He said that the surprise ball and dummy thing could be counterproductive because flinching on a dummy round is perpetuating a mistake. He also said that flinching or not flinching is a subconscious response to concussion so you can't really "think through it" you have to train it out. His solution from what I gather was training that involved immediate feedback like shooting steel balloons act. He mentioned skeet shooting and or shooting live game and how we don't flinch or close our eyes because we want to see the result. I have noticed a flinch sometimes when I shoot my 308 with a muzzle brake on it (loud as hell but nearly any recoil to speak of) but no flinch when I shoot a 12 gauge skeet shooting. I intend to put allot more time and effort into trying this idea of training your mind so to speak with reactive targets and see how it goes. This is probably common sense stuff for allot of people but it was pretty ground breaking for me. I don't mean to misquote or misinterpret Bill Rogers by any means that's just what I got out of it. |