Flinching Poll:

What option best describes "you & flinching"?

  • Happens to the other guy, never to me..

    Votes: 37 23.3%

  • I flinch all the time.

    Votes: 8 5.0%

  • I'm working on it, but stray occasionally...

    Votes: 114 71.7%
  • Total voters
    159
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I still flinch often, and quite strongly sometimes, but I'm working on it. I shoot a couple hundred every week (I need to shoot more :) but I'm poor), mostly .22LR, and find that I often develop a flinch that goes off and on as I shoot. Sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be almost caliber-independent--my groups in .45 LC aren't much bigger than my groups in .22LR.

I try to dry fire a lot, and almost never notice a flinch there, but put a real round in and sometimes I'll pull one almost off the paper at a measly 15 yards. It's getting less problematic, but I'm not really a good shot anyway. :eek:
 
Had that problem when I shot my first handgun (Glock 17). All my shots went far to the left (the grouping wasn't bad for a newbie, though ;) ) After that...never again.
 
For reasons that I don't know or understand, flinching has never been a problem for me.

My only guess is that when I was taught to shoot, my instructors really paid alot of attention to what I was doing.

I also like recoil. Taking a hit is somewhat fun. Not as fun as giving one, but still fun.
 
Every now and then, but..

...

Nowhere near like I did for the first 4 months, but it comes, IMHO, with any new, mainly, larger caliber gun one gets and shoots for the first time..

Concentration is the key, using all the techniques for balance, but every now and then, when I shoot the last shot, but fail to realize it, and pull the trigger, once in awhile, the gun will go "slightly down", and it always gets a positive chuckle from myself, and lets me consistently know that I'm still human.. and can always "improve." lol


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Have a strange one where I slightly pull the gun BACK. The sights still stay lined up on target. Notice it when I have a FTF or I ride the mag-release. Seems I pull it back about 1" or so on firing. Don't know if it really qualifies as a flinch though.
 
I don't have a recurring problem with the flinches, but every once in a while I get the odd flinch that shows up. Usually in the spring when I start shooting in earnest after a winter slowdown. Quickly cured, but it's there sometimes.
 
I don't really think about it.

Now, I'm probably gonna think about it. And, thinking about it, I'll probably flinch.

Thanks a bunch.


Just kidding... I think.
 
I don't flinch, but that's because I don't ask for one...I don't intend to shoot Cape Buffalo, so I don't shoot Buffalo rifles. I draw the recoil line at my Mosin-Nagant, and my 2 3/4" 12 gauge. I won't need anything heavier, and usually go lighter. Bullet placement is where it's at for me, and I do all I can to insure that...
 
I tend to flinch when I anticipate the shot or when I get my sight picture and want the gun to discharge.... NOW. My tendency towards those bad habits is usally when I am shooting SA. So, I concentrated on smoothness and purchased some DAO pistols (which I shoot very well with). :D
 
I used to flinch just like everyone else.

That's cured with cap n ball exercises, dry fire, and sending 50,000 rounds down range.
 
Flinching has never been a problem for me. I started with a pellet gun at 12, advanced to .22lr, .38--went to muffs, I credit that for NO flinching. Eventually went for the .44 Mag, .45 acp.

My major game in the 70's was bulllseye which I started with .22, you can't flinch with bullseye or game over.

I learned while duck hunting if you don't wear ear plugs your hearing is going to go.
 
I hardly ever flinch anymore when shooting MY guns... Now, same can't be said about other peoples guns. I know I flinched when I shot my buddies Desert Eagle the other day (Well, the first shot anyway)... lol
 
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Be seated.

Men, this stuff we hear about Americans flinching is a lot of bullsh**. Americans love to shoot - traditionally. All real Americans love the smell and flash of shooting. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a shooter and will not tolerate a flincher. Americans despise flinchers. Americans shoot to hit - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who flinched and laughed. That's why Americans should never flinch, not ever, for the very thought of flinching is hateful to an American.

You are not all going to flinch. Only two percent of you here today would flinch in a major shoot. Flinching must not be feared. Every man flinches at first. If he says he doesn't, he's a godda** liar. Some men are flinchers, yes! But they shoot just the same, or get the hell shamed out of them watching men who don't flinch. The real hero is the man who shoots even though he flinches. Some get over their flinch in a minute while firing, some take an hour. For some it takes days. But the real man never lets flinching overpower his shooting and his innate manhood.

That is all.

:p
 
The flinch fix that has worked for me:
Have a buddy load your revolver with 1 live round and 5 snap caps/empties and hand it to you. Trust me it works.

Patton is never wrong!
 
Flinching is a sign of two things, lack of concentration and a firearm that's uncomfortable to shoot. When my concentration flags, I flinch.

Something that REALLY bothers me is the ludicrous idea that the way to teach a kid "gun safety" is to give him or her a too powerful [for them] firearm and let them shoot it without proper instruction. I have a good friend [fortunately not a gunowner] who thinks that's the way to teach a kid "respect" for the power of a firearm. Mostly, it's the way to teach them to flinch.
 
Be seated.

Men, this stuff we hear about Americans flinching is a lot of bullsh**. Americans love to shoot - traditionally. All real Americans love the smell and flash of shooting. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a shooter and will not tolerate a flincher. Americans despise flinchers. Americans shoot to hit - all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who flinched and laughed. That's why Americans should never flinch, not ever, for the very thought of flinching is hateful to an American.

You are not all going to flinch. Only two percent of you here today would flinch in a major shoot. Flinching must not be feared. Every man flinches at first. If he says he doesn't, he's a godda** liar. Some men are flinchers, yes! But they shoot just the same, or get the hell shamed out of them watching men who don't flinch. The real hero is the man who shoots even though he flinches. Some get over their flinch in a minute while firing, some take an hour. For some it takes days. But the real man never lets flinching overpower his shooting and his innate manhood.

That is all.
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That was great! I can hear George C. Scott rambling on.....:D
 
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