Standard recipe for flinching has traditionally been - - step down to a .22.Thoughts?
I used to follow that - - until I began shooting a .22 nearly 100% of the time & developing a flinch with the .22.
The big question there became, where does one go from a .22?
- Dry fire?
- BB gun?
- Something else?
I stumbled on a cure by accident. I got the flinches once at the range & only had a 1911 in .45 acp with me along with the .22. Actually, I had a Ciener .22 conversion on my Kimber and I had the .45 acp magazine and upper along with me & a box of .45 shells.
Since I didn't want to waste the hour drive to the range and the hour drive back home, I decided to shoot the .45 - just for the heck of it.
To my surprise, after a magazine, the flinch disappeared. I put the .22 conversion back on and went through a brick of .22's without so much as a hint of a flinch.
Since then, I've come to believe that it's the change from one thing to another that's important - - not the actual lack of recoil or increase in recoil.
Anything that can "override your brain" - and force you to concentrate on the basics will work.