How does your body learn to handle recoil?

[pat701]

Flinch!

 

[CurlyQ.Howard]

I also recommend building up muscle. Yes, proper technique is also critical, but the stronger you are and the more you weigh, the less that recoil will affect you.

 

[Old Grump]

pat701


Flinch!

That was helpful???

Are you saying he flinched or is going to flinch or should flinch or will develop a flinch or your dogs name is flinch? A little clarification please.

 

[zukiphile]

I haven't made any significant conscious changes, yet every time I fire it, it seems I handle the next one a little bit better. This happens over the span of even a range trip. How does this happen? Is it psychological? Do you subconsciously learn the recoil characteristics so your body prepares for the next shot better? I'd be really interested to hear about this.

The changing response to recoil over time will not necessarily be an improvement. I have seen people who start with heavy recoiling weapons developed a flinch worse than I have ever had.

In your position, I would put many thousands of rounds through that 10/22, reading some books on proper form along the way, before I spent more money on 7.62X51. You will not have anything like reasonable accuracy at longer distances anyway until you have a reasonable grasp of your form and held the trigger behaves.

I would also consider a good bolt action .22. You can do your long range practice with that at a mere 150 yards.