I've researched methods to correct flinching, but overwhelmingly the advice is only to identify that flinching is happening not to correct it. It's easy to shoot a round, open the cylinder, spin it and close it without looking and then notice the flinch when randomly coming upon the already spent cartridge, or if using an autoloader, have someone load some dummy rounds among live ones in the magazine. So I'm flinching. Now what do I do to correct it?
I'm asking this for the sake of gaining knowledge. I realize I can improve somewhat by merely giving trigger control some attention. Focusing myself on muscular calmness, like meditation can prevent unnecessary tension. What else?
Is it better to decrease power factor and increase gun mass so felt recoil is diminished? Does this condition oneself so that as power factor increases and gun mass decreases in the future flinching will be less likely? Or is it better to face heavy recoil and overcome it? By facing heavy recoil I mean within one's ability to be under enough control to be safe, but where it is quite likely to cause one to flinch.
You either flinch or you don't flinch. If you're shooting a powder puff load all day, you haven't really faced the flinch. If you're shooting a magnum, every shot is an opportunity to overcome the flinch -- or is it just reinforcing a bad habit? What do you think?
I'm asking this for the sake of gaining knowledge. I realize I can improve somewhat by merely giving trigger control some attention. Focusing myself on muscular calmness, like meditation can prevent unnecessary tension. What else?
Is it better to decrease power factor and increase gun mass so felt recoil is diminished? Does this condition oneself so that as power factor increases and gun mass decreases in the future flinching will be less likely? Or is it better to face heavy recoil and overcome it? By facing heavy recoil I mean within one's ability to be under enough control to be safe, but where it is quite likely to cause one to flinch.
You either flinch or you don't flinch. If you're shooting a powder puff load all day, you haven't really faced the flinch. If you're shooting a magnum, every shot is an opportunity to overcome the flinch -- or is it just reinforcing a bad habit? What do you think?