Help with flinching the trigger

[Flinch]

All the advice posted is great.

Practice, practice, practice. Snap caps and ample dry firing worked for me.

Love the bang.

Flinch

[Lead Waster]

For me it used to be anticipation of the sound, not the recoil. Double up your hearing pro... earplugs and earmuffs. That might help. I have no idea when I lost the flinch...just practice I guess.

[glock22fs]

I am going to write you a prescription for dry practice. Do it for 10 minutes every day and your shooting skills will increase dramatically. also when you are on the range mix in some dry practice every few mags to stop the flinch before it even stops. if that doesn't work do more dry practice and like the others said forget you are shooting. you are just consistently building pressure on finger taking out just a little more slack and a little more and a little more. get that surprise break

[IrishPirate]

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[Agent Tikki]

I used a cheap $20 laser sight to help me out.......when I was relaxing and watching tv, I'd just practice dry firing and putting the dot about 15 ft away. Once I began to relax a little I put the dot on a far wall, about 25 ft away. At that distance, you can see even your breathing throws off your aim. In the end of it all, I think its just muscle memory that really helps so practice practice practice. Relax, and just focusing on moving only your trigger finger smoothly. I'm sure it'll fall into place. Also I noticed that shooting something with higher recoil (in my case 10mm) first helps me shrug off recoil the rest of practice.

[Steyrlp10]

...the aiming last school of thought is developed by Olympic shooters. its a harder skill to master because the aiming and settling period is very short. however, this processes ensure that your concentration is kept as short as possible where you can focus your concentration when you need it the most. in this method, your concentration is spent during each trigger pull upto moment where each shot breaks.

OP, great advice from everyone. What I have come to learn (and boy, I have lots of room for improvement!) is that there is also overholding the shot. "Shooting the wobble" sounds weird to some people, but the human eye and muscles in the arm aren't meant for perfection.

It takes a lot of practice, whether it's dry-firing or live fire, but trigger squeeze comes with the time you put into it. Anticipating the shot/flinching is suffered by everyone, but it can be resolved -- really

[NOTARPilot]

2 Words....Surprise Break

[Agent Tikki]

i used to hold that believe until i realize the position of the finger actually matters more than the location of finger placement.

by position i mean the finger must be in contact in such a way that only backward motion is experience by the gun. if you have too much or too little trigger finger, i.e. the pad of the finger is position on the left or right of the trigger center line, you will experience the same effect as if you were improperly pulling the trigger using your first joint.

ive just verified that it is possible to pull the trigger using your first joint w/o disrupting sight picture as long as the pull is directly back to the gun. keep in mind that the base of your trigger finger (3rd link) needs to be isolated from the grip of the gun (not touching).

This is interesting, I've figured this out while dry firing too. But everyone's hands are different so my technique will be different from just about everyone elses. All you really need to do is experiement, start by using the tip of your trigger finger's pad. Try the next a little farther down. And work your way down until you discover what works for you. I've personally found that if I put the top the trigger on the bottom part of my finger part, close to the join between the second and first segments, and then but the middle of the trigger(where I apply the most pressure to the trigger) to the middle of the finger pad, I get the most consistent trigger pulls. YMMW.

[chaseface]

just shoot lots and lots of rounds untill your comfertable

[rero360]

I would say if you have a reloading press or are friends with someone who does you can have some dummy rounds made up with spent primers and the same bullets that you are using, so without a serious inspection of the primer they will look and feel like live rounds, then mix them up with your ammo and then without paying too much attention, load your mags and go shooting, you won't know when they'll pop up but they'll be there and will show your flinch.

I would also recommend against shooting at indoor ranges as the increased noise makes it worse.

[gorenut]

What helped me was a lot of dry-fire practice and shooting revolvers in double-action. Take your time with squeezing the trigger, staging it, and eventually you get more used to focusing more on trigger control rather than bracing for recoil.

[cbabb]

try dime drills if you are shooting an ar15.

[luckygunner]

I've used snap caps/dry fire with a laser. Once you can control the trigger to the point where you can keep the laser on target through the trigger pull you'll be on your way.

Shooting a 22 is a good option also. My only issue is that you want to use a conversion kit and not a separate firearm.

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[PsychGuy274]

I put 8 live rounds and two dummies in a mag randomly. Focus on sight picture and you'll see when you dip the gun when the dummy round comes up.

Helped me a lot.

[owenriquez]

for me, forget the "here it goes" and focus more on the sight and target