Blinking when shooting

[shmeddie]

Or you can use snap caps or dry fire repeadtly so you get use to the firing the gun without blinking. It is also a good way to help with a flinch and breathing.

+1

I dryfire with snap caps more than I shoot live ammo. Stops you from blinking, flinching, etc. I think that is the best advice for any one with those problems.

[Greg-Dawg]

Blinking = anticipating recoil = flinching.

Not good because you want to keep your eyes on the target.

[Can'thavenuthingood]

Way back there in 1968 while in Marine Corps boot camp we dry fired the M-14 for practice.
We'd cock it, aim and squeeze the trigger. When the click was heard another recruit would be positioned to the side and he would hit the muzzle to simulate recoil. Repeat often and do it again until you can go through the sequence without flinching.

Seemed to help quite a number of the recruits as we did well on the rifle range. Ended up with Honor Platoon award.

Find a recruit or recruit someone to tap your muzzle after dry fire.

That would be your 'rifles' muzzle for tapping sequence.

Vick

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I used to jump like a ***** when shooting, I did not grow up around guns. I also didn't start small and work up the ranks. I started with things like a .357, 300 weatherby and a 12guage shooting 3.5" mags. I am still a little jumpy when other people shoot, I am also a little jumpy when I'm shooting a gun I have not shot before but other than that I'm pretty good.

[Can'thavenuthingood]

I used to jump like a ***** when shooting, I did not grow up around guns. I also didn't start small and work up the ranks. I started with things like a .357, 300 weatherby and a 12guage shooting 3.5" mags. I am still a little jumpy when other people shoot, I am also a little jumpy when I'm shooting a gun I have not shot before but other than that I'm pretty good.

Maybe thats one of those first imprint things going on in the brain.
Started with a blank slate and BANG, the noise and recoil are forever imprinted on the psyche. Then have to be untrained and retrained.

Those new to guns ought to start with smaller calibers like the .22 or the BB gun and work up.

Bothers me when I hear of some *** starting his wife with a .357 or .44 just for laughs. She is pretty much against and scared of guns from that point.

Same with kids.

Teach them right and proper, you may have to rely on them someday.

Vick

[Dark&Good]

I have no idea whether I blink or not, when shooting my 12ga slugs. But my accuracy is very good on 75 yards, and if I ever realize that I do blink, I won't worry about it :-)

[mcsoupman]

So blinking before pulling the trigger is bad then?

[Can'thavenuthingood]

So blinking before pulling the trigger is bad then?

Buckshot, no. Everything else yes.

Unless you are going from High Beam to Low Beam

Vick

[lowdrop2001]

I also blink but im getting better as i shoot more often