Thread: New shooter advice.

Originally Posted by GravelBen

I think its frequently a technique and mental thing rather than physical, which is why its often inexperienced shooters that struggle with it. Stock fit and shape is a factor too.

+1 a newbe will devlop a flinch with a high recoil gun as he/she doesn't have the right technique to handle recoil so it "hurts"
and then there after it's a mental think telling them its going to hurt even if they are shooting a 22 so they flinch

my personal experience my brother applied for his FAL as he wanted to get into hunting a few weeks later a very good deal on a howa 270 came up on trade me I knew it wasn't the best cal for starting out due to recoil but I thorght fuck it hes a big boy (a built 90-95kg) and will be able to handle it and told him id buy it on his behalf till his FAL arrived not ideal but was well within this price range and he still had money left for a good scope

I took him to the range to sight it in after that his licence arrived and he taged along to the south island with me and another forum member (the other forum) and down there he missed everything he shot at and used one of the other guys rifles to shoot his 1st deer

granted it wasn't all him and there were issues with the firearm which were fixed but he had developed a bad flinch and I mean bad so we chose to sell the 270 and he brought a tikka t3 in 6.5x55 that's way better but still took him quite a few range days to get rid of the flinch

anyway a bit long winded I know but just thought id tell the story