Thread: head games

John Wayne "true grit is having the fear ,and saddling up anyway"

pretty much sums it up bud.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

John Wayne "true grit is having the fear ,and saddling up anyway"

pretty much sums it up bud.

I have never seen the movie so I watched the trailer. Seems like a great movie. The young girl had the grit and john Wayne had turned to the bottle and fell off his horse pissed !

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

This opens a wider topic than just shooting 'How to deal with the mental consequences of traumatic situations' Having a gun blow up would make me forget hunting and go fishing, so good on you for keeping at it.
A bad / cheating relationship can put us off rooting for a while, a car crash can make us windy about driving. I dont know the answer to your situation MD (or the others) as it is a symptom of a bigger issue FEAR. How to overcome the fear of the same happening again. I do know time heals and all that but it would be nice to have some tools and methods to speed the process

I recommend this book. Recently published. Ive bought 2 copies now and given both away (after reading it myself).

https://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/product...-angst-6596013

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

John Wayne "true grit is having the fear ,and saddling up anyway"

pretty much sums it up bud.

The John Wayne version is very rip roaring, the remake was just odd.

My wife has just bought the book, 'The life changing art of not giving a flying fuck'

Originally Posted by Tahr

I recommend this book. Recently published. Ive bought 2 copies now and given both away (after reading it myself).

https://www.whitcoulls.co.nz/product...-angst-6596013

Does the book give us the tools to deal and recover from traumatic situations or does it just examine / explore what goes on ??

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Does the book give us the tools to deal and recover from traumatic situations or does it just examine / explore what goes on ??

@Moa Hunter its chocker with tools and interventions as well as dipping into the theory. Includes illustrations and cartoons.

Originally Posted by Tahr

@Moa Hunter its chocker with tools and interventions as well as dipping into the theory. Includes illustrations and cartoons.

Be very useful then. I think if we are honest, nearly all of us have had some crap happen somewhere along the path of life

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

I have never seen the movie so I watched the trailer. Seems like a great movie. The young girl had the grit and john Wayne had turned to the bottle and fell off his horse pissed !

find it and watch it...Glen Campbell in it too if memory serves me right. he couldnt shoot for shit so got a sawn of SxS....young woman used a 44/40 colt dragoon.....think that was only superseeded by the 44 mag as most powerful handgun....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

find it and watch it...Glen Campbell in it too if memory serves me right. he couldnt shoot for shit so got a sawn of SxS....young woman used a 44/40 colt dragoon.....think that was only superseeded by the 44 mag as most powerful handgun....

You realise its not real, eh.

I know.....but was a great movie for an impressionable young fella....

I find the best way to get the shooting technique right when you get a bit flinchy to to go back to dry firing (at home on a paper target, and also using the .22LR. Focus on technique and shooting tight groups.

Then your build on this by starting each session with the .22 before moving up the calibres, .22, then .222/3 and then into the bigger center fires. The confidence flows on and up the tree.

I do think you also need a natural inclination of some sort though . My 13 yr old daughter shoots my 338 yet full grown men , even after seeing my daughter shoot it , still cower from having a go .
And I have offered the 45/70 for a few shots to others but they seem to find it intimidating and have turned it down without even trying it out . Just the size of the round is enough to put them off . Fair enough too.... We all like different things are are put off by different things .
I don't mind a kick , others don't like it , but I wouldn't hold it against them .....
Depends what you are used to as well I guess .

Greetings All,
I think that the thing that helped me in shooting was starting to use a proper rest and rear bag on a solid bench. The second thing was concentrating on the follow through after the shot ie not jerking your head back after the shot. Early on I shot with a sand bag on the spare tire on the bonnet of my Landrover standing and leaning on the wing. This worked OK but shooting with a proper rest on the concrete benches at Taupo was a revelation. I recently tested some loads in my old .308 on my home bench and it shot better than ever before. As we get older some days we are not up to it, we just have to be honest with ourselves on those days.
Regards Grandpamac.

Have had a couple of 338 Laps built on 995 actions, shot them comfortably, the only flinch I developed was when I was doing some LR with the boy, and I had accidentally taken the muzzle brake off without him seeing before he got on the gun. The names he called me a minute later gave my ears a flinch that lasted ages.

NEVER prop yourself with your shoulders against a boulder when firing uphill, even with a lowly 308.

Even after the bruising has gone the flinch remains...