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Does blinking hurt accuracy

Post by south » 01 Sep 2014, 8:34 pm

Hi guys,

At the moment when I shoot I find I'm blinking right as I take the shot.

I don't think I'm flinching physically. I just can't get the blink under control and do it right as the trigger starts to move.

Am I probably still hurting my accuracy with this?

Hard to tell what you're doing yourself and haven't had a shooting buddy to watch for me.

Thanks.
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Re: Does blinking hurt accuracy

Post by mausermate » 02 Sep 2014, 11:23 am

Yes mate, closing your eyes won't help :lol:

Have you tried shooting with both eyes open? that can often help. Also try some dry practice, you might be anticipating the recoil or the noise.

Hope you get control of it. Some of these habits can take a bit to shake.
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Post by south » 02 Sep 2014, 3:57 pm

mausermate wrote:Yes mate, closing your eyes won't help :lol:


I'm not that bad :lol:

It's just that last fraction of a second before the *bang*.

Haven't tried both eyes open yet though...
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Post by SendIt » 02 Sep 2014, 6:44 pm

I'd be very surprised if you were just blinking TBH.

Have someone watch you if you can, or video yourself or whatever.

I expect you'll find there is a small physical flinch that goes along with that blink.

That will be hurting your accuracy and you'll want to work on it.
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Post by 1290 » 02 Sep 2014, 6:59 pm

So you're not flinching.... you're just blinking when you take the shot right and pulling up?
News flash; YOU'RE FLINCHING

You need to train and teach yourself to not flinch. open both eyes and do not anticipate the boom-recoil, i did it by convincing myself that there would be no boom-recoil as I pulled the trigger. Think about it.

no flinch.... hahahahah. :lol:
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Re: Does blinking hurt accuracy

Post by tom604 » 02 Sep 2014, 7:56 pm

What are you shooting?

If you can try shooting a 22, no bang, no recoil, no blink?

Is your trigger hard/creepy? if so get a trigger job done, you want it to break crisp and clean so it almost a surprise when it fires,,almost :lol:

Get a mate to put a fake round in the magazine and dont look when you work the bolt,you will soon find out if it is a blink or a flinch and finally how are your groups looking ? nice and tight=blink only, all over the place= flinch let us know how you go ;)
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Post by Noisydad » 03 Sep 2014, 7:50 am

You probably are flinching as well. Maybe my competitive streak is getting a bit wide but I got lady noisy to video me shooting my Sharps and found it helpfull to study which bits of me are tensing up as I'm preparing to touch the trigger then I can focus on consciously relaxing those muscles.
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Post by Tiiger » 03 Sep 2014, 3:57 pm

SendIt wrote:I'd be very surprised if you were just blinking TBH.


1290 wrote:So you're not flinching.... you're just blinking when you take the shot right and pulling up?
News flash; YOU'RE FLINCHING


Noisydad wrote:You probably are flinching as well.


Yep, yep and yep.

Everyone says their not flinching and blames lousy accuracy on something else.

It's always flinching :lol:
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Post by south » 03 Sep 2014, 4:00 pm

SendIt wrote:Have someone watch you if you can, or video yourself or whatever.

tom604 wrote:Get a mate to put a fake round in the magazine and dont look when you work the bolt,you will soon find out if it is a blink or a flinch


I can do both of those.

Shooting .308 Tom.

I will try this weekend and come back with results for all the questions.
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Post by Sender » 04 Sep 2014, 1:40 pm

Tiiger wrote:Everyone says their not flinching and blames lousy accuracy on something else.

It's always flinching :lol:


Yep.

Dropping a dummy round in is the way to prove it.

Feed a few live ones for them then the dummy, and watch the rifle move when they pull the trigger and "don't flinch" :lol:
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