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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1315827" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>Sounds to me like you'd benefit from time on a 2-stage trigger set up nice and light. Some positive takeup to a shelf. Getting to feel the shelf is step one. Once you're on target then take up stage 1 and start the slow build up of pad pressure on the trigger until the bang. It will help take the startle out of the surprise. Training on a very light weight 2-stage like got me over the same sort of issue I think OP is having. Instead of being just a little surprised when it went off I was muscling the gun without realizing it because I was tense about the impending startle that the surprise bang gave me. Learning to get over the startle was the single thing that got me from very inconsistent groups where I'd often blame the gun (dumb) to being able to trust that the group size I'm getting is not being unduly influenced by my own skill or lack thereof. Training like that built up a sort of Pavlovian response in me to the impending bang and recoil in that if there's a little pressure on my trigger finger behind a rifle now most of rest of my body instinctively relaxes (the parts that don't need to be a little tensed anyway) and my sight picture focus goes primary and the trigger actuation is a sub-process. Everything else just falls away and the rifle becomes an extension of you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1315827, member: 96226"] Sounds to me like you'd benefit from time on a 2-stage trigger set up nice and light. Some positive takeup to a shelf. Getting to feel the shelf is step one. Once you're on target then take up stage 1 and start the slow build up of pad pressure on the trigger until the bang. It will help take the startle out of the surprise. Training on a very light weight 2-stage like got me over the same sort of issue I think OP is having. Instead of being just a little surprised when it went off I was muscling the gun without realizing it because I was tense about the impending startle that the surprise bang gave me. Learning to get over the startle was the single thing that got me from very inconsistent groups where I'd often blame the gun (dumb) to being able to trust that the group size I'm getting is not being unduly influenced by my own skill or lack thereof. Training like that built up a sort of Pavlovian response in me to the impending bang and recoil in that if there's a little pressure on my trigger finger behind a rifle now most of rest of my body instinctively relaxes (the parts that don't need to be a little tensed anyway) and my sight picture focus goes primary and the trigger actuation is a sub-process. Everything else just falls away and the rifle becomes an extension of you. [/QUOTE]
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