Magnum flintch

[allranch2025]

Years ago I acquired a collection of rifles, among them was a super cheap single shot, lever 22, I thought I'll try it out on some unsuspecting ground squirrels, loaded it, aimed pulled the trigger, click! nothing opened the breech ,gave the cartridge half a turn, aimed and bang. After that session with the rifle, I realized it could never be counted on to fire on the first trigger pull some times twice or even three times in a row, totally un predictable. What I did come to realize was that I had"Magnum Flintch" Further inspection of the rifle, it appeared to have the firing pin filed down intentionally, which produced the light strikes on the cartridge. My suspicion was that the previous owner had done this as a way to cure his own magnum flintch. The next time some bird hunters came up to the ranch, I posed my theory to them, they all thought I was wackey, until they tried shooting it, you would have thought they were shooting a ten gauge goose gun with mag loads

 

[Garciamarquez1918]

I have magnum and non-magnum flinch lol. The first step is admitting you have a problem.

 

[thriller]

For me the best method is to shoot the hardest kicking guns I have and them go back to the other one. It makes my brain go “this isn’t bad at all” I have found most people think this method is that of a crazy man so your mileage may vary

 

[skydiver386]

I shoot Olympic 10 meter air rifles and Benchrest level rimmfires quite often, and the concentration required to shoot these well from hunting positions will break you of any bad habits like recoil induced flinch.

 

[CBH Australia]

I guess I’m theory that may be why it has been done.
I doubt I would have thought of it and I’m not sure I like the idea.
Snap caps, practice and discipline are probably better options than messing with its reliability.