ORIGINAL: gandilamont
I started shooting and hunting with a 30-06 when I was 12. It ruined my shooting for a long tome due to recoil. I had a flinch.
I did the same thing. Really had to focus to NOT flinch with my 06. When I got my son a .243 for his 12th birthday, I liked it so much that I got myself one. And, as if by magic, no more flinch... and the deer are just as dead...