ORIGINAL: DannyD
One thing that has helped alot is wearing ear plugs under the muffs. I have much less of a flinch suggesting that at least a good portion of my flinching is due to noise and not all recoil.
Ditto.
Also, my first shooting was done sitting on grandpa's lap & shooting cans & bottles out the driver's side window of his Jimmy with a .22lr. No problems there - quality time, quality instruction (save for his drunkenness...), and quality shooting. It was the centerfire shooting that boogered me up.
My Dad's not malicious, by the way. That's just how they did things when he grew up. And, as a bomber pilot for 20 years, I'm not sure how much hearing he had left, anyway.
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