I have periodically experienced a flinch which involves not pulling the trigger coupled with a bucking forward into the anticipated recoil. I come away feeling the safety was on - which it wasn't. Only happens on one gun, a 12 ga, and usually only after a few rounds of skeet. Hasn't occurred with sporting clays, even when using that same gun. So I figure the problem is psycologically linked to skeet with 12ga - an unnecessary past time I have replaced by shooting 20ga. I think I built this problem by quite a few years and 10s of thousands of rounds with that gun shooting 1 1/8oz skeet loads, without hearing protection (before anyone was concerned about such things) and without a recoil pad. One of these days I will put a recoil pad on that gun just to see what happens thereafter.
