Way back when I went through academy I won the Marksmanship award (academy stuff, not world championships, etc). I attribute that to the fairly extensive practice I did in my hallway at home dry firing my 66 while being aimed at a target and while balancing an empty casing on top of the frame. The idea, of course, being to stay on target and dry fire as many times as you can without having the casing fall off. Many people also did/do this with a coin. It's really great practice, at least with a revolver.

The guy in the story is an idiot!