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Originally Posted by Tim Stapp
My son's high school wrestling coach was on one of the Army's High Power Rifle shooting teams. He told me that one of the training excersises they used was to have another shooter place a nickel on their front sight while in position (usually prone) and dry fire. They had to have one hundred consecutive shots without the nickel falling. If it fell, they started over.
I tried it (using one of my kids) and could never make it past twenty shots, usually much less.
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We were trained that way in 1968 w/our service revolvers. Our “homework” was to put the coin on the top strap of the revolver and dry fire as many times as possible w/o knocking the coin off the gun.