a test to see if you have gun control

[tylor reimer]

this is a test to see if you have gun control what you do is get a dime and set it at the end sight and shoot a empty shell if it falls its bad gun control if it stays up it is good gun control on my mark 2 22 i can shoot reload and shoot again
my dad taught me that
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[Larry Ashcraft]

I'm moving this to Handguns, General and then we'll see if someone can make sense of what you're saying.

 

[10-Ring]

I learned this way back when...-make sure your handgun is EMPTY - then, lying a dime on the front sight & seeing how many times you can pull the trigger before the dime falls...FUN!

 

[Black Majik]

Oh, dryfire with a dime on the slide.

Yeah.. old trick but a good one...

 

[nibb]

Never heard of it, i suppose it doesn't work on all handguns. Its no the same a .22 as a .45

Try that trick on a derringer.

 

[03Shadowbob]

that's how I learned to control the barrel also except the instructor in the Police Academy years ago said to start with one quarter and move up from there. I started on a S&W 357. It's a good exercise to help you see if you are pushing, pulling, thumbing or whatever else.

 

[Pax Jordana]

OK - so we have translated him into english. Now somebody tell the rest of us how to do it!

Dime sits on your front sight? Perpendicular or parallel to the barrel?

 

[Black Majik]

Pax, if you can get a dime to stand parallel on your front sight I'd be darn impressed!

 

[pax]

Make sure you have a safe place to dryfire, with a good backstop. The TV does not count as a good backstop. Neither does a flimsy interior or exterior wall, k?

Unload your gun. Check that it is unloaded.

Remove ammunition from the room, including all loose rounds and all loaded magazines.

Double check that your gun is still unloaded.

Keeping the gun pointed in a safe direction, hold the gun with its barrel as level as possible.

Without pointing the muzzle at your own hand, place a coin on top of the front sight. Lay it flat, don't try to stand the coin on its edge.

Dry fire. Don't let the coin fall.

Pick up the coin. Put it back on the front sight.

Dry fire.

Pick up the coin ...

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

pax

 

[WeThePeople]

When I went through the US Army Basic Marksmanship Program, this was the method employed by the instructors to get us to smoothly squeeze M-16 triggers and to learn to focus on the front sight.

It worked wonderfully for me and I even IMAGINED the dime on there with live ammo fires to help my marksmanship. I did this until a smooth trigger squeeze was like breathing.

 

[kymarkh]

This is one way that we were trained in the Army to perfect trigger control. Works quite well if you use the buddy system. It can be a challenge to put the dime on your rifle barrel and 'get back to the trigger' without it falling off...

 

[yongxingfreesty]

i will try this when I get home. see if i flinch or not

 

[Leitmotif]

Keeps coming off when the slide goes back... ooooooh, I see, *dry* fire...

 

[Baphomet]

I find this is much easier when I tape the dime to the front sight.



Seriously though, I would like to find a way to attach the dime to a string or something that connects to the front sight without interfering with exercise. So when the dime does fall I don't spend fifteen minutes looking for it or retrieving it from under the heaviest object in the room... Which of course it's drawn to like a magnet.

 

[pax]

Baphomet ~

Get a handful or two of pennies. Set the pile of pennies next to you. Do your practice until the pile is gone, then pick up the scattered pennies off the floor.

pax

 

[Baphomet]

What you said:

Get a handful or two of pennies. Set the pile of pennies next to you. Do your practice until the pile is gone, then pick up the scattered pennies off the floor.

What I heard:

Get a handful or two of pennies. Set the pile of pennies next to you. Do your practice until the pile is gone, then get your kid to pick up the scattered pennies off the floor.

Genius!!!

 

[pax]

pax

You just decided to have kids so you could make us do all the work, right Mom? -- pax's oldest son when he was six years old.

 

[lionken07]

it doesn't work on my uspc...the top part of the slide is flat . You can finch like crazy and the coin would stay put

 

[boomer1911a1]

Where are you from, Tylor... and is English your first language?

 

[j1133s]

When I first tried something like this a year ago, I miss read it and stood the coin on its edge. Now talk about it being difficult

 

[Leitmotif]

I use a UspC as well... using the slide, it's a little harder than a blo... er, GLOCK.

You're missing the point though, lionken. Put the coin on top of the *front sight*, not on the slide. Much more difficult to balance, you see?

 

[johndoe1027]

Keeps coming off when the slide goes back... ooooooh, I see, *dry* fire...

hahahahaha

 

[ReadyontheRight]

OK. I think I found the answer. I've found that Loctite holds the dime on my barrel extremely well.

But my shooting is not improving. Should I glue on a dollar bill?

Couldn't resist.

Thank you for the great idea for trigger control.

 

[44AMP]

Ruger trick

I do this with my 7.5in Ruger Blackhawk. Balance the dime on the front sight, extend the gun to arms length (without dropping the dime), take the old time bullseye shooters stance, then dry fire. Dime should stay on the front sight until the hammer hits the frame. Have been doing this for over 20 years. Really impresses the kids.

 

[johndoe1027]

Another thread started by tylor reimer that probably has a much more comprehensive and better borne precurser. Anyone noticed that he hasn't reposted to this one either? I'm just trying to see if he even goes back and reads them...