Dime Drill

The part that LAV did not elaborate on in this video is that when you go back to live fire you need to still "envision" that dime or empty case on the front sight. "See the dime" on the front sight each and every shot. This really brings trigger control to a new level. IMHO
 
I ran this drill with my son today.
 
I have seen two versions of this. The one above and another video by Rob Leatham. In Leatham's video he balances a cartridge on the slide instead of the front sight. I tried his version on my sig p226 and even going da the cartridge stayed on the slide. I then placed it on the front sight and was able to pull the trigger in DA mode without the cartridge falling off.

It is a lot harder to do on my glock G34 since I have a narrow dawson front sight installed.
 
It's like Larry said, if you know the gun is empty it's pretty easy.

We ran this in a buddy drill where one buddy is responsible for loading the gun, and then hands it to the shooter, and the gun may be loaded, or empty, shooter doesn't know. If the gun is loaded one time (unknown to the shooter) and then you run the drill on empty (unknown to the shooter), you can see a flinch or jerk develop where there wasn't one when running the drill when the shooter knows the gun is empty. We saw this yesterday.

@dmarbell
 
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I can do the dime drill at home with an empty gun and never drop the dime. I guess I just need for dry fire trigger time?
 
I find this drill is great when you do it during live fire. I also think it is most telling and helpful when you do it from the ready with your finger outside the trigger guard on a timer. Load the gun have someone set the case on the sight or slide and then set a random timer. When you hear the timer fire the round as fast as you can. Most decent shooters can slow pull just about any gun and not have the dime or empty case fall but if you put the element of time and surprise into the mix the drill becomes much harder.

If you can snatch that trigger, put the round into a grapefruit sized group and not drop the dime I take my hat off to you. :) For me that is the evolution of this drill and much more telling then the guy with the revolver.
 
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