I don't dry fire as a practice, most likely wont hurt anything but there's always that chance. Except to disassemble my Beretta Nepal, it has to be dry fired to remove the firing pin to clean it.
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Dry fire poll
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Ran into this same thing just the other day at a shop..eased the hammer down on a 1911 and dude was telling me to go ahead and dry fire it because it'll wear the sear faster if you don't or something..I was curious myself
I doubt it, save with the rim fire cartridges. "Dry firing is bad for guns" is a hold over from days gone by...similar to "Pluto is a planet."
dry fire everything but my 22's and my cz-75b
Dry firing for some guns is not recommended (such as my old Star) but generally, if you aren't dry firing, I hope you don't carry for defense because you gotta practice man!
I do dry fire, and I have snap caps in most everything, but also try to avoid dry firing my Older Weapons.
Dry firing doesn't bother me at all. Letting a slide slam home (especially a 1911) on an empty chamber galls my ass though.
Dry fire mine all you want, but you'll not handle one of mine again if you let it slam empty.
Dry fire mine all you want, but you'll not handle one of mine again if you let it slam empty.
I don't play with other guys guns....
Back in 91, I was at the range in El Paso Texas, you know the one the Army made off post for soldiers/retirees. I was admiring a guys Python so he let me try it. Trigger was so light I sent one over the berm. I didn't even came close to the trigger. Just cocked it and it went. He was sure proud of that trigger.
More recently, I think it was 2002, I was at a match and a guy was braggiing about the trigger job he did on his Glock. He showed me how he had rounded off the edge of his cruciform (I think that's the name of the part, I forget and I don't know where my armorers manual is) to get a lighter trigger. No way I was shooting that one.
Buying used guns scares me, so if the first thing I do is clear it, don't be offended.
I won't slam your slide, but I won't ride mine forwards either.
Back in 91, I was at the range in El Paso Texas, you know the one the Army made off post for soldiers/retirees. I was admiring a guys Python so he let me try it. Trigger was so light I sent one over the berm. I didn't even came close to the trigger. Just cocked it and it went. He was sure proud of that trigger.
More recently, I think it was 2002, I was at a match and a guy was braggiing about the trigger job he did on his Glock. He showed me how he had rounded off the edge of his cruciform (I think that's the name of the part, I forget and I don't know where my armorers manual is) to get a lighter trigger. No way I was shooting that one.
Buying used guns scares me, so if the first thing I do is clear it, don't be offended.
I won't slam your slide, but I won't ride mine forwards either.
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CZ-52
firing pins, and the nose can break off after just a few rounds of dry firing.
The striker retainer pin broke on my XDM 45. I had a gunsmith ... It seems the rear
end of the striker slams back against the pin in dry fire
Italian shotguns that ONE (1) dry fire will result in
a broken firing pin.
I have personally broken one
firing pin positioning pin from dry practice. In the Sig armorer's
Dry Firing Lock and Load: Live Fire Exercises. ... Once upon a time I
broke the firing pin in a Marlin 29A
So I was dry firing my p380 today, and instead of hearing that ... but same result,
and I could see that the firing pin was not coming out
As a result, I suspect most revolvers are dry fired with greater ... The problems
involve broken firing pins
My firing pin broke within the first 300 rounds or so, way premature. ... I have
never understood the reasons of dry firing a firearm. .... etc. etc. etc., and
the result is... a broken firing pin at the tip
broken firing pin Gunsmithing & Gun Care. ... No dry firing with the
gun
I about crapped when I broke the pin on a C96
Mauser dry firing
The firing pin is broken and the front portion of the firing pin is missing. I have had
this ... Dry firing
Dry firing could result in complacency in weapon handling
broken firing pins and extractors on
1911's, .... He and a friend "dry fired" it repeatedly, swaging a portion of the metal
USP40 - Broken firing pin question
While dry firing, my firing pin broke in half - literally!
Early on, my mentors introduced me to "dry-firing" as a means to ... I was taught a
shooter could greatly improve their scores by dry-firing on a regular schedule. ...
2) I have broken two firing pins on new S&Ws (
The other day I was dry firing at home and the lever got a little stuck but I was
able to. ... Results 1 to 10 of 15 ... So, I think my firing pin broke
In just about every case of a broken firing pin, the gunsmith will ask, "Dry fire it
much?" And the answer will always be, "Once in awhile
firing pins, and the nose can break off after just a few rounds of dry firing.
The striker retainer pin broke on my XDM 45. I had a gunsmith ... It seems the rear
end of the striker slams back against the pin in dry fire
Italian shotguns that ONE (1) dry fire will result in
a broken firing pin.
I have personally broken one
firing pin positioning pin from dry practice. In the Sig armorer's
Dry Firing Lock and Load: Live Fire Exercises. ... Once upon a time I
broke the firing pin in a Marlin 29A
So I was dry firing my p380 today, and instead of hearing that ... but same result,
and I could see that the firing pin was not coming out
As a result, I suspect most revolvers are dry fired with greater ... The problems
involve broken firing pins
My firing pin broke within the first 300 rounds or so, way premature. ... I have
never understood the reasons of dry firing a firearm. .... etc. etc. etc., and
the result is... a broken firing pin at the tip
broken firing pin Gunsmithing & Gun Care. ... No dry firing with the
gun
I about crapped when I broke the pin on a C96
Mauser dry firing
The firing pin is broken and the front portion of the firing pin is missing. I have had
this ... Dry firing
Dry firing could result in complacency in weapon handling
broken firing pins and extractors on
1911's, .... He and a friend "dry fired" it repeatedly, swaging a portion of the metal
USP40 - Broken firing pin question
While dry firing, my firing pin broke in half - literally!
Early on, my mentors introduced me to "dry-firing" as a means to ... I was taught a
shooter could greatly improve their scores by dry-firing on a regular schedule. ...
2) I have broken two firing pins on new S&Ws (
The other day I was dry firing at home and the lever got a little stuck but I was
able to. ... Results 1 to 10 of 15 ... So, I think my firing pin broke
In just about every case of a broken firing pin, the gunsmith will ask, "Dry fire it
much?" And the answer will always be, "Once in awhile
