Dry fire poll

[Bypass]

Dry fire practice. I had a friend who served with the LYNX commandos in the Slovak/Czech republic, that watched a guy in his unit practice dry firing loading and unloading mags chambering snap caps and dry firing pointing through a window at a guy working on the roof accross the way. He loaded a live round by accident. The guy minding his own business working on the roof did not die but it could have been worse.

"Dry firing could result in complacency in weapon handling."

Not to mention the damage done to the weapons. See post above. #50

 

[gshklvr30]

Well here's to my first post. I have no definative proof but for 22's just take a look at the barrel where the pin strikes the round, I've seen on various ones you can actually see where the pin hits the ridge(where the round should be). Now common sense is the firing pin was made to hit the back of a brass round or other soft metal(the cartridge rim) not the hardened steel chamber.

 

[07JKX]

i refuse to dry fire any weapons... and because of that I can never clean my glocks - clearly dry firing is the devil

 

[Jester7]

Dry fire practice. I had a friend who served with the LYNX commandos in the Slovak/Czech republic, that watched a guy in his unit practice dry firing loading and unloading mags chambering snap caps and dry firing pointing through a window at a guy working on the roof accross the way. He loaded a live round by accident. The guy minding his own business working on the roof did not die but it could have been worse.

"Dry firing could result in complacency in weapon handling."

Not to mention the damage done to the weapons. See post above. #50

Clearly, the rules of "always assume it's live" and "never point at something you wouldn't want to shoot" apply as well

 

[OnepageBook]

i refuse to dry fire any weapons... and because of that I can never clean my glocks - clearly dry firing is the devil

guess I'm going to hell then

 

[protective measures]

Depends on the weapon platform... some .22's, .380's, & other smaller platforms can be damaged w/o using snapcaps & some maybe even with them.
My two favorite systems (Glock & M-4) have endured thousands of dry-fires w/o experiencing any problems.
Every well known training academy that I've ever attended or spoken with the Director/lead Instructors use it as a tool to build fundamentals with.
I've never heard of many problems although that doesn't mean that it didn't happen some.
We do it a lot in our classes & have never had a problem so far. We use dummy rounds extensively to expose poor technique/ training "scars".
I had a class this weekend where one student was shooting his gun low & left (flinching or anticipating recoil...by far the most common error) & another who was jerking the trigger. Both errors were readily made apparent by the use of dummy rounds & dry-fire.
And both students were able to make corrections after unmistakeably seeing their errors firsthand.
It would have been more difficult to convince them of what the problem was w/o the use of dry-fire training.
Day-in & day-out the biggest problem we see w/ pistols is improper trigger control.
Dry-firing sure speeds up the corrective process in my experience.
To each their own though.

 

[a__l__a__n]

Almost 50 years ago my father told me not to dry fire the circa-1924 Nitro Special double barrel 16 gauge I carried when deer hunting. OTOH later on when I started carrying a Remington Woodsmaster .308 I would dry-fire it after unloading so it wouldn't be stored under tension. I don't know whether that was a good idea. But I still have both of those guns and they both still go bang when I pull the trigger.

 

[Rocket Man]

I ALWAYS prefer to err on the side of caution.

 

[ATLEMT]

I'm dry firing right now, but no .22s or rifles

 

[Moonpie]

I'm dry firing right now, but no .22s or rifles

Give your new marriage a few years and you will be dry firing more than ever ...