Dry Firing

[Doc Holliday]

Hi all,
Looking at an old thread on dry firing NAA revolvers. Overthinking me thinks. Manual says to just remove the cylinder and dry fire all you want.
Cheers

[OV-1D]

  My opinion and I have many is dry firing any weapon is bad for the gun , large or small , and has no practical purpose . Until they make a gun frame and parts that doesn't ding when you hit it with a hammer its better , and the gun will appreciate it , not to give in to the urge . There are too many reasons not to dry fire anything .     

[MtGoat]

  My opinion and I have many is dry firing any weapon is bad for the gun , large or small , and has no practical purpose . Until they make a gun frame and parts that doesn't ding when you hit it with a hammer its better , and the gun will appreciate it , not to give in to the urge . There are too many reasons not to dry fire anything .   

I dry fire my 2011 fairly regularly and others I know dry fire theirs at least 500 to 1000 times a night when getting ready for a match.
So far there have been no ill effects.
That said I try to not dry fire a revolver or a rimfire anything.

Pat

[Bigbird48]

Like Mrgoat mention he drys fires to get ready for a match. The practical  purpose of dry firing is to get your breathing, squeezing and sight picture all the way its suppose to be. Deep breaths deep breaths come down on the target get your sight picture hold the the breath and squeeze off a round.  You do this hundreds of times dry firing.getting ready for match competition. So there is a practical purpose for dry firing a Rifle and it should work for hand guns also. Altho I never shot pistols in Comp. 

  My opinion and I have many is dry firing any weapon is bad for the gun , large or small , and has no practical purpose . Until they make a gun frame and parts that doesn't ding when you hit it with a hammer its better , and the gun will appreciate it , not to give in to the urge . There are too many reasons not to dry fire anything .   

[Fharing]

  I agree dry firing helps with trigger control and technique.   When we practiced dry firing for competition it was to train us in proper grip, draw, trigger control and sight picture. Rarely did breathing relate to combat shooting. And yes I love the 2011 I had a STI I shot for 5 years.

[Bigbird48]

Breathing very important in competition shooting

  I agree dry firing helps with trigger control and technique.   When we practiced dry firing for competition it was to train us in proper grip, draw, trigger control and sight picture. Rarely did breathing relate to combat shooting. And yes I love the 2011 I had a STI I shot for 5 years.

[EvilWayz]

  My opinion and I have many is dry firing any weapon is bad for the gun , large or small , and has no practical purpose . Until they make a gun frame and parts that doesn't ding when you hit it with a hammer its better , and the gun will appreciate it , not to give in to the urge . There are too many reasons not to dry fire anything .   

Somewhere, my PMI from boot camp suddenly became violently ill. 

[blue_heron]

Never dry any rimfire without snap caps, such as made by Tipton. There are other manufacturers. Below is a link.

https://www.amazon.com/Tipton-Snap-Caps-22-Per/dp/B0048KFHI8

[E-Stop]

Dry firing on spent 22 brass is the way to go.  Just rotate to a spot that hasn't been struck yet, and you're good.

[jennflip]

to dry fire using LR cylinder use the yellow plastic wall anchor thingies----works great---I popped one of the springs dry firing without the cylinder in the pistol-----I use snap caps in my Springfield 9mm EMP as I understand dry firing is ultimately bad for the firing pin----

[Canoeal]

Stevo ,
Yep that is what I do, use spent shells to do any dry fire practice...Can't find anything wrong with that...Use it in the BW and the CATP all the time and my targets at the range keep getting better.

[grayelky]

Dry firing also polishes the hammer/trigger interaction, as well as all the other moving parts, which lets them work together more smoothly.

[adp3]

The problem with spent shells, unless you change them out frequently, is that the brass compresses and you have less and less of a cushion.  The yellow plastic screw anchors work great and are resilient.  They only cost a few cents each.  They even have enough of a rim that they'll extract and eject from .22 autos and bolt guns. 

Best Regards,
ADP3

[Canoeal]

I use them for practice and when done they go into the brass recycling.