22LR Snap Caps

[MtGoat]

What are people using for snap caps for the mini's?

I am thinking that the timing issue will resolve itself with use.
As I can't get out for ANOTHER week maybe snag a set of snap caps or what ever and dry fire (eek) with the snap caps in place to smooooth the inner workings out.

With mine I can get it to run dry fine (letting the hammer down and NOT dry firing it) it isn't until I rotate the cylinder wrong or basically doink up the normal works that things lock-up.

Pat

[OLD and GRUMPY]

Empty brass but you need to rotate them.   BUT this gives you lots of practice loading and unloading fast.  Kill two birds   ?

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Small yellow  drywall anchors. Some don't like them saying that they cut or are TOO soft. Mine don't. My  "pin" may just be too SHORT AND DULL .   My  LGS/Gun smith keeps them in the show case.   Try them and look. 

[gtgoldsmith]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H5WVCS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Read the reviews!! 

[gtgoldsmith]

be sure and expand the reviews - FUNNY

[OLD and GRUMPY]

FUNNY!   

They will feed in a 10-22 mag.

When teaching I put one random one in the stack to set up  drills for clearing FTF while keeping your eye and sights on the threat.

Just check that your pin is not cutting.

[Lemon]

Yellow dry wall areas. Cover end with a black sharpie so you can see hammer mark. Then just stick tip of your knife into anchor and turn it slightly. Keep doing that and you can get several trigger pulls which each anchor.

[bill_deshivs]

Each time your firing pin hits the plastic anchor, it simply penetrates the plastic. This does absolutely nothing to protect your firing pin.
Use fired cases and rotate them.

[Lemon]

Here is a picture of the anchors I use and it shows after firing one time. The red arrow shows the hammer mark. I marked the outer rim with a black sharpie so the yellow indention from the hammer strike shows up better. The side view picture shows the hammer does not penetrate the plastic rim on the anchors I use so no metal from the hammer touches the cylinder. There was a lot of good reviews on these particular anchors from people using them to dry fire 22LR. It gives the same effect as using a using a spent shell casing. I have used both. With either choice I recommend rotating the anchor or casing if you use it for multiple dry firing. 

[Bigbird48]

in our mini's these work very well and protect the hammer, cylinder and the spring from damage

Each time your firing pin hits the plastic anchor, it simply penetrates the plastic. This does absolutely nothing to protect your firing pin.
Use fired cases and rotate them.

[Lemon]

The link gtgoldsmith provided is the exact same ones I use and that is in the picture I posted above. I forgot to mention that.

[JRobyn]

I use RED ones from Harbor Freight in my mag cylinders.  The rim part is a VERY snug fit.  They need to be mashed down firmly or the cylinder won't turn.  The snug fit seems to make them cushion the hammer well, kinda like they "self heal".  I'll dry fire on them without rotating them maybe 5-10 times.  No ill effects so far.