10/22 - Store cocked or not?

[ninepointer]

THANKS to all those who offered sincere & constructive anwers. I thought the 10/22 was dry-fire safe. Now I know for sure! Cheers!

 

[marshall_law]

i always pull back the bolt a little bit then dry fire. this way the pin doesent hit anything.

 

[T&G]

On all guns, always, ALWAYS, relieve the springs for storage, otherwise they take a "set".

Dr Jim

 

[neotekz]

store all my guns decocked. dry firing a 10/22 is fine. everyone dry fires their 10/22 on empty mag. if you are still worried buy or make some dummy rounds to decock the gun

 

[tjhaile]

On all guns, always, ALWAYS, relieve the springs for storage, otherwise they take a "set".

Dr Jim

Springs are worn out by cyclic loads (i.e. being repeatedly compressed and released), not by remaining in a compressed state.

Almost any sort of gun spring is always under load to some extent when it is installed in the gun, regardless of its state.

 

[marshall_law]

Springs are worn out by cyclic loads (i.e. being repeatedly compressed and released), not by remaining in a compressed state.

Almost any sort of gun spring is always under load to some extent when it is installed in the gun, regardless of its state.

this is true.

but......i can't seem to overcome the splinter in my mind of a tensioned spring being stored that way for too long.

 

[T&G]

Springs are worn out by cyclic loads (i.e. being repeatedly compressed and released), not by remaining in a compressed state.

Almost any sort of gun spring is always under load to some extent when it is installed in the gun, regardless of its state.

"Wearing out" a spring is vastly different from "taking a set". These are two distinct things. E.g. a magazine spring that is held under full load tension for 4 or 5 years develops a set and will likely not feed the last rounds in the mag, hence the rule about relieving the stress by rotating "ready" mags at least once a year. And it can happen to firing pin springs too.

Dr Jim

 

[tjhaile]

Properly designed springs don't take a set. If a spring is compressed such that it is stressed below the metal's yield strength, it will return to its original shape when the load is released. In general, fatigue is the mode of failure for parts that are repeatedly loaded and unloaded within the elastic limit. This is basic metallurgy.

If springs are taking a set from remaining compressed, this is a quality problem, not a storage problem.