do you do dry fire exercises?

[condition1]

do you perform dry fire exercises with your pistols? if so, with what pistols and what are your methods?

 

[maurice]

winter gets boring. No range time except to a match once a month or every two months.

 

[CZ85Combat]

Yes, I'm a cheap bastard... Can't afford to be on the range more than twice a week

 

[coelocanth]

Nope, too cheap to buy snap-caps and to paranoid about damaging my gun dry firing without snap caps...

 

[prproulx]

Nope, too cheap to buy snap-caps and to paranoid about damaging my gun dry firing without snap caps...

The improvement in your skills at the range will make snap caps seem cheap. Even though it has been established you can dry-fire most centre-fire handguns without a problem.

I simply learn how to change a broken firing pin and I'm good to go. (Even though I havn't broken a FP yet)

 

[Colin]

As often as I can.

 

[Camp Cook]

I do draw and dry fire practice many times each week...

Drives my wife nuts...

 

[Dragoon]

I follow the drills in Steve Anderson's book: REFINEMENT and REPETITION. It's excellent.....

 

[David K]

Dry Firing .....

.... Yes ! But that was before I "retired" ! It's cheap, effective and builds motor memory, 'used to practice "drawing and firing" in front of a full length mirror. Always felt like a fool, but that was nothing new, and I figured a small price to pay ! ..... David K. .....

 

[Brutus]

I like coelocanth, am too paranoid about damaging a firing pin...

 

[condition1]

good stuff guys

 

[Ceska]

I don't do as much as I used to, or should. I will do more now due to this thread though.

You guys should really stop worrying about your firing pins. If you truly believe you will hurt your center fire from dry firing order a new pin and get practicing!

 

[Will I Am]

Yes, I dry fire my service revolver to perform function tests, and to practice trigger pull exercises to improve muscle memory, it's convieniant to stay alive in worst case scenarios

 

[BBq_Woa!]

centrefire guns arent damaged by dry firing...
i dont understand why some people, and adults at that, still dont know this..

 

[dan belisle]

Nope, too cheap to buy snap-caps and to paranoid about damaging my gun dry firing without snap caps...

Make your own. A color coded reload with no powder and silicone in the primer pocket, presto, snap caps. - dan

 

[slicknick]

I got flipping through the manual for my GP-100 and there was a blurb about it not being damaged via dry-firing. Ever since then I've been doing a lot

 

[sunray]

Dry firing is a long proven training technique. It's great practice for trigger control and sight picture. It will NOT bother a centre fire firearm of any kind. And besides, how would Clint Eastwood and John Wayne survive in all those movies without my help?

 

[condition1]

hahaha, lately Ive been performing dry firing exercises with my glock 17 by placing a dime on the front sight and training the sights on the center of a cross on the wall at about 10 feet away. pull the trigger and try and keep the dime from falling off and keep the sights on the center of the cross. my record is 5 in a row....any one ever try this?

 

[dpo2o]

How do snap caps work?

 

[dinsdale]

Mine are made from Aluminum and shaped like standard FMJ and the "primer" is a soft plastic.