Dry Firing a Striker Pistol

[Iltasyuko]

Would firing on an empty case be equal to using a snap cap to avoid dry fire damage in a striker fire pistol?

 

[fire@will]

Not exactly - but it will limit the firing pin's free travel.

 

[Sinasta]

Just dry fire it.

 

[silverfoxdj]

Should not be any problem but I just don't do it on a regular basis...

 

[cooey43]

I have seen dry firing break several pins . Best to use a good quality snap cap.

 

[Still alive]

I’ve been dry firing my Glock for 30 years and the frequency of dry fire has increased. No snap caps and no problem so far.

 

[BattleRife]

Would firing on an empty case be equal to using a snap cap to avoid dry fire damage in a striker fire pistol?

With the exception of some rimfires and a very few other specific firearms, there is no such thing as "dry fire damage". I can't imagine any striker fired pistol having an issue.

 

[scourge18a]

You'll be fine.
Dry fire the crap out of it to practice

 

[CoreyMac]

I have seen dry firing break several pins . Best to use a good quality snap cap.

How exactly. The pin isn't hitting anything. If you could explain maybe we all could learn from your experience.

Corey

 

[Clay00019]

Dry firing damage is a myth.

 

[FreedomIsn'tFree]

I’ve been dry firing my Glock for 30 years and the frequency of dry fire has increased. No snap caps and no problem so far.

Some of my Glocks have been dry fired more then they have fired ammo and never an issue. When I first got into IPSC, I dry fired my gen3 17 thousands of times.

 

[dirtybarry]

Ruger doesn't recommend dry firing their SR series guns if the magazine disconnector is installed. If removed then no problem and my experiences support that.

 

[Ebola]

Dry firing center fire is fine. Just don't dry fire rimfire guns.

 

[9.3 Hunter]

dry fire away.........

 

[caramel]

Dry firing is a free pleasure

 

[City Boy]

Some striker fired pistols require dry firing for disassembly .... I can’t imagine it would be detrimental to those models.

 

[FoxAlpha]

I usually go through I’d guess about 100-200 reps of draw, dryfire, reload etc practice almost every night.
If you say 150 dryfires a night, 5 days a week seems conservative. 7800 reps per year of purely dry firing my glocks.

Yeah I’m comfortably saying dry fire away. Snap caps are for training, not dry firing.

 

[woodenpigeon]

I usually go through I’d guess about 100-200 reps of draw, dryfire, reload etc practice almost every night.
If you say 150 dryfires a night, 5 days a week seems conservative. 7800 reps per year of purely dry firing my glocks.

Yeah I’m comfortably saying dry fire away. Snap caps are for training, not dry firing.

39000

 

[trailskinpat]

Well you just don’t get better testimonials than those.

 

[BattleRife]

Dry firing damage is a myth.

I have a Lakefield Arms Mark II that shows a visible peen mark where the firing pin hit the barrel face when dry fired. The peen mark caused material to extrude into the chamber, and when I first got the rifle the fired case jammed in the chamber every time, fire-formed around the peened nub of steel.

I reamed the chamber with a pocketknife, and it has worked fine ever since, but I do not dry fire that rifle. So dry firing damage is real, in specific cases. But the reality of "sometimes a problem" has spread into a mantra of "never dry fire" in the minds of some people with a poor understanding of the issue.