Dry firing center fire rifle

[Dogleg]

The way our governments talk about spending billions of our dollar, we tend to forget how big a billion is!
How many billion times have you recycled your action? If you recycled it once a second, it would take 277,000 hours to get it to a billion!
At the rate of once a second for ten hours a day, you could get to a billion recycles in 923 months.
This is the way we should think of a billion, when it refers to a billion dollars wasted on the gun registry!!

OK a billion is a stretch, but I wasn't trying to to be literal. Perhaps I should have said that I have seldom walked past my firearms without picking up and dry firing a few of them. I have been doing this for 3 decades with 100 or so guns and with one exception never broke anything. That's all.

If I was to be completely literal I have cycled actions many times but "Recycled" them somewhat less. Those actions that got new barrels after their first life was expired could be said to be recycled. Those that I give my boy could be "Reused".

 

[bogie]

I have asked directly of Ruger and CZ and both say "go for it". Ruger put it more succinctly. They said" It is unlikely that dry firing any of our current models will be damaged by any amount of dry firing". They were even cool with the 1022. I do not do it frequently but there are times when it is necessary and I dont sweat it. My $0.02

 

[tangospike99]

dry fire myths umm how many times might have I dry fired my C1 my and latter the C7 lots. Just another old myth my 2 cents

 

[303carbine]

I don't waste time on dry firing any rifles,I prefer to fire at targets and game.