Dry firing No1 MkIII?

Put a fired round (with the primer intact) into the chamber, then do your dry-firing.

Sure, it was a standard trigger-pressing exercise in Basic Training but the parts now are scarce and expensive...... and the ones you have have had 70 to 110 years to crystallise and harden, thus weakening them. Impact can hurt them, so you take precautions.

Your rifle is supposed to have a distinct TWO-STAGE trigger pull. FIRST pressure is long and weak, couple of pounds, then it gets real solid. At this point, it should break CLEANLY with ZERO CREEP when you increase pressure to about 6 pounds. There should be NO gritty motion.

Have fun!

Hope this helps.
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No, you won't hurt your rifle. Snap away to your hearts content, it'll improve your shooting.



smellie said:
Put a fired round (with the primer intact) into the chamber, then do your dry-firing.
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Ummm, I've actually damaged 2 rifles like that, broke one firing pin, and bent one on a Win 94. I use proper snap caps in double guns, otherwise a completely empty chamber.
 
I have watched training videos from a former US special ops, and one of his main points was to practice your mounting of the gun, sighting and dry firing. He stated that there was no risk of harm to the gun and it made for a complete practice. I do it with all my milsurps, and I am very fussy when it comes to looking after them, so no worries !
 
I don't think you should have any issue dry firing any milsurp, but for some reason I still avoid doing it. Except on my SKS, but I don't care about breaking my SKS.
 
HIGHRPM said:
I have watched training videos from a former US special ops, and one of his main points was to practice your mounting of the gun, sighting and dry firing. He stated that there was no risk of harm to the gun and it made for a complete practice. I do it with all my milsurps, and I am very fussy when it comes to looking after them, so no worries !
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Ummmn true, but he's using a current production firearm with extremely available and easily replaced parts.

Use a snap cap
 
HIGHRPM said:
I have watched training videos from a former US special ops, and one of his main points was to practice your mounting of the gun, sighting and dry firing. He stated that there was no risk of harm to the gun and it made for a complete practice. I do it with all my milsurps, and I am very fussy when it comes to looking after them, so no worries !
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It will harm rimfires. Modern centrefires are fine. My concern was with nearly 100 year old milsurps.
 
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