'dry firing' on a spent case
- Thread starter jon1985
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As long as you make sure that you do not accidentally insert a loaded cartridge you will see normal wear and tear.
As you're just checking the trigger, it would be safer all around, to just use ribbed plastic anchors from any hardware store, #4-6 x 7/8" should work fine.
As you're just checking the trigger, it would be safer all around, to just use ribbed plastic anchors from any hardware store, #4-6 x 7/8" should work fine.
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I assume it's .22LR? That's what I do for dry fire practice with .22. Just be sure it is really a fired round. i also rotate the casing after several shots so the firing pin doesn't hit the same spot. May be a non-issue but just me!
I do the same with centerfires. Too cheap to buy snap caps! Use common sense though. Remove all casings after practice.
I do the same with centerfires. Too cheap to buy snap caps! Use common sense though. Remove all casings after practice.
Be certain to spin the spent casing a bit each time. Striking the same area of the rim repeatedly will be the same as a dryfire.
x2 on plastic drywall anchors being cheap n' available for handy testing.
x2 on plastic drywall anchors being cheap n' available for handy testing.
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- Barrie, Ontario
I find spent brass works better than the plastic snap caps. the plastic ones don't seem to last.
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.22lr snap caps don't exist... There are polymer ones that last the longest, but the aluminum ones cannot be used for dry fire. All modern rimfires can be dry fired. I wouldn't bother worrying about it. I use polymer ones for teaching the kiddies how to do things and be safe, but they get chewed up eventually. For practice on my cz455 I just dry fire it.
I agree that damaged chambers are mostly a thing of the past but I look at extended dry fire sessions without a buffer of some sort as being similar to slamming a door.
Unnecessary stress to the firing pin when it stops itself in the absence of a buffer.
--- Not quite so--Tipton makes 22 "Snap Caps" --I have a pkg of 10 for my way to many rimfires.---Bent Barrel
These may be marketed as snap caps but they do not work like a centrefire snap cap. The plastic breaks fairly quickly after a few strikes. The appropriate size wall anchors work better and are cheaper.
Spent cases are used by many target shooters for dryfire practice to condition trigger response. Be wary of the build up of priming grit in the barrel after extended dryfire sessions. A dry patch clears it before a live session.
be careful where the spent casings came from, and by that I mean which rifle/pistol it was shot from. I have found that the ones I shot out of my revolvers don't chamber well into my rifle, the casings were slightly expanded in the revolvers and so the tight becomes tighter and often get stuck in the chamber and cannot be extracted by the rifle at all. In fact that happened to me last week and had to go out and buy a cleaning rod the next day just to get the dry fired casing out(I tried prying it out and it didn't work at all, it was tight tight). this is something you can usually tell when closing the bolt as it'll suddenly be tight, but it can be avoided by just reusing the casings that came from the firearm that you're dry firing
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- West Quebec
+1 they are cheap and effective you can cut a notch out of them where the extractor is and they will stay put for multipal hits.
i have the same ones. just load 10 of them into the standard ruger mag and practice away. when you are done load it up again. you will almost certainly have the firing pin hit a different spot so there wont be issues there. eventually you will have to buy more but they are cheap and fairly easy to get. amazon has them.
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here you go. 25 of them for $10 and free shipping on orders over $25.
www(dot)amazon(dot)ca/dp/B0048KGUY8
The one that I have are a soft metal, and they are more durable.
