Dry firing

roseau river rat said:
but if you have a snap cap in the chamber it simulates a live round and therefore no damage can be done.
am i right here or??
so again how do you buy it without trying it first?
and could you actualy tell if its been fired before if it had a snap cap in it??
dont think so.
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Once again it depends on the rifle and what the owner/seller wants.

My model 94 30/30 locked up tighter then Allan Rocks ####### at a gunshow becouse of an A-zoom snap cap. The soft aluminium case of the snap cap allowed it to slide past the cartridge stop and lodge under the feed ramp preventing anything from being loaded or unloaded.

This happened right in front of my gunsmith who was super nice about taking the time to take my rifle apart right there to clear out the snap cap.

He said he has delt with a lot of jams from snap caps and directed me to dump the two I had in his garbage can where they belong.

When I got home I made up two dummy rounds from spent 30/30 brass and drilled and smoothed two holes in the sides for easy identification...I used some silicone calking for the primer area, real bullets, no powder or primer.

Long story short, ask first before you start hauling off on the action of a rifle you are looking at...or you might find yourself in a you break it and you buy it situation.
 
Calum said:
When I got home I made up two dummy rounds from spent 30/30 brass and drilled and smoothed two holes in the sides for easy identification...I used some silicone calking for the primer area, real bullets, no powder or primer.

Long story short, ask first before you start hauling off on the action of a rifle you are looking at...or you might find yourself in a you break it and you buy it situation.
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exactly, though i use hot glue, it deforms very little, and if it gets bad enough, simply heat it back up and cut it flush.
 
c-fbmi said:
Except to find out how good or bad the trigger pull is, a relatively important feature to a rifle.
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Exactly. I've read comments by serious target shooters suggesting regular and serious try firing is part of a good shooting regiment.

For people who take out a different rifle every time they go hunting (or almost), I think it's crucial as well.
 
In over 40 years of gunsmithing I have seen very few guns damaged by dry firing... usually older 22 rim fires and cheap shotguns... it certainly doesn't bother me.
 
ALLS London said:
I've never bought a gun from a gunshop (one was mail order, one was EE, two were inherited), but are you not handling a 'demo model' and buying a 'new in box' from stock?
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I'm pretty sure you're right. Unless its on consignment or the last one or something.

I don't know for sure though, I've worked in retail but not firearms retail.
 
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