Why people complain they cannot dryfire .22LR?
- Thread starter bigrevolver
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As I posted earlier, you can hit them 10 times +/- a few if you index the snap cap each time. These red plastic Tipton ones feed from a magazine with no problems too.
I assume you slip a bit of thin plastic in front of the boltface and pull the trigger. Should work on some guns.
Compression does NOT weaken a spring, cycling it does. As for dry fire, its a non issue even with rimfire. If you think the firing pin is going to peen your breach face the your firearm is a piece of sh*t. I've never not dry fired the life out of all my rimfire guns and never had an issue.
TDC
turbo_bird
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There are still a few rimfires made that are not safe to dry fire. I bought a little Henry singleshot for my kids, and the firing pin will hit the edge of the chamber on that one. I just use a spent case if someone wants to dryfire it.
Kristian
Kristian
How hard do you think the firing pin is hitting the rim of the case? And how much of an indent do you think its leaving? Sorry, no firing pin should be causing any damage to the chamber on a quality built firearm.
TDC
Turbo_bird; I believe what TDC is telling us is that our guns are junk...wait a while, he will inevitably go into how he is far superior in pistol proficiency. 
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That's what I use box of 100 is about $5.00
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- On a resonably direct route in NS
The metal ones (blue A-Zoom linked in the first post) are ‘action proving’ dummy rounds, which means you put them in your lever gun and crank the lever, or your bolt gun and cycle the bolt, or your pump gun and pump it, to show that the feeding system, magazine, extractor, and so on all work. Problem is, the rim is used for extraction, as well as being struck to ignite the priming compound. Pulling the trigger on them leaves permanent marks, and too many of these can chew up the rim and make them less functional for their intended purpose.
Apart from using spent casings, bits of plastic, and yes the small drywall anchors, they do make softer polymer snap caps for dry firing (usually found in clear red). The firing pin also makes permanent indents on the rim, but the material flows back a little, and as you insert them again the hits distribute randomly around the circumference. Generally they're good for a dozen shots or so. They're not as rigid and durable as the metal ones, which makes them a little less suited to cycling than the above type. Tipton come about ten to a package, which makes them like a buck apiece for disposable junk. I found a different brand in a local gun shop, they're only as long as .22 Shorts, but there's like fifty of the little red suckers in a pack for maybe six bucks.
Apart from using spent casings, bits of plastic, and yes the small drywall anchors, they do make softer polymer snap caps for dry firing (usually found in clear red). The firing pin also makes permanent indents on the rim, but the material flows back a little, and as you insert them again the hits distribute randomly around the circumference. Generally they're good for a dozen shots or so. They're not as rigid and durable as the metal ones, which makes them a little less suited to cycling than the above type. Tipton come about ten to a package, which makes them like a buck apiece for disposable junk. I found a different brand in a local gun shop, they're only as long as .22 Shorts, but there's like fifty of the little red suckers in a pack for maybe six bucks.
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- West Quebec
Good post thanks
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- On a resonably direct route in NS
There are some currently built Anschütz target actions, just for example, that you should not dry fire without a dummy or spent case in the chamber. Unless you take them down and insert a fake dry fire firing pin. We're talking like $4.000+ Olympic target rifles.
(My Izhmash Biathlon, on the other hand, dis-connects the firing pin when a magazine is not inserted.)
I'm not overly versed with high end biathlon rifles, but I still call BS. Any gun that can't be dry fired is junk and is far too finicky to be practical.
TDC
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- West Quebec
Exactly
IN YOUR OPINION ONLY!
There's lots of excellent quality rimfire guns which cannot be dry fired. Sorry if the ones mentioned so far along with my BSA Martini don't meet your high expectations.
At one time it was simply a given that rimfire guns should not be dry fired for the reasons given already. Then a few makers managed to produce some rimfires with limited firing pin travel. But that's no more than a nice add on to protect us from ourselves.
