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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: bigyimmy on September 06, 2005, 04:48:54 AM

Title: Is it 'ok' to dry fire semi-auto's?
Post by: bigyimmy on September 06, 2005, 04:48:54 AM

I have always thought it was not a good practice without snap caps, but I took a class locally and the instructor stated it was fine to do.  I tried researching this on the web and found very little.  What I did find said it was acceptable except for .22 rim fire cartridges.  Any comments?

Title: Re: Is it 'ok' to dry fire semi-auto's?
Post by: Richard S on September 06, 2005, 09:27:51 AM

It probably does no harm to dry fire most semi-automatic handguns.  However, I personally always use a snap cap.

Title: Re: Is it 'ok' to dry fire semi-auto's?
Post by: Aglifter on September 06, 2005, 11:07:43 AM

My gunsmith told me it's not a problem to do it occasionally -- this may have been referring to my Kimber that he holding at the time, but I should used snap caps if I wanted to do it frequently -- such as when I was working on my trigger technique.

Brad

Title: Re: Is it 'ok' to dry fire semi-auto's?
Post by: bigyimmy on September 07, 2005, 04:21:08 AM

Ok, I ordered some snap caps.  Thank you all for the replies.