Rangerrich99
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I'm not sure. I do have a 1911 that's about 32 years old, and by conservative estimate, I've dry-fired it more than 100,000 times. No issues yet. Maybe sometime in the next 30 years.
I'm one of the few who dry fires nothing. It serves me no purpose and I do not believe it is good for the gun, but that's just me.
Uncle Sam's "children" never used snap caps on any center fite pistol or rifle for training.
Nope. Probably I've fired the gun about 20,000 times. I guess I'm doing it backwards. I dry fire most of my guns a lot more than I actually fire rounds through them. You also have to take into account that for about 20 years I only had two handguns.sheesh... I think thats around eight times a day for 32 straight years. WOW 100,000 dry fires. How many rounds do you have through the gun 10-15 million?
HUH?? Aren't you the fellow that wrote:I also will sometimes use a snap cap just before shooting kind of a warm up. But I dont just dry fire all the time with a snap cap. I can see where it would be beneficial though.
Dry fireing is a pretty amature thing to do IMO. Its just bad practice.
Not only is it bad for the firearm its also an accident waiting to happen.
not sure what to tell you. Sounds like you hang around dumb people or dont pay attention.
its just a bonehead practice. Even if the gun can handle repeated dry fire its a bad habit.
magnut said:Benefit to dry fire with a snap cap.
Bonehead to dry fire endlessly and not use a snap cap.
magnut said:not sure what to tell you. Sounds like you hang around dumb people or dont pay attention.
its just a bonehead practice. Even if the gun can handle repeated dry fire its a bad habit.