Dry Firing Centerfire Rifles -- Good or Bad?

[Badger Arms]

I would like to hear from ANYONE who can relate a first-hand experience where dry-firing a centerfire rifle has caused damage to the gun... any damage.

Please don't relate stories about rimfires as this is another subject entirely.

For the record, it is my opinion that dry firing centerfire rifles is perfectly fine and no damage will result.

 

[700PSS Shooter]

I have had the small head that holds the striker onto the cocking piece break on an M1903 Springfield. It was a late 1917 produced gun, with double heat treat, but pre-nickel steel receiver. I just put in a new (appropriate vintage) cocking piece. That however is not a decent example due to the design. I have dry fired an M700 Remington thousands of times with no ill effects, except to smooth the trigger pull.