Dry firing the Glocks
- Thread starter Leo Daher
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) without snap caps? Have you ever heard of firing pin breakage because of that practice?Glenn E. Meyer
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Leo - where do live? In the USA,
non law enforcement folks can't have
the 25. It's too dangerous - HA HA.
We can only have the exact same size
guns in 9mm, 40 SW, 357 Sig.
To answer your question - I've had
three Glocks and dry fired them with
no ill effects.
non law enforcement folks can't have
the 25. It's too dangerous - HA HA.
We can only have the exact same size
guns in 9mm, 40 SW, 357 Sig.
To answer your question - I've had
three Glocks and dry fired them with
no ill effects.
Glenn,
I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - but not for long, I hope. I'm already consulting with a U.S. lawyer (a firearms aficionado who's been to Gunsite) so that my wife and I can move to the "land of the free", where I was once privileged to reside for some 5 years.
Right now, the Brazilian Socialist government is trying hard to ban all private ownership of guns. This in a country where criminals have military weapons, from full auto rifles to rocket launchers!
Though a few of us are fighting this tyrannical legislation, most people couldn't care less. This is no place for anyone who believes in self-determination and individual rights...
Sorry about the rant.
Regards,
Leo Daher
PS: Thanks for the answers!
I'm in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - but not for long, I hope. I'm already consulting with a U.S. lawyer (a firearms aficionado who's been to Gunsite) so that my wife and I can move to the "land of the free", where I was once privileged to reside for some 5 years.
Right now, the Brazilian Socialist government is trying hard to ban all private ownership of guns. This in a country where criminals have military weapons, from full auto rifles to rocket launchers!
Though a few of us are fighting this tyrannical legislation, most people couldn't care less. This is no place for anyone who believes in self-determination and individual rights...
Sorry about the rant.
Regards,
Leo Daher
PS: Thanks for the answers!
Yeah, I know what you mean... That Klinton character is a real scumbag. Problem is, our pathetic little president sees him and UK's Tony Bleargh as models to emulate.
If there's something in this world worth saving, it's the U.S. Bill of Rights - I'm affraid some folks take it for granted cause they don't know how bad it gets in other countries. Those of us who value freedom, of course, must go on fighting for what's right.
Well, I feel pretty safer with my dry firing - thanks, guys!
Regards,
Leo Daher
If there's something in this world worth saving, it's the U.S. Bill of Rights - I'm affraid some folks take it for granted cause they don't know how bad it gets in other countries. Those of us who value freedom, of course, must go on fighting for what's right.
Well, I feel pretty safer with my dry firing - thanks, guys!
Regards,
Leo Daher
Sweet, you actually have a 25? Hey, could you post some pictures of it? I have never actually seen one yet.
Oh, yeah, too much dry-firing can cause spring damage/firing pin damage. Your best bet is to get some of those snap-caps for your GLOCK. They are usually brightly colored plastic "bullets" that contain a spring that absorbs the shock as the firing pin hits the fake primer. They are cheap and effective, I use them all the time.
Oh, yeah, too much dry-firing can cause spring damage/firing pin damage. Your best bet is to get some of those snap-caps for your GLOCK. They are usually brightly colored plastic "bullets" that contain a spring that absorbs the shock as the firing pin hits the fake primer. They are cheap and effective, I use them all the time.
Hi, Pete.
Right now, I have no digital camera and/or scanner available... Sorry (not that I'd know how to use them anyway). I'm pretty sure we can find a picture of it on-line somewhere, though.
Externally, M-25 looks a lot like M-19 and M-23, though you CAN tell them appart just by looking at them (the chamber area is slightly shorter). I have a magazine - one of those special Glock issues - that has some pictures of both M-25 and M-28 (same size as 26 and 27). I believe the latter is available to LEO in the U.S., though I fail to see the point. I'll check that magazine when I get home.
Come to think of it, I remember seeing a picture of a M-25 from Australia which had an external safety installed (pretty much like a 1911). If I could only remember where... Maybe at firearmstactical.com?
About the snap caps: when I was fortunate enough to live in the U.S., I used to have them in both .38 and 9mmP... You know, the red and transparent kind, with a spring inside. Don't recall seeing them in .380, though.
OTOH, I could improvise one with an empty shell and some silicone glue... Question is, is it really necessary?
Decisions, decisions...
Regards,
Leo Daher
Right now, I have no digital camera and/or scanner available... Sorry (not that I'd know how to use them anyway
). I'm pretty sure we can find a picture of it on-line somewhere, though.Externally, M-25 looks a lot like M-19 and M-23, though you CAN tell them appart just by looking at them (the chamber area is slightly shorter). I have a magazine - one of those special Glock issues - that has some pictures of both M-25 and M-28 (same size as 26 and 27). I believe the latter is available to LEO in the U.S., though I fail to see the point. I'll check that magazine when I get home.
Come to think of it, I remember seeing a picture of a M-25 from Australia which had an external safety installed (pretty much like a 1911). If I could only remember where... Maybe at firearmstactical.com?
About the snap caps: when I was fortunate enough to live in the U.S., I used to have them in both .38 and 9mmP... You know, the red and transparent kind, with a spring inside. Don't recall seeing them in .380, though.
OTOH, I could improvise one with an empty shell and some silicone glue... Question is, is it really necessary?
Decisions, decisions...
Regards,
Leo Daher
WalterGAII
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Hate to disagree with another poster, but Glocks are designed to be dryfired. Dryfiring, without snapcaps is used by most Glock handgun instructors as a normal part of the course. Glocks have to be dryfired to be disassembled.
You can dryfire your Glock eleventy-zillion times and you won't hurt any springs??? or the striker.
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Shoot to kill; they'll stop when they're dead!
You can dryfire your Glock eleventy-zillion times and you won't hurt any springs??? or the striker.
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Shoot to kill; they'll stop when they're dead!
Coinneach, thanks! Your kind words mean a lot to me!
Right now, going back to the U.S. is my main goal in life, together with the well-being of my wife (who, BTW, is very much pro-RKBA).
One of the first things I did when I moved to Florida in '88 was becoming a member of the NRA; later, I got certified as a Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun and Personal Protection instructor. I also contributed to the ILA on a regular basis.
In '91, I went to LFI in Concord, NH, and did LFI I, II and III in about three weeks. There, I was honored to meet some of the nicest people ever.
The same applies to you guys here at The Firing Line. Law-abbiding gun owners RULE!
Regards,
Leo Daher
Right now, going back to the U.S. is my main goal in life, together with the well-being of my wife (who, BTW, is very much pro-RKBA
).One of the first things I did when I moved to Florida in '88 was becoming a member of the NRA; later, I got certified as a Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun and Personal Protection instructor. I also contributed to the ILA on a regular basis.
In '91, I went to LFI in Concord, NH, and did LFI I, II and III in about three weeks. There, I was honored to meet some of the nicest people ever.
The same applies to you guys here at The Firing Line. Law-abbiding gun owners RULE!
Regards,
Leo Daher
Oh, BTW: the magazine I referred to in a previous post is "Glock Autopistols '98", by Harris Publications. Pictures of both 25 and 28, together with technical specs, can be found at pgs. 93 and 94, respectively.
Like I said, 28 can be purchased by law enforcement agencies only in the U.S., while 25 is not available for the American market. Why would a free American want one of those, of course, is beyond me, unless we're talking about serious recoil-shy people here (I used to have a 19 back in the good ol' days, and recoil seemed negligible to me, but who knows...).
Regards,
Leo Daher
Like I said, 28 can be purchased by law enforcement agencies only in the U.S., while 25 is not available for the American market. Why would a free American want one of those, of course, is beyond me, unless we're talking about serious recoil-shy people here (I used to have a 19 back in the good ol' days, and recoil seemed negligible to me, but who knows...).
Regards,
Leo Daher