many dry fires = cheap mans action job?

[zippy66]

I like SW revovlers. I just bought an M66, got some snap caps and over the next several days dry fired and cocked/decocked 1000+ times. The trigger is amost like it has had an action job now. It is my imagination?
Zippy

 

[care-less]

Yes, it is your imagination. You have probably seriously damaged the gun.

 

[foghornl]

The new handgun will have some manufacturing burrs and rough spots on the action parts. Dryfiring smoothes these out.

It is prohibitively expensive to polish out the little bumps-n-burrs during manufacture.

 

[HSMITH]

Part of it is hand strength and the muscles you have built up and toned, the other part is that the action has smoothed out a little. Both go a long way toward making the gun feel great.

 

[gunsmith1]

S%w

Its a good thing. Dry firing (with snap caps) is what I've always called a poor mans action job.

 

[James K]

All of that "smoothing up" that people talk about is nothing much more than accelerated wear. There is more to a good "trigger job" than just smoothing the action, though.

Jim

 

[AUG]

All of that "smoothing up" that people talk about is nothing much more than accelerated wear. There is more to a good "trigger job" than just smoothing the action, though.

So true.

I believe if any improvement is seen it is in your mind. That is not a bad thing. It is just the way it is.