Model 19 Dryfiring?

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GAC

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I bought a Model 19-3 today at a gunshow (Great Western in Phoenix). Are these okay to dryfire without snap caps? It has the hammer mounted firing pin.

As an addendum, I got a good deal. The gun is in pretty good shape with a bead blasted finish, pinned barrel, hogue grips, trigger job, and recessed cylinder. It also has the first owner's name other dude's name on the frame below the cylinder.

The cylinder has a little play and one guy I showed it to showed me it was alittle out of time for sungle action but said it should be fine for double action.

I saw several Model 19s at the show including a two inch one that was tagged for 280 bucks. I paid $275.00 for the one I got.
 
I hope it is still ok to dry fire model 19's, mine has been dry fired hundreds, maybe thousands of times. I would suggest getting the timing fixed.
 
Should use snap caps when dryfiring em.

That said, I usually don't. And have been dryfiring Smiths for over half a century.

Sam
 
I'M WITH THE OL' MAN SAM ON THIS ONE.

I have snapped S+W sixguns for the past five decades incessently. My M19 has almost 50,000 rounds through it and I'll bet it's been dry fired 2 or 3 times that much. All it does is make 'em smoother.
I bought some of those snapcaps once....ain't got clue one what ever happened to 'em.
I snap the snot outta my Rugers too.
BUT I DO NOT SNAP/DRY FIRE ANY COLT SAA, NOR ANY CLONE OF THE COLT SAA EVER EVER EVER...AHH NEVER!!!
 
GAC,

Sounds like you got a good shooter. I'd take it to a good smith and have it tuned up, especially the timing. Then shoot it and dry fire it to your hearts content.

I have had a bunch of S&W's and never broke one, dry fireing it.


TERRY MURBACH,

BUT I DO NOT SNAP/DRY FIRE ANY COLT SAA, NOR ANY CLONE OF THE COLT SAA EVER EVER EVER...AHH NEVER!!!
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Please educate me, why not on a Colt or a clone? What will be damaged / worn by dryfiring one?
 
My gunsmith say's it doesn't hurt anything. Most of the folks here agree with him. Jerry Kuhnhausen say's don't ever do it. I'm confused...so I do a little of both. :)
 
When I was a kid, my dad would beat the snot out of us for dry firing any of our firearms. As a habit, I still don't dry fire weapons of any kind without some type of backup for the pin.
 
I've dry fired all my 19's quite a bit w/out snap caps and haven't had any issues.

One thing puzzles me here though. You say this is a 19-3,, and it's bead blasted?? I'm wondering why anyone would bead blast a blued steel gun?
 
I have owned and shot a lot of S&W revolvers over 4 decades. I dry fired all of them thousands of times. I never had a problem with any of them.
I currently use a S&W M-19-7 in IDPA that I have dry fired many thousands times. Great gun!
 
The bead blasted finish could easily be one of two things. Either the previous owner did not like a reflective finish and gave it a bead blasted blue finish or the guns finish became worn and maybe pitted and was refinished in bead blasted blue.
 
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