snap caps?

Its just the nature of forums in general, folks quite often don't take the time to read all 50 post and sometimes don't even read the op and just go off of the title. Feel free to ignore those post and try not to take it personally.
 
Some misinformation is being given here regarding S & W revolvers. Any revolver with a 'hammer nose' type of firing pin SHOULD NOT be repeatedley dry fired without a snap cap. When one of these firing pins breaks, it will fly across the room like a BB from a gun. Mine, from a S&W model 66 ricocheted off of two different walls before coming to rest. Can an empty - unloaded, revolver hurt you? -- The answer is definitley YES, if it was pointed towards someone.
 
Buy a set of snap caps the next time that you make an ammo purchase. They last very well in general (I've used Azoom and Tipton).
At first I used them to practice just trigger control and various grips (right 2handed, left 2 handed, left and right one-handed). Now I use them to practice while watching soccer games, trying to hit the ball. It's good practice to follow moving targets and work on your trigger control--when the angle changes from remote to close up, you lose the ball and have to re-acquire. I dunno, it seems like good practice to me.
I haven't tried watching Netflix with them to help out my heroes yet.
 
Empty cases (fired cases) are not good snap caps. After a blow or two the primer is dented so much that it has no cushioning effect on the firing pin.

Years ago, I bought some 2' lengths of nylon rod in two diameters, 4.5mm and 5.5mm. Those diameters happen to be close to the common primer diameters (.180" and .220") so when I need snap caps, I cut off pieces to primer length and put them in the primer pockets of fired cases. They last about forever and can easily be replaced, plus they seem to do a good job cushioning the firing pin.

Jim
 
I dont like using used cases, or cases that are made of brass, and look like a standard round, as they are to hard to tell apart. I much prefer the specific made snap caps that dont look like a loaded round. Thats part f the "safety" thing.

You also dont have the issue of whatever is placed in the primer pocket coming apart with use, and getting into things that would not be good. The A Zooms Ive used constantly over the years, have never had that issue. I cant say thats the case with the home made jobs Ive made or seen.
 
I get it. Do you not read the thread? I have retracted my original opinion at least three times. What is the deal here? Everyone has to take a shot at me to feel good about themselves?
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Sorry YoungGunz. I didn't mean to rub salt in the wound. :o

I did just quickly browse the comments in the thread.
 
Without the recoil how much help is that? I was raised with guns and to me it just sounds like something hokie someone would do to pretend like they are learning how to shoot.
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The top competitors in gun games practice by dry firing for HOURS every day. I know one uspsa grand master that dry fires thousands of times a day. Learning skills like firing, mag change, firing in a second takes huge numbers of repetitions and it's far safer learning where you can't shoot your leg!
 
I am no expert or pro shooter. I use snap caps and recently purchased a Lazer Ammo system to practice in my basement. I love it.
 
I've seen online "how-to" videos showing how to make your own snap cap. You use a spent casing and an eraser. I own actual snap caps and have never attempted this.
 
YungGunz said:
I get it. Do you not read the thread? I have retracted my original opinion at least three times. What is the deal here? Everyone has to take a shot at me to feel good about themselves?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot


"Well I stand corrected from my original post then. Clearly a lot of folks find dry firing very useful. I can admit when I am wrong"

Enjoy your forums. I think I will move on.
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Wait, what? A few folks skimmed though the thread and didn't see your retraction comments, and now you're leaving the forum because of it? If you can't handle a friendly forum like TFL, I think you'll have a way worse time on the rest of the Internet...

But if you changed your mind and decided to stick around, please take my following comment as a further emphasis on the value of dry-firing, and not as another correction on your original dry-firing comment:

In three weeks, a Marine recruit is taught how to hit a torso-sized target at 500 yards using an M16 with a crappy trigger and iron sights (well, now they use ACOGs apparently, but that's a very recent development). And one whole week of that training is simply dry-firing all day long at a barrel with little targets drawn on it.

The Marine Corps is legendary for its high level of service-wide marksmanship, from the most hardened infantryman to the admin clerk who sits at a desk most of the day. And the Marine Corps views dry-firing as valuable enough to have it compose a full third of every recruit's rifle marksmanship training.
 
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