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Iron sights are sights without optical or electronic components. The category of iron sights includes open sights such as patridge or "express" sights and also aperture sights such as peep sights or ghost ring sights.

Handguns invariably come from the factory with open iron sights, usually of the patridge variety.
 
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What are iron sights? Just regular sights on the gun??
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I hope you'll excuse us. It's sometimes too easy for us to fall into technical terminology while forgetting that someone new to guns may not be familiar with it.

Anyway, those regular sights on the gun are what are generally called "iron sight." That's simply the "inside" way of referring to a sighting set up with a rear sight and some sort of front sight that the shooter lines up. Other types of sights are "optical" (like telescopes or holographic or various other types of high tech gizmos one looks through), or lasers.
 
I have gazoople checked the chamber (visually and with my finger), and I have an empty mag. I'm still nervous about dry firing in my house. But I guess I need to get over it.
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It's good that you're a little spooked. You should always double check your chamber, and confirm that you have an empty mag when dry firing. Plenty of people have inadvertantly fired guns that they assumed were safe to dry-fire.

Something to consider is the use of an Empty Chamber Indicator. This is just a flexible rod or plastic cord that extends from the chamber through the barrel. It confirms that your chamber is empty, and it makes it easy to check the chamber - you can't push it through if there's a round in there. The simplest ECI is something like weed wacker cord. You'd just cut a length that's long enough that both ends are visible, through both the chamber and the muzzle end of the barrel.
 
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Better still, pick up a Train Safe barrel block, or a Blade Tech Training Barrel. These products cost about $5-$10 and can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars in damages.

I need to change my dryfire page to mention these types of products, because they really are a godsend.

pax
 
Pax, I guess that's a hint that I need to get some skill with disassembling my gun! I've been shown how, but haven't done it yet.
 
Yeah - I remember how scared I was the first time I disassembled my handgun on my own, in order to clean it. I was terrified I wouldn't be able to get it back together, and then would embarrass myself having to take a bag of parts to the gun store to get help with it! And I was even more afraid I'd put it together wrong, and then carry it around not knowing that it wouldn't work when I needed it ...

The only solution for that is -- do it. Use the manual, follow the instructions step by step, be brave. Once you've done it a few times, it becomes much easier and you'll be much more comfortable around the firearm as you get a better picture how it works.

pax
 
you need to do it about 10 times to memorize it. its like shaving your legs, or putting on make up. its about repetition. now you are just doing it with metal.
read the instructions and don't stop cause you need that thing re-assembled and working!
after downloading the instruction manual, it really doesn't look that bad at all. pretty easy in fact.
1. rack it back and lock it.
2. take down switch is moved up to 12 oclock
3. ride the slide back down, and pull trigger, then release to unlock slide
4. take off slide.
5. pull the slide so the underside is facing up.
6. hold the spring at the end, pull it back, up, then forward
pull out the barrel. clean it all up, put it all back together. rack 2-3 times to ensure functionality. re-load and enjoy protection
 
Read the instructions and don't stop cause you need that thing re-assembled and working!
after downloading the instruction manual, it really doesn't look that bad at all. pretty easy in fact.
1. rack it back and lock it.
2. take down switch is moved up to 12 oclock
3. ride the slide back down, and pull trigger, then release to unlock slide
4. take off slide.
5. pull the slide so the underside is facing up.
6. hold the spring at the end, pull it back, up, then forward
pull out the barrel. clean it all up, put it all back together. rack 2-3 times to ensure functionality. re-load and enjoy protection
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Step 0, make sure gun is unloaded, you also need to make sure the magazine has been removed, can do it before or after step 1. Do a search on U-tube for "field strip" plus you guns model number, should turn a few hits, watch a few because some guys skip by some steps pretty quick.
 
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