Dry Fire

[The Annoyed Man]

Dry fire all you want. No need for snap caps. I've dry fired my Glocks as much or more than I've shot them. never used snap caps for this.

Lesser, inferior guns may require snap caps - Perfection does not

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I'm waiting for TAM to bite ...

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I'll bite........ don't use 'em myself, on any of my guns. But since I don't know what someone is shooting, I advocate snapcaps. They may be tied to a Glock and can't get out from under it, in which case, snap caps certainly can't hurt anything.

One thing though, if I'm dryfiring a .22, I'll chamber a spent case and let the firing pin drop on the case rim.

[Rugrash]

Paul Howe (CSAT) recommends 20% live fire and 80% dry fire.

[Ericstac]

I've seen guys in forums that do competition shooting that dry fire hundreds if not thousands of times a day.

[SigM4]

The manual will tell you about this. So far, neither my P226 Navy, P7M8 or GP100 have any restrictions about dry-firing.

Sig gunsmith and shooting master Bruce Gray, whose shooting school I have attended several times, says that shooting is "dry-firing with noise." You might refer to his article "Dry fire secrets of the pros" http://grayguns.com/dry-fire-secrets-of-the-pros/

No harm in using snap caps, of course. Apparently no harm in not either. I believe, but do not know, that rimfire pistols are more likely to require snap caps.

I'm told that SEALs advocate dry-firing, 200 trigger pulls a night is what I've heard.

Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect, but perfect practice might. Get some instruction in proper grip, aiming etc. so your practice will be perfect, and you won't have to unlearn any bad habits.

The key to dry firing is to make absolutely positively certain, and re-check, that the gun is actually "dry." There is to be no noise while dry-firing!

I'll echo JALLEN here. Last class I took a class with Bruce, I probably did 300+ dry fires the first day, vs. about 40 rounds of live ammo. Each night after class I went back to my hotel room and ran through at least another 200 dry fires. All told during a three day class I'd guess I probably dry fired somewhere between 800-1000 times (as did the rest of the class). No issues among anyone's guns. However, as others have said there is no harm in using snap-caps.