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03Lightningrocks wrote:I am wanting to buy some of the dry fire rounds. I think they call them snap caps. It makes me crazy every time I hear that click on the empty chamber. I have heard it doesn't hurt the gun but it bugs me anyway.

I have also been told the .22 is harmed by dry firing. Not sure....

I believe that you are correct about .22 .....or at leas most of them anyway. I actually own snapcaps in all of my calibers (except .22), but I find that I never use them simply because at the time I am dry-firing, it never occurs to me to go get them and load them into the firearm.

03Lightningrocks wrote:

CC Italian wrote:That is how I am. I don't need it right now but I always check when at the store and would buy some .40, 9mm or .22 if they ever had any. Why you ask? Mainly because I haven't slowed down my practicing at the range. Meaning once I do run through my ammo (going to take a while ) I am going to have to buy more and I really don't want to buy it online. They are milking it for every cent they can while Academy hasn't gone up much and Wal-Mart is the same price from what I can see. I guess in a perfect world I would like to buy enough to last me a month at a time which comes out to about 600-1000 rounds in various calibers. The stuff I am going through now in 9mm cost me something like 10 bucks a box and it is what I shoot most because it is the most powerful semi auto handgun round my wife is comfortable with, meaning it gets used by both her and I and gets double duty.

I am lucky you weren't there to make this argument. I would have been leaving with my three box allotment. you make a very good point.

There is no doubt that my range time has suffered because of the shortage, and for the same reasons. I don't have "apocalypse" quantities on hand, but I do have about 2,000 rounds [abbreviated profanity deleted] 5.56 on hand, and maybe 2,000 round on hand in various other calibers. It's not just that I can't replace it......if I am diligent enough and spend enough time and money on it I can probably find a box here and a box there to replace what I shoot. It's that I can't afford the replacement cost.....or rather, the replacement cost isn't worth as much to me as the price of other things, like food and electricity.

I'm not too worried about my rifles. They're all zeroed, and it is a skill that just doesn't seem to fade, and there have been other long periods where I didn't shoot them much or at all and when I finally got them out to the range I found that they still shot true, and so did I. But I do notice that my handgunning skills fall off a bit if I don't maintain them—most particularly in terms of sight acquisition and trigger control.

So I dry fire a lot and hope for the best.