Dry Fire a Glock without snap caps

[The War Wagon]

What's the WORST that could happen?

[DDM4556]

I dry-fire my glocks w/o snap caps. You have to dry-fire the guns to take them apart so...
Recently picked up snap-caps that stay in place when you rack the slide. They work fine, from the little I've used them. I'll have to try the magazine.

[Abenaki]

This guy probably dry-fired his Glock in million repetitions to crack the breech face.


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I think that cracking the slide did not happen because he dry fired it.
He was more than likely letting the slide slam home a zillon times, while
dry firing.

Take care
Abenaki

[G-forceJunkie]

No, its the dry firing. As a Glock armor, I saw it several times, from USPSA guys, dryfire practicing them hundreds of thousands of times. Without a primer to slightly cushin the blow, the firing pin hits the back of the breachface faster/harder than when its setting off a primer. Sure, Glocks were designed to be dry fired for dissasemby, but think about it, that means a few hundred or thousand times in it life. Not 250k times. Now that the market is glut with aftermarket slides for reasonable prices, I would buy one of those for my "dryfire practice gun." When it brakes, throw it away and buy a new one.

I think that cracking the slide did not happen because he dry fired it.
He was more than likely letting the slide slam home a zillon times, while
dry firing.

Take care
Abenaki

[rodralig]

Now that the market is glut with aftermarket slides for reasonable prices, I would buy one of those for my "dryfire practice gun." When it brakes, throw it away and buy a new one.

And way cheaper than an OEM one! (But then again, I think Glock will replace it anyway)


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[sweetfoal]

Rather that doing that parts mod to a spare striker assembly, just buy a dry fire mag. Shoot to your hearts content and you don't even need to rack the slide each shot.

That must not be the same trigger pull as in real dry fire if that mag somehow trick the trigger bar to reset every pull without touching the fire pin striker.

I think the only way to avoid fire pin or breach face damage is to replace the fire pin with something else, like a plunge to hinge on the cruciform to work with the trigger reset. But everytime practice dry fire you'd have to replace that fake fire pin.

[oktavist]

You don't have to dry fire a glock to take it apart. Just FYI.

Option 1. Use a snap cap. Take the slide off with the snap cap inside still. Remove barrel. Remove snap cap. Clean as usual.

Option 2. Take out the striker before removing the slide. Lock slide back and remove back plate....... Clean as usual...

[five.five-six]

I'm trying to get a good classification in USPSA. Especially with ammo shortages the way they are right now, dry fire is much preferred over live fire.

Ammo shortages? Are there ammo shortages? What a silly thing to worry about.


With your advanced level of OCD, you should be hanging out with my buddy Dillon.


Dillon laughs at ammo shortages. Ha-ha!

[9Cal_OC]

You don't have to dry fire a glock to take it apart. Just FYI.

Option 1. Use a snap cap. Take the slide off with the snap cap inside still. Remove barrel. Remove snap cap. Clean as usual.

Option 2. Take out the striker before removing the slide. Lock slide back and remove back plate....... Clean as usual...

[tuna quesadilla]

Ammo shortages? Are there ammo shortages? What a silly thing to worry about.


With your advanced level of OCD, you should be hanging out with my buddy Dillon.


Dillon laughs at ammo shortages. Ha-ha!

That is a needlessly condescending comment from someone who's clearly out of touch with reality.

Reloading supplies are in a shortage too right now.

Go to MidwayUSA right now and search for small pistol primers. There aren't any in stock there.

Go to Brownell's right now and search for small pistol primers. There aren't any in stock there.

Go to SGAmmo right now and search for small pistol primers. There aren't any in stock there.

I'm sure they're out there, but they're sure not easy to find. Yes, there's just a wee bit of a shortage right now on pistol ammo and reloading components. This is a thread about how people can still get dry fire training without massive ammo stockpiles like you and I have.

[W.R.Buchanan]

OK,,, dry firing for hours on end? Really? After 10-15 minutes you are beyond any benefit and are only developing bad habits. Also doing it for hours every day cuz you're bored is not going to be all that beneficial. Once or twice a week for 15 minutes. Maybe 3 times if you're that bored.

Maybe a SIRT Training Pistol so you can see where your shots are going? I have one next to my Easy Chair and shoot it at things in the living room frequently and I have shot Hildegard on TV probably a thousand times in the last 5 years. Nice double taps with a failure to stop included when she'd hold still for it. Very satisfying!!!!

I don't know what you think you are trying to accomplish but a Higher USPSA Rating is not one of them. All you are doing is ingraining bad habits so deep you'll never get past them.

Dry Fire practice is not a place where more is better. it has it's place but taking to to ridiculous levels is pointless and you are just wearing out your gun. Maybe a Glock Airsoft pistol?

My .02

Randy