dry fire a gun?

[metalhead357]

SHOULD I continue to dry fire my USP .45f?

as the poster before....I dunno why you wouldn't.....

[DrjonesUSA]

I have heard it is not advised to dry fire a gun without snap caps. Can someone tell me why this is so?
Thanks

If it is a modern, fairly recently-produced gun (within last 20 years or so) you do not need to worry about it, unless the manufacturer specifically recommends against it for VALID reasons, and not just CYA BS.

Any modern pistol is well-built enough and the metals are tough enough to withstand thousands of dry-fires.

Plink away.

[Slick]

I would consider a gun you can't dry fire useless. You need to do dry fire drills to master your trigger.

[AKman]

Would you dry fire your girlfriend?

[mousegun]

Would you dry fire your girlfriend?

Only with a snap cap. Better safe than sorry. Wouldn't wanna damage yer firing pin.

[Archenemy550]

I dry fire my AR's all the time. Never had any problems

I might wanna add that I have the titanium one tho... ya know, wanted to reduce the weight of my gun, decrease group size, (accuracy purposes for you non gun types) you know.... pretty standard.

lol, im kidding, I lost my original and went for broke with titanium.

[5968]

Back to the useless factor if ya' ask me.....WHY own a gun that the firing pin is so troublesome? The only use I have for snap caps is *dry LOADING* some guns after I've been monky'n with the action (i.e. lever action 30-30, pump SG).

If you've got a gun where the firing pin is hitting something other than the primer-- you got a problem. You have a rimfire firing pin that connecting with the chamber rim-- You got a problem. You have a firing pin that cant hold up to being dry-fired----> you got a problem. Jussss me- but I wont onw something like that simply for the reason that if the friggin thing breaks under SPRING pressure---> What in the hell is going to do with a primer burst??????/

+1

[Rums]

I only use snap caps on revolvers, simply because its really the only way to practice reloading.