Dry fire Glock 23 safe or not?

[far from tactical]

I.dry fire it and use snap caps

[dingle_berry]

I own a 23. Probably dry fired it over 1000 times, never had more than one fte in the 2000+ rounds I've shot though the weapon (not proper ratio, I learned about dry firing too late in my education). I have snap caps. I use them exclusively for practicing clearing failures. I wouldn't sweat it.

[dingle_berry]

To be clear, my one fte is the only failure I've ever had with the weapon

[trooper357]

To be clear, my one fte is the only failure I've ever had with the weapon

Just curious, what was the cause of the fte?

[den888]

Drying firing is fine.

[dingle_berry]

Trooper, honesty I didn't diagnose it. I just cleared it and kept on firing. It occurred during a shooting course I was taking, not in normal range practice. I've probably put 600 rounds through her since that incident, 400 in the Vegas desert, without even a hiccup.

[fullspeed1]

Dry fire the **** out of it, Snap caps or not...

[corcoraj2002]

Since you are practicing draws. Get the snap caps and add malfunction scenarios into your drill.

[Fractured]

I've dry-fired my g17 thousands of times, about 50% of the time with snap caps. Never had a single malfunction, in about 3000 rounds (knock on wood)

[h0use]

Use some snap caps

[trooper357]

Since you are practicing draws. Get the snap caps and add malfunction scenarios into your drill.

Now that's a good idea. Thanks

[rolncode3]

During the Glock armorer class the instructor said nothing about dry firing with the slide on (like you would normally do).

He did specifically cover dry firing with the slide removed and said that will damage the trigger safety because the functionality is changed (trigger safety rests against frame which it doesn't do normally). It sounds stupid that anyone would be doing this, but the instructor did cover it because apparently someone did it.

[HighLander51]

Repeated dry firing will collapse the breach face. I have seen several guns in USPSA that had this issue. To be fair, we are talking 30,000 clicks.