Please precisely define "dry-fire"

[dangerranger]

I dont dry fire my center fire guns either. it promotes firing pin breakage. any kind of snap cap will allow firing without any strain on the pin. I dry fire [ with a snap cap ]hundreds of time a week when working up to a match. DR

[Izzy43]

No Kidding? Huh... I will have to give that a try!

Yep! No kidding.

[Cokebottle]

I dont dry fire my center fire guns either. it promotes firing pin breakage. any kind of snap cap will allow firing without any strain on the pin. I dry fire [ with a snap cap ]hundreds of time a week when working up to a match. DR

Glock, XD, and most other striker-fired guns MUST be dry fired on an empty chamber to field strip.

How is the firing pin going to break when it's not hitting anything? The XD even has a rebound spring that forces the pin to retract after firing... that spring is going to coil-bind before the pin hits the back of the breech.

I've DF'd my XD hundreds of times, if not more. I removed the pin for the first time last week and there was no evidence that it was hitting anything that it shouldn't be hitting.

[M4rk]

ive been dry firing, so i guess we'll see.

[OHW]

The blue 22 dummy rounds are not snap caps. Chips of the aluminum will get into your gun. This is bad.
Ruger uses captured firing pins. The pin has a stop block to keep it from hitting the rim. Those are the only rimfires that I dry fire. Unless the manufacturer has it in writing that their design may be dry fired,

I own centerfires that cannot be dryfired without a snap cap. A floating firing pin will damage it's collar that stops the pins forward momentum. Eventually the collar gets beaten back enough that pierced primers may occur. Amongst other problems in some designs.
As a rule dryfiring is kept to a minimum around my weapons , just to keep the wear and tear in check. They get plenty of wet firing to be broken in.

[covingtonhouse]

Check with Champion shooters supply. They sell Pachmayer snap caps for around $8 for 24. They claim reusability. Cheaper than a firing pin fix........

[big50_1]

There are red plastic .22 dry fire cartridges that are designed for that purpose. Also the saving-some-spent-.22-hulls-from-the-range-for-dry-firing also works. Had a S&W 22A that the FP gouged a slot in the barrel just from a few dry fires. Had to "iron" out the slot and ridges next to it. Not a perfect repair.

[tonelar]

Your firing pin can lose its sharpness from repeatedly striking the edge of your chamber.

[MrPlink]

Ive dry fired the livin crap out of my M&P 15-22. No signs of marks on the chamber.

[Joewy]

I have a Sig Mosquito and after reading this I checked it out. My Wife dry fires it all the time. Couldnt find any marks at all around the chamer or on the FP. The only problem Ive ever had with it is that you got to remember to oil it or it wont feed well.

[E Pluribus Unum]

Ive dry fired the livin crap out of my M&P 15-22. No signs of marks on the chamber.

Neil McCauley's slept with many unclean women and he doesn't have anything.... yet....

[dangerranger]

Glock, XD, and most other striker-fired guns MUST be dry fired on an empty chamber to field strip.

How is the firing pin going to break when it's not hitting anything? The XD even has a rebound spring that forces the pin to retract after firing... that spring is going to coil-bind before the pin hits the back of the breech.

I've DF'd my XD hundreds of times, if not more. I removed the pin for the first time last week and there was no evidence that it was hitting anything that it shouldn't be hitting.

Its that suden stop where the FPs shoulder hits the bolt. the firing pins break at the shoulder. also not good for the FP spring. where the FP stops its compleately collapsed. I probably pull the trigger 200 times a day, without a snap cap firing pins dont last. DR