 |
|
03-10-2013, 01:35 AM
|
#1
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 18
Liked 2 Times on 1 Posts
|
Dry firing
Why is it bad to dry fire a .22 rifle??
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 01:40 AM
|
#2
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: The greatest country in the world, Texas!
Posts: 581
Liked 194 Times on 137 Posts
Likes Given: 82
|
From what I know, and I ain't claiming to be no expert, the problem with dry firing a rimfire gun is the firing pin strikes the face of the chamber causing undue stress on the firing pin. With a center fire gun the pin hits nothing, not causing stress.
Thats just what has always been told to me. However, I would be a hypocrite to say I have never dry fired my .22
__________________
Practice doesn't make perfect, it make permanent.
When I hear a Liberal say "I can speak for gun owners because I own a shotgun" I just want to scream "Well I can speak for vegetarians because I like lettuce on my cheeseburger!"
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 01:42 AM
|
#3
|
|
Supporting Member
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,376
Liked 161 Times on 132 Posts
Likes Given: 115
|
Not a good thing. I wouldn't. Think about it. If there is no rim for the firing pin to strike it has to hit something else, and the chamber is what it will hit. Needless to say that can't e a good thing for the chamber edge. So I would say its a bad thing.
__________________
SIG 1911 .45 ACP
SIG P229R E2 SRT 9mm
Beretta BU9 Nano 9mm
Beretta 84FS .380 ACP
PWS (Primary Weapons Systems) MK114 5.56 NATO
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 03:23 AM
|
#4
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Kalifornia
Posts: 1,009
Liked 128 Times on 109 Posts
Likes Given: 137
|
Depends on the gun, Ruger .22s are okay and I've dry fired my Savage .22 a bunch and there are no problems so far.
__________________
"Let this Hell be our Heaven." - Chris Nielsen What dreams may come By Richard Matheson.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 01:25 PM
|
#5
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: MA, near a brook
Posts: 185
Liked 21 Times on 18 Posts
Likes Given: 31
|
Dry firing
The cartridge case acts as a shock absorber in the rim fire & center fire. Dry firing a rim fire causes the firing pin to strike the outside of the chamber causing damage to the firing pin and or peening the chamber .
Dry firing a center fire causes the firing pin to travel to far possibly damaging the firing pin .
I do not dry fire,my suggestion buy snap caps!
Y'all have a good day.  Cliff
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 02:43 PM
|
#6
|
|
Supporting Member
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Mandeville, LA
Posts: 383
Liked 180 Times on 124 Posts
Likes Given: 65
|
We've had this thread more than once. The consensus is: rim fire no, center fire ok.
World Champion Doug Koenig says he dry fires 20,000 (thousand ) times a year with his competition guns w/o snap caps. If it's ok for him , it's ok for me.
__________________
May the Force be with you.
An armed society is a polite society - Robert Heinlein
A Gun-Free-Zone is nothing more than a hunting preserve for wackos.
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 02:49 PM
|
#7
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Winnweiler, Germany
Posts: 1,118
Liked 468 Times on 322 Posts
Likes Given: 255
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by jgoertz
We've had this thread more than once. The consensus is: rim fire no, center fire ok.
World Champion Doug Koenig says he dry fires 20,000 (thousand ) times a year with his competition guns w/o snap caps. If it's ok for him , it's ok for me.
|
Yes, most modern center fire weapons can be dry fired. Yet, if I have a question about my guns, I go straight to the source. I hate to null and void my warranty. Yes, never dry fire a rim fire weapon.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 04:22 PM
|
#8
|
|
Supporting Member
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 1,376
Liked 161 Times on 132 Posts
Likes Given: 115
|
None of my pistols' manuals state anything about NOT dry firing...except my Nano. It states in the manual to use a "snap cap" when dry firing.
9mm snap caps are about as hard to find as the ammo itself. So I popped the primer out of a spent case and cut a pencil eraser to fit. Works for me.
__________________
SIG 1911 .45 ACP
SIG P229R E2 SRT 9mm
Beretta BU9 Nano 9mm
Beretta 84FS .380 ACP
PWS (Primary Weapons Systems) MK114 5.56 NATO
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 04:29 PM
|
#9
|
|
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 3,254
Liked 647 Times on 505 Posts
Likes Given: 112
|
ESPECIALLY a .22 rimfire! The pin is hitting the outside face of the chamber!! Everything is getting damaged!!! Even centerfires... All the energy has to go somewhere other than into the primer/case and that's not good for the parts either -- they are fighting not to break at that point.
__________________
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
|
|
|
|
|
03-10-2013, 04:41 PM
|
#10
|
|
Moderator
Feedback Score: 0 reviews
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Third bunker on the right,Central Virginia
Posts: 13,069
Liked 3521 Times on 1728 Posts
Likes Given: 521
|
SOME rimfires- Ruger jumps to mind- not a problem. Others, for reasons already stated, no.
IF the FP DOES hit the rim of the chamber, it begins to ding the chamber mouth, Eventually, the metal that SHOULD be supporting the rim is dented, and you can have misfires.
You may also encounter fail to extract- that ding pushed metal out into the chamber, which is a burr against the casing. If you see a bright scratch on the case, in one spot, running rim to mouth- that be it.
A good gunsmith can fix this a time or two- not by reaming it out, but by putting metal back where it belongs. Brownell's sells a Chamber Iron to do this.
Me? Cheapskate. I use a Stanley Nail Set- tap gently in to place, leave it there, use a flat tipped punch beside it to dress the metal into place. Gently does it.
__________________
What we have heah is.... failure to communicate.
|
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
|
|
|
