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If the firing pin is not attached to the hammer, any gun is safe to dry fire.
Before you say otherwise, look it up and state your source.
 
What are you trying to accomplish with them?
You're not going to hurt your gun dry firing it empty.
The only dummy rounds I have are 12ga. & they're only for loading practice.
 
benjamin-benjamin said:
i have heard dry firing empty is not a good idea??? i am still learning so i am open to the "facts"
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You shouldn't dry fire your 22's but your XDM, shotgun, AR15 are all good to go. I load up some dummy rounds for my mags so that they have the same weight as a live round but don't have powder or a primer in them.
 
Wow, where did all this come from???

Franson, do you have any idea how many tens of thousands of dry fires I have on my various firearms?...Even my 10-22 and Colt single action??? Did you click on his link??? Are you familier with Safe-t-trainers at all??? I am!!

First off they are not "Snap Caps" (which I don't use anyway) but they are brittle plastic that shatters when struck by the firing pin and then the orange bullet falls out into the barrel. In the best case it all just crubles away and falls out the barrel, BUT in one case with repeted dry firing with a 1911, the firing pin broke out all the cheap plastic and then got stuck in the flash hole of the case they use. We had to hammer the slide back breaking the firing pin when it unlocked to get it out.
So I repete NO THEY AREN'T ANY GOOD FOR DRY FIRE. THEY ARE NOT MADE FOR THAT!!
 
Jesse Tischauser said:
You shouldn't dry fire your 22's but your XDM, shotgun, AR15 are all good to go. I load up some dummy rounds for my mags so that they have the same weight as a live round but don't have powder or a primer in them.
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Correct, not good for rimfires but any centerfire semi-auto will be fine.
I'm with Jesse, I only use them (real bullets, no powder, used primer) for loading practice.
 
Well I don't even use dummies for loading practice, I load the tube and then hit the shell release with my traffic finger and unload the mag this way. I never rack one into the chamber, That way the ones I use to do loading practice get cycled through my regular shooting practice when they start getting ratty.

I don't beleive in using ANY DUMMY AMMO that looks like real ammo, for any kind of dry practice, because at some time or another a live round WILL get in there! Several L.E. Trainies have been "shot" with the type of dummy ammo you guys use. That is why I use real ammo. There is never any doubt and so it is safer. KurtM
 
Yes Benjamin, just an empty chamber!

Jesse the last one I saw...yes saw! Happened in Aurora Colorado at the Aurora P.D. training center in the middle 90s. They had a star reloader and had made a bunch of 9mm "dummy" rounds with a case, spent priimer and a new bullet crimped in. They were goin over imediate action drills....Tap rack bang, and had the students in 3 rows in the class room, one behind the other. On the forth evolution there was a real bang and one of the Female cadets was shot right in the back of the head and died before she hit the ground. The "dummy" bullet exited her head and almost struck the lead instructor at the front of the class.

Somehow a live round had found it's way off the range and into the "dummy" round supply, it looked just like the rest except for the dent in the primier, and the NEW to firearm student didn't know what he was looking at! I don't like any dummy round that looks like REAL ammo!

Yeah there were lots of problems with what they were doing and how they were doing it, imagine in ROWS, and I was there observing the training with an eye on helping change their firearms program and had already remarked that what they were doing just wasn't safe, but I had been assured that these were "dummy rounds"! KurtM
 
Kurt, I understand & agree with everything you said. While still not completely out of the realm of possibilty of having a mix up, I make sure my dummy rounds are a different color than the ammo I use. I know it's not the best situation, but I dont feel comfortable practicing with live shells right now. I do make sure not to bring any live ammo into my practice area.
 
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I used these while transforming my POS FM-90 into a gunfighting Hi-Power. Why? Because the ejection port on a Hi-Power is very small, and creates a long shadow into the chamber. I checked for clear while cycling loaded ammo through, and didn't see the round still gripped by the extractor. When I "dry-fired", the round went through my garage wall and smacked into the brick of the neighbors house. I have snap caps for all my calibers now. The money spent is much better than a terrible accident.
 
I had a .22 semi-auto extractor hold on to a live round once...now there's a hole in a bird house :/

Better to learn with a birdhouse
 
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