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Posted: 10/10/2005 1:30:40 PM EDT
| does anyone use Snap Caps? i saw them on cheaperthandirt.com and Cabela's. they say theyre good to practice trigger pull and to cycle thru the weapon. since im in college, i wont be able to shoot much, but id like to just practice in my room. i thought they were a good idea, load up 10 rounds in my mag and go thru it. but then, right before i was about to order some, i realized that they were the exact same size ammo, but, in the real gun only the casing comes out. with the snap caps, the whole bullet and casing would be coming out. so do these not work since it is not just the length of a casing coming out of the chamber? |
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DO NOT dry fire the lower without the upper attatched!! You can crack the lower in the spot where your bolt catch is installed...The hammer smacks into the lower, and isnt stopped by your BC assembly.. As long as your gun is assembled you are good to dry fire. |
Ditto, I probably dry fired 5,000 times this summer practicing for High Power matches. No issues here. |
No problem.. Ride the slide forward and dry fire.. Dont let the slide slam home on en empty chamber.... Dont ride the hammer down on an empty chamber.. The only guns not to dry fire are rimfires... Revolvers too, but I cant remember if its the ones with FPs intergrated into the hammer or not.. No No for sure on the rimfires though.. |
WHAT? Most 1911's you won't have a problem with dry firing on empty chamber. Kimber, in fact, encourages it. My thought on the reasoning behind it, is that while other manufacturers are hesitant to endorse the technique, Kimber tells gun retailers to do it, therefore potential customers hear that Kimber has such faith in their guns, as well as they get to experience the trigger break w/o having to load in a snapcap. There's not a problem with letting the slide drop or riding the hammer forward on an empty chamber either. How else would you lower the hammer on an empty chamber? 
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Sorry.. Just going off of what my Kimber dealer told me when I bought my ProCarry...Something to do with how 45ACP headspaces with the cartridge... God forbid I made a mistake here..
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