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Posted: 5/29/2007 3:03:29 PM EDT
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Where can I buy quality snap caps for my AR? Thanks. Eagle 3 out |
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I've never had a problem dry firing on an empty (check it twice) chamber. I've done in who knows how often. I've spent hours at a time just squeeeezing. The military preaches it for marksmanship training. Competitive shooters will drop the hammer on a empty chamber a thousand times for every live round they put down range. There are a few guns you don't want to dry fire empty too often. Rimfire cartridges come to mind first, and I know there are others, I just can't think of them. |
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I use them ONLY to intersperse with my live ammo. Throw a couple in the loose ones, load up. Get to practice simulated failure-to-fire malfunctions. As a former USMC marksmanship instructor, I believe that of all the basics (breath controll, trigger squeeze, etc) sight picture and not anticipating the shot are by far the most important. I don't think they're needed for dryfiring. |
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You can get a dry fire device for Sinclair International that does 3 things - it lets you dry fire your AR without the hammer ever hitting home on the back of the BCG, it lets you recock your AR with only about 1/4" of rearword movement of the Cocking Handle, and it prevents an AD since the hammer can NEVER hit the firing pin. They are about $15.00 IIRC. I like mine for doing Dry Fire Practice. 5Shot |
Is it really quality practice if you aren't going through the actual procedures? IMO muscle memory should be built from the actual sequence of events, not one that is modified in anyway |
| Snap caps are a decent substitute for dummy rounds for any purpose, particularly in function testing. For an AR, I'd want five of them, minimum. I'm about 1/2 way done with making up some dummies (stuff seems to come up that gets me away from the bench-life, school, you know...) for this purpose. |
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I guess I would call 'quality' one that can have it's rim (whatever it's called) survive getting chambered and extracted AND feel close enough like a real round I don't notice when I'm loading. Ideally, I would like to have fired brass with a bullet shoved in. Keep in mind, these quasi snap caps should never be used on the homefront due to their resemblance to live ammo. Wouldn't want my Beta-Max/8-track or the neighbors to have any flying objects passing by. |
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I have seen them in Cabela's, Sportsman's guide, Cheaper than Dirt, and just hanging on the rack at several gun stores. Usually, they are a clear or red polycarbonate body with a brass rim and base, and a springloaded primer button. I have never bought any or used any, but it seemed like a good idea, at least when you read the marketing copy... for practicing lock & load and clearing, trigger pulling, etc. |
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I use them in all my guns. Dry firing, failure drills, storage, etc. I like the A-zoom aluminum ones. The solid plastic dummy rounds you find at the fun show are cheap enough to fill a magazine with to check feeding and ejection. I found that the spring loaded Pachmayr caps will degrade and come apart if exposed to CLP so I don't use those anymore. For some purposes you can just use a spent round. Colonel Hurtz |
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Ditto that. I've got a ton of the A-Zoom snap caps. I bought a ton of them for all of my guns from Cheaper Than Dirt. Their stock levels go in and out so it took me awhile to get all I wanted. If you run into the same problem just keep checking back. They're pretty decent quality...some type of metal constructions, not sure what type, and they have nice little rubber primers to keep everything protected. I've never heard that it was okay to dry fire an AR. I've always been told dry firing=very bad...but they were not talking about ARs. I couldn't really tell from the posts above...was the consensus that it is okay to dry fire our ARs? I know every video I have...they always dry fire their ARs like crazy...demonstrating or post cleaning. |
If you want to "Dry Fire" and get a feel for propper trigger control, then I think this is the best option, since you never have to pick them off the floor, reload, etc. - I can fire 10X the number of shots than I could with a dummy. If you want to practice all of the laoding, clearing drills, etc. than a dummy round of some sort is in order. My interpretation of the question was that he was looking for something to ease the shock of dropping the hammer. 5Shot |
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