Posted: 7/16/2009 10:22:50 PM EDT
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Its this a wise idea? I dry fire my few Glocks from time to time, but not enough.
It bugs me when people say I shouldn't. I have a Glock 22 that I bought used and don't very often. I am thinking about keeping track of how many times I dry fire it. Maybe 3,000 dry fires and then shoot 15 rounds, and repeat. |
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No point, really. Glocks are fine for dryfiring. It's no problem at all. As far as I know, it doesn't damage anything.
No point, because it's not really stressing things....................and to be sure, if you used a "Snap-Cap", my guess is you could dry fire it endlessly. I dry fire mine all the time. While I do keep track of rounds fired through my weapons (like an odometer for a car, I feel), I would never bother to track the number of times they were dry fired. Have at it, but you'll break your finger before you break the gun. 
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I am thinking about keeping track of how many times I dry fire it. Maybe 3,000 dry fires and then shoot 15 rounds, and repeat. At that ratio, it will be good exercise, and very cheap to shoot. 
Yes, I think the pistol will win in the dry fire torture test - Pistol vs Finger |
| Someone, somewhere, somehow, has probably damaged a Glock with dry firing, but I'd have to see it to believe it. Some guns will be damaged by it - a Beretta 92's firing pin will eventually break and M&P strikers seem to have problems - but the Glock is not one of them. Dry fire with confidence. |
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When I used to haunt the pages of Glocktalk several years ago. There was mention of some fella who actually did break the firing pin cups on his.
He supposedly dryfired a couple hours a day all the time. I don't have any verification of this, and have never had any problems dryfiring my g17, so take it with a grain of salt. |
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I dry fire my 1911s. I don`t dry fire my Glocks. There have been problems reportedly from dry firing.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=228839 
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Surely the slides in the pics posted by Boru were defective in some way. Could be. The metallurgy can`t be perfect 100% of the time, and Glock does produce a bunch of pistols. But, the striker does impact the back of the breech face, and it is thin around the striker channel. Understanding that and seeing the punched out breech faces is reason for me to use dummy rounds. |
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Surely the slides in the pics posted by Boru were defective in some way. Could be. The metallurgy can`t be perfect 100% of the time, and Glock does produce a bunch of pistols. But, the striker does impact the back of the breech face, and it is thin around the striker channel. Understanding that and seeing the punched out breech faces is reason for me to use dummy rounds. Absolutely. Nobody, including Glock, is going to get everything right every time. I'm thinking there may have been a slight defect of some sort, whatever it might've been, allowing the slides to be weaker than they should be at the breechface. And yes, definitely, one solitary snap cap would be easy and cheap insurance against this happening to anyone's pistol.
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Some guns will be damaged by it - a Beretta 92's firing pin will eventually break and M&P strikers seem to have problems. Don't know about the M&P, but the M9s in mil service have been dry fired millions if not billions of times. Firing pin breaks are not all that common and I have not seen a replacement pin ordered. Almost 2 decades ago when going through TBS, I remember almost a week of 4 hours a day dry firing my M9. Those pistols had been through the same routine ever TBS class for almost ten years at that point. |
I broke my Beretta's firing pin with lots of dry firing, and I've read about others breaking on other sites. I thought it was a known issue with them. If I'm wrong, though, it wouldn't be the first time. It's a cheap and easy replacement part, in any event.
 at the broken Glock breech face. I've dry-fired the crap out of my 1989 vintage G19. I haven't counted, but it must be some multiple of the rounds I've fired through that gun, and I've put more than 10,000 rounds through it. You learn something every day.
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