Posted: 12/16/2009 7:50:06 AM EDT
| Just sitting around pondering how often everyone else dry fires their Glocks. Do you use snap caps or just go ahead with nothing in it? Do you use this for practice or other reasons besides striping it down? I try not to do it that often but I like to do it to practice squeezing the trigger with no snap caps. What do you guys do? |
| I think in my case it is when am I not dry firing. I dry fire it all the time. No I do not use snap caps. *Here it comes*. I do it to build/maintain muscle memory. I also have a target hanging in my "War room" that I practice drawing/aiming/trigger drills with. Hey I may not be able to get to the range a whole hell of a lot, but I figure any practice is better than none. |
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Whenever I feel like it. For fieldstripping and for occasional practice. I don't have big 1,000 dryfire sessions though. I'd probably use a snapcap then just 'cause. Yeah I try not to make a habit out of it but I have noticed some peening on the striker, so I have been thinking of getting some snap caps. |
| Not as much as i used to, generally just before and after range trips. I dont like to rechamber my carry rounds more than a couple times, so when i clear the chamber that round usually goes in the box w/ my target ammo. I've got plans to buy a second Glock 19 soon, which is my carry gun, and I'll probly dry fire more with it, as it will be unloaded in the safe for the most part. |
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I dry fire a lot. Probably close to a hour a week. I'm working away from home right now and I don't have much to do during my down time.
By the way, I use a empty case with the primer removed and the primer pocket filled with hot glue. It seems to hold up well and provides a solid but yet soft area for the striker / firing pin to hit. |
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I dryfire for practice but could always use more practice time. Dry fire is great for practice and preferable in many some ways to range time. It's good to program the muscle memory and to focus on skills without having to worry about anticipating the 'bang' and flinching. The 'bang' should always be a surprise, because flinching plays hell with accuracy. Gotta avoid the flinch demon. |
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I dry fire a lot. Probably close to a hour a week. I'm working away from home right now and I don't have much to do during my down time. By the way, I use a empty case with the primer removed and the primer pocket filled with hot glue. It seems to hold up well and provides a solid but yet soft area for the striker / firing pin to hit. Been thinking about using hot glue, I have pencil erasers right now. |
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I dry fire a lot. Probably close to a hour a week. I'm working away from home right now and I don't have much to do during my down time. By the way, I use a empty case with the primer removed and the primer pocket filled with hot glue. It seems to hold up well and provides a solid but yet soft area for the striker / firing pin to hit. Been thinking about using hot glue, I have pencil erasers right now. It works pretty good. I just deprime, let the glue gun get good and hot, put a blob of hot glue in the primer pocket, then trim the blob with a razor blade. I have some of these snap caps that I've used for years. |
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Of all the years I have been reading and posting on online forums, I have never heard of any issues with a Glock a dry-fire related problems.
I currently have two Glock-22's. One is for carry and one is used mostly for dryfire practice and at the range for shooting practice. Even if I do break something, all the parts are extremely easy to replace. Just knowing with 100% confidence I can dry fire my glock all day long every day is half the reason I am a die-hard Glock lover! 
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I snap mine on an empty chamber a lot. I usuialy practice only letting the trigger up until it resets. Fire it, hold the trigger down and rack the slide, only let up until trigger reset, fire again. ETA HAHA page two  Me too pretty much the same routine.I dry fire almost eveyday switching one day with the 26 and the next the 17. |