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Post by ozark on Oct 18, 2009 12:31:08 GMT -5
Dry firiing is a good exercise for developing markanship skills but there should be some precautions followed to insure that you are not damaging your rifle. Always have a prefired cartridge case in the chamber or primer pocket for the firing pin to contact. Expecially so if it is a rim fire type cartridge. The rimfire uses the chamber barrel face as an anvil for the firing pin to crush the rim against. Without a dummy cartridge or empty case the firing pin soon indents the face of the barrel resulting in eliminating the anvil. When this occurs the firing pin simply bends the cartridge rim into the indentation and a misfire occurs.
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Post by deadon on Jan 18, 2010 18:59:07 GMT -5
Dry fire,Dry fire, Dry fire,That is the only way to consumate the marriage to your rifle. Just my two
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Post by rjhans53 on Jan 21, 2010 18:46:59 GMT -5
On their centerfires ruger recommends dry firing (although they do make a lawyer statement to make sure the gun is unloaded first). Rimfires are a different deal and by my understanding ozark is right you can mess up your gun by dry firing them without a "dummy" round in them
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Post by whelenman on Jan 22, 2010 9:15:20 GMT -5
Regarding the firing of rimfires.....some can be safely dry fired and others cannot......it depends on the design. For safetys sake don't try it unless you have it from the manufacturer. Besides that ........rimfire ammunition is cheap enough to do live fire practice instead.
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