[Lone Star]

Running snap caps through a pump gun is a good way to ruin them. (The caps.)

Can I dry-fire my recent Remington M870 Wingmaster occasionally, to stay familiar with pointing and operating it? I have in mind doing this maybe 10-15 times a month.

Thanks,

Lone Star

[HSMITH]

I have many thousands of dry fires on my 870's. I have never hurt one, not even with several hundred per day for months on end.

[9mmMike]

I used to dry-fire the snot out of my 870's. The only one that I ever had a broken firing pin on was the one I bought that way. The pin was likely almost fifty years old though.
Mike

[MrMurphy]

I've dry fired various 870s (including my own) thousands of time without a problem. Dry fire away.

[sm]

Clickety Clack - Snap...Clickety Clack - Snap...Clicke...

[Dave McCracken]

In all this time I've run across ONE busted firing pin. In the long lost days of yore, the buzz was that 870s dryfired in very cold conditions would do this. Like I said, seen it happen once, back in the 80s.

Snap away.

[MrTuffPaws]

I am glad this thread came up. I was wondering the same thing, and my snapcaps are about dead.

[simmonsguns]

the older guns with the full coil firing pin springs were prone to breaking the springs when dry fired,at least thats what we were told in armorers school years ago,it is why they(rem) went to the interupted coil spring,this is built to take the shock of dry firing where the spring won't colapse on it self.in all the police guns i have worked on,i have replaced one broken firing pin spring,all the firing pins have been fine.from remmington,it is ok to dry fire these,they are designed that way.

[Lone Star]

Thanks, everyone!

Lone Star

[9mmMike]

the older guns with the full coil firing pin springs were prone to breaking the springs when dry fired,at least thats what we were told in armorers school years ago,...

Yippee!!!!!!!

This is the info that I needed to 'splain why the (broken) firing pin & spring that I replaced in my newly aquired '55 Wingmaster was different that the old one. Especially the springs which, as simmonsguns says, were full coil versus what looks like two springs stuck together.
Very good info.

Thanks a ton!

Mike