Snap Caps for .22

[cavman]

Just replacing (break in ~a month ago) my SW M41 .22 on Sunday (the State of Maryland made me watch a simpleton safety video for 45mins and wait a week) .

My Ruger III Hunter (also now gone) could be dry-fired but not the Model 41.

Anyways,I have seen packs of plastic Snaps for about $4/dozen, and ~$7-8/ half dozen if aluminum.

Are all snap caps created equal? Is twice the price for half as many aluminum caps better than 4x the amount of plastic ones?

thanks
cavman

[R. Deckard]

I have been looking for "snap caps" for my Sig Trailside. The only ones I can find are the aluminum ones but if you read the package it says they are not ment for "dry firing" they are only meant for training purposes of safely learning how to load and unload the gun. If you dry fire the aluminum caps, they do dimple from the firing pin strike and are only good for maybe 5 or 6 dry fires. Let me know where you found the plastic ones, online?

[cavman]

http://www.cowboyneeds.com/A799.html


http://www.traditionsfirearms.com/eShop/10Browse.asp?Category=Accessories%3ASnap+Caps

http://www.gunaccessories.com/A-Zoom/default.asp

So, the first one says it is "ok" for some dry fire.
The second one makes no "qualification". It simply says that its product is good for dry-fire. And the third one is the aluminum one

[bdutton]

I use the a-zoom and they are specifically designed to function like regular ammo and be used hundreds of times for dry fire.

The plastic snap caps are crap too. a model 41 or ruger target pistol are very hard to hand load a snap cap into the chamber whereas the aluminum ones can be loaded into a magazine and all you need to do is cycle to slide and dry fire until the mag is empty.

[cavman]

That's good to know. I checked however, and every other internet source that I could find, all said that the A-Zoom were not Snap Caps and were merely Dummies.

Do you think that that website, (http://www.gunaccessories.com/A-Zoom/default.asp) is the only one that sells "real" snapcaps and all the others don't?