Dry-fire gun?

id say its a waste of time and money. Its a totally different trigger from your gun and will gain you nothing. get some snap caps and dry fire your own weapon and improve your skills with it.

Eww..don't get that thing.

I second the advice of j1979. And I highly recommend Tipton snap caps, or any other snap caps that have the springs inside of them. They will last longer. They are actually pretty cheap also. For the price of that "dry-fire gun" you can buy at least a year's supply of them.

Snap caps aren't too expensive??

From what I remember, the last snap cap I purchased was $2. With that in mind, if you can't afford that, snap caps are too expensive.

Considering that you can use them over and over and over they are really not expensive, yet allow you to practice with whatever gun you use without damaging it. Search for tipton snap caps here and check out what I buy: http://www.midwayusa.com/

I hate pretending...

You can learn more from 10 rounds downrange than you'll learn from 1,000 rounds of dry firing.

OTOH, if you need to build muscle memory, dry firing can be useful, until you learn how to shoot.

Dry-firing is damn good practice - helps eliminate flinching and shows you what you're doing with your hands while pulling the trigger - made a world of difference in my pistol shooting.

As far as snap caps go, just get yourself some expended and resized cases with the primers popped out and glue in a chunk of pencil eraser in the primer pocket...............it'll last for years.

For the price of that thing, you could just take a trip to your local gun store....and buy like at least a full clip worth of snap caps...and that way you can get used to your own gun in the process, instead of having a possibly shoddy plastic "gun".

It is better than not dry firing at all, but not nearly as good as dry firing with your own pistol.

When you dry fire your pistol, you learn the idiosyncrasies of it's grip and trigger as well as break the trigger in. You won't get any of that from this piece of plastic.

When I was dry firing my M&P I noticed a slight flinch to the right when the trigger dropped. This didn't happen with other guns and it wasn't me flinching so much as it was the effect of my grip being affected when the trigger broke. I was able to adjust my grip and eliminate this...all from dry firing.