judaspriest
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Has anyone been able to find usable snap caps in 22LR?
I don't have much experience with the caliber, but have heard that dry firing without a snap cap is really bad for all rimfire firearms, much more so than for the centerfires. So unless you carefully count your shots, you always end up dry-firing once per drum when you run out of ammo. An ideal solution would be some sort of a hold open on empty, but the 10/22 does not work this way because of its drum mags. So I always end up striking against an empty chamber at the end of each drum, which is supposed to be quite detrimental.
Also, the 10/22 does not seem to have a way to bring the hammer down without firing (to relieve the spring tension), something that a snap cap would also resolve.
Unfortunately, I could not find any commercial 22LR snapcaps. I bought the AZoom's 22LR, but when they arrived, they turned out to be "dummy rounds" not designed for repeated dry-firing. So far, I've been using spent shells which does the job, but is a real nuisance (they wouldn't feed from the mag and to insert them into the chamber, I need to use small pliers).
Has anyone found a more convenient solution to this?
Thanks,
JP
I don't have much experience with the caliber, but have heard that dry firing without a snap cap is really bad for all rimfire firearms, much more so than for the centerfires. So unless you carefully count your shots, you always end up dry-firing once per drum when you run out of ammo. An ideal solution would be some sort of a hold open on empty, but the 10/22 does not work this way because of its drum mags. So I always end up striking against an empty chamber at the end of each drum, which is supposed to be quite detrimental.
Also, the 10/22 does not seem to have a way to bring the hammer down without firing (to relieve the spring tension), something that a snap cap would also resolve.
Unfortunately, I could not find any commercial 22LR snapcaps. I bought the AZoom's 22LR, but when they arrived, they turned out to be "dummy rounds" not designed for repeated dry-firing. So far, I've been using spent shells which does the job, but is a real nuisance (they wouldn't feed from the mag and to insert them into the chamber, I need to use small pliers).
Has anyone found a more convenient solution to this?
Thanks,
JP