dry fire a CZ 527?

[roscoe]

I just bought my daughter a CZ 527 Youth Carbine (.223) for her birthday, and she dry-fired it a few times. I had always thought that modern rifles were OK for dry-firing, but my brother said that he had a friend with a different modern Mauser-action rifle had broken his pin dry-firing (the CZ is a small Mauser-action). For now, no dry-firing.

Does anyone know if dry-firing is damaging the firing pin?

 

[TN Outlaw]

Ill say this fwiw, i have 3 CZ 527's and have dry fired them lots and lots of times each with no failure to any of them. You may break yours the next time you dry fire it, but im saying i havent.

The firing pin is not hitting anything, though ive heard people more knowledgeable than i saying the impact and sudden stop can crystallize the pin and cause it to fail but i feel its designed to hold up to it. I dont dry fire rimfire or revolvers with the firing pin on the hammer (at least not repeatedly) but ive dry fired all my guns lots of times each and have never had a problem thus far. YMMV

 

[sirgilligan]

I have dried fired mine a few times, that is every time I have cleaned it, and when showing off the set trigger to those interested. Mine hasn't had any issues.

I too have heard that the firing pin can become brittle because it had nothing to strike, yet I find that hard to believe. The firing pin had to hit something somewhere or it would fly out the end, right? So, the shape of the firing pin stops it from coming out of the bolt when there is no primer to strike. I have beat a few nails and other metal objects half to death with a hammer and have never seen their molecular structure change and suddenly shatter.

 

[Robert]

Eh, things break. But as a general rule, drying firing center fire rifles will not hurt them.

 

[Panzerschwein]

Good on ya, excellent daughter rifle!

 

[Olympus]

Dry fire away. You won't hurt that rifle. If for some reason you do, CZ will take care you.

 

[Nature Boy]

I'm with cooldill. Happy for you and your daughter. Dry fire away.

Crystallizing firing pins sounds like an entertaining subject, but probably in the "fantasy thread" category

 

[roscoe]

Thanks - yes, it is more beautiful than any rifle I own, and at the gun shop where I ordered it, the counter guys were drooling over it. It is not really bigger than the .22 she shoots regularly.

 

[armoredman]

I've dry fired my CZ 527M for years with no ill effect.

 

[bluzman]

Ill say this fwiw, i have 3 CZ 527's and have dry fired them lots and lots of times each with no failure to any of them. You may break yours the next time you dry fire it, but im saying i havent.

The firing pin is not hitting anything, though ive heard people more knowledgeable than i saying the impact and sudden stop can crystallize the pin and cause it to fail but i feel its designed to hold up to it. I dont dry fire rimfire or revolvers with the firing pin on the hammer (at least not repeatedly) but ive dry fired all my guns lots of times each and have never had a problem thus far. YMMV

I agree based on my experience with mine.

 

[highlander 5]

You might weaken the firing pin spring but that's an easy fix. I have to admit taking the bolt completely apart is a snap on the CZ 527s. I dry field my load of times with no breakage of any kind.

 

[fpgt72]

I would say go for it....but if it really worries you get a snap cap...they are cheap enough.