Dry Firing with Plastic Safety Disk in revolver?

[rhatimi]

I just got a new Ruger GP-100 Revolver the other day and was reading the manual, and it stated not to dry fire the revolver with the plastic safety disk in it. however upon closer inspection I found there to be a couple of light indentitions made on the safety disk from the firing pin. Could this in any way have damaged the firing pin???
-Thanks

 

[cyclopsshooter]

probably not, dry firing at the disk breaks the disk

 

[rcmodel]

If dry-firing without the disk, or live firing 35,000 PSI loads doesn't break the firing pin, which it doesn't.

I seems very unlikely a piece of plastic is going to even get it's attention, let alone damage it.

rc

 

[Pistol Toter]

It seems to me that if you read the booklet supplied with your new gun that it explicitly say not to dry fire the gun on the plastic disc. I don't have my book in front of me, but I remember that. Suggest you read the book!

 

[Virginian]

I cannot tell a lie. I read the words. I thought to myself, "That's ridiculous." I always fire with the disc in there, just to prove I can. There is a sign in town; "No stopping on tracks", by the RR tracks just ahead of a stoplight. I can see a mile both ways. If there is no one in front of me, I always stop on the tracks. Just one of several character flaws.

 

[Drail]

Throw the yellow disc away and dry fire all you want. Or buy some snap caps if it makes you feel better.

 

[Pistol Toter]

If there is no one in front of me, I always stop on the tracks. Just one of several character flaws

:banghead:

There is a reason that commercial vehicle do not change gears while crossing RR crossings. If for some reason, any reason what so ever that the truck / bus can't be put back into gear, it is not sitting across the tracks; so that in the event a train comes along and hour latter, the train doesn't hit the commercial vehicle.

Now lets think forward; what if you stop on the track and can't get your car to move, for ever the reason. Hmmmm

Peanut on the Railroad track,
Heart all a-flutter.
Along comes the choo choo train,
Peanut Butter.

In your case; it will be Virginian Butter or Virginian'a Auto Butter or both. What a hoot!! Character Flaw indeed.

 

[Virginian]

It is on enough of a hill that if the engine died all I would have to do is push the clutch in and coast free. I know why they put the sign up. I just object to the dumbing down of America any more than it already is. We keep trying to make everything idiot proof, and all we do is end up with more idiots.

 

[Pistol Toter]

We keep trying to make everything idiot proof, and all we do is end up with more idiots.

I agree with you on that point, sir!!!

 

[Travis Bickle]

Could this in any way have damaged the firing pin???

I doubt it. From a parts-breakage standpoint, it's perfectly safe to dry fire Rugers even without the safety disc. Think of how much more wear and tear is done to metal parts from colliding with other metal parts than is done to them from colliding with plastic.

 

[danbrew]

There is a sign in town; "No stopping on tracks", by the RR tracks just ahead of a stoplight. I can see a mile both ways. If there is no one in front of me, I always stop on the tracks. Just one of several character flaws.

Classic. I gotta remember to start doing that too.

 

[32 Magnum]

Dry firing with the plastic disc in place, often done, will eventually bend the hand, throwing the timing off.

 

[goodtime]

The thing is, the plastic disk could eventually shatter, and small pieces could get lodged in the mechanism of the gun.
And if it weren't for the warning printed on the barrel advising you to read the manual, (adulterating the appearance of the gun) you might succesfully sue for any injurious complications that would cause.

 

[Virginian]

Okay, I give up, how is that flat plastic disk going to possibly bend the hand? And it might do it in minus 50 degree weather, but otherwise I sure don't see that disk shattering.

 

[goodtime]

Years ago, I actually shattered one of those disks by dryfiring with it in place . . . BUT, it was a Taurus. I just looked at one in a ruger box laying around and yeah, it feels less brittle than the taurus disk. I guess Ruger even makes their plastic throw-away disks tougher than others!

 

[texagun]

I've shattered one of the yellow disks in a Vaquero after about 50 dry-fires. It was a mess getting the little pieces of plastic out of the gun. I would advise against it.

 

[MortalWombat]

It seems to me that if you read the booklet supplied with your new gun that it explicitly say not to dry fire the gun on the plastic disc. I don't have my book in front of me, but I remember that. Suggest you read the book!

And if you read the very first sentence in his post, he actually said he did read the manual about not dry firing with the disk in. Someone else before him (at the factory or maybe at a gun store) had apparently dry fired it with the disk in it.

 

[SwampWolf]

That's right, MortalWombat. I kept wondering when (or if) the op would ever make that point. Good that you finally did.