Dry Firing?

[BrocLuno]

I dry fire and I use Snap Caps. Geez, why take a chance on beating on the pin stop or the hammer on an old one when the caps do the work? They last for ever and if you keep them with your cleaning kits, they are right there for a function test

 

[Guns and more]

Snap caps are cheap insurance.
A-zoom brand are aluminum, not plastic and seem to last forever.
I've seen plenty of modern guns that say "do not dry fire" for whatever reason.
I keep them in all my guns, then I'm covered.

 

[Skylerbone]

What's more important to consider when dryfiring without caps is not continuously releasing the slide on an empty chamber.

With regards to snap caps I don't own any but plan on buying a few sets for those ocasions that involve plunking down my hard earned on a potential purchase. I've read far too many posts of late lamenting the fact that pistol X or rifle Y was inoperable on its first outing. That's the sort of cheap insurance I'm interested in.

 

[ngnrd]

I was working on the trigger of my Savage 24 and was dry firing it to test the trigger work as I went. I had it broke down and out of its furniture, so using a snap-cap was impossible. After a while of doing the polish-fire shuffle, the firing pin broke and went flying across the room.

Yeah. I use snap-caps any time I can.