Dummy rounds to dry fire a 22lr?

[Jax]

All,

I have a .22lr semi-auto pistol I'd like to dry fire for practice and to smooth out the trigger like I've done on my center-fire pistols.

However, I cannot find snap caps or dummy rounds in .22lr...

What do you use to prevent damage to the firing pin?

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[Penforhire]

If it is a Ruger, like my Mark II, it has a built-in firing pin stop that allows dry firing. Can't speak to other brands but before I learned this I just collected a bunch of empty brass and hand-inserted.

 

[DougCxx]

With some pistols it hardly matters, you might mention what the brands/models concerned are. Unless you are planning to dry-fire it thousands and thousands of shots, and then I would ask you "Why?"....
But anyway,
--they do:
http://www.1above.com/snapcaps.htm
....
-but I have never seen one IRL, and most people I have known just grabbed a few spent cases and used that for closing and firing the gun after cleaning.
?
....I haven't ever seen one, but I would wonder how rimfire snap caps would work, besides just being hard plastic--there's no room for a springy-type mechanism like in the centerfire snap caps....
~

 

[Jax]

Thanks for the input!

Penforhire:

I was not aware that some manufacturers put in widgets like that so you can dry fire the weapon. That's pretty cool.

DougCxx:

I have two, a Browning Buck Mark and a S&W 41. I have been warned about dry firing both of them.

Thanks for the link. I've ordered some. They're just what I needed...

I only hope they work. I don't want to destroy my 41 that way.

 

[444]

I bought some snap caps in .22LR. The ones I bought are not of the same quality as the centerfire snap caps. They were just red plastic. After moderate use the rims are all deformed.
I would just use expended cases for snap caps. They seem like they would accomplish the same thing and hold up a lot better.

 

[AlienSoul]

I am no expert by any means but I have always wondered why buy a snap cap at all? Doesn't an empty shell do the same thing? Somebody tell me I am way off on this and there is a reason I should invest in these things.

Josh Gesler

 

[larryw]

For the rare 22s I own that I can't dryfire, I'm with AlienSoul: use spent cases fired from that gun. Just give it a small twist after a couple firings.