Pull trigger on fired-brass

[dashootist]

I've been reading how Taurus's owner manual states their revolver should not be dry fired. I get it, cheap metallurgy. But don't most revolver shooter pull the trigger after all the rounds have been fired and get a click on a fired-brass? Isn't this scenario the same as dry fire? For example, if you fire 6000 rounds in your revolver, then for each cylinder (6 rounds) you click once on an fired-brass. That's equivalent to 1000 dry fire. That's a lot of dry fire, even if you don't actually dry fire.

 

[Animal Mother]

I don't know about anyone else, but I almost never pull the trigger on a once fired chamber because I count my rounds. If I'm dry firing I use snap caps.

 

[451 Detonics]

Nope...I can count to six...even in competition. However dropping the hammer one a once fired case won't hurt it unless you do it repeatedly on the same fired case and destroy the primer.

 

[dashootist]

The main concern is the firing pin breaking. I'd think that, as far as the firing pin is concerned, dropping the hammer on a fired brass is equivalent to dry firing.

I've been taught to not count the rounds. Messes with your concentration.

 

[BCRider]

How is dropping the pin on fired brass the same as dry firing? The issue with dry firing is that the firing pin hits against the retention shoulder or bottoms out the return spring so it sees stopping forces that are sharp and "glass like". But hitting even a once fired primer is still going to deform the primer a little more. And the distance taken to deform the primer even that little bit extra is going to cushion the pin far more than a direct steel to steel hit which is the case when there's no empties in the cylinder.

 

[rcmodel]

+1
Snapping on a fired case once or twice is definitely not the same thing as dry-firing with nothing in front of the firing pin.

A fired case provides some "cushion" until it has been hit repeatedly and the dent becomes deep enough to allow the hammer / firing pin to finally bottom out steel against steel.

rc

 

[Claude Clay]

i use a fired case for one dry fire as RC has said.

as for concentration--some can count, some can learn to and some it just plain don't work for. you know which category you are in and what works best for you.
i count subconsciously and when instructing i count for my students. heck, I'll be counting for the people next to me; it is not a distraction or even requiring of me a conscious thought. though with them darn glocks--was that 17 shots he fired or only 16?

 

[MrBorland]

I've been taught to not count the rounds. Messes with your concentration.

ehh..no. For one thing, a "click" after the 6th round screams "goober". It's up there with flicking the cylinder closed and cocking the hammer for every shot.

More importantly, if you hear a click after the 6th round, it means you didn't reload when you needed to. A click in a match is valuable time lost, but in a defense situation, the mistake can be considerably costlier. Learn to shoot 6 - and only 6 - before a reload.

BTW, "awareness" is much better than "concentration". We can be "aware" of many things simultaneously, but can only "concentrate" on one. Lose your concentration, and you've lost everything.