yhtomit
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I will admit it: I have dry fired my Cz-75 a few times (literally just a few); the other guns I own, I've been assured by multiple sources are OK to dry fire, but then I had guilt pangs and googled a bit.
Whaddya know, a TFL thread tells me that I'm not the only one with a question about whether the Cx-75's OK to dry fire, and as usual there are strong opinions on both sides, each of which is 100 percent indisputably right
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86700
However, in the interest of straying on the side of caution, I decided to use a snap cap, in no small part because I found that one was packaged right in with the gun's second magazine. (It's black, with a green "primer" thing -- and came with quite a few primer-thing spares.)
However, I feel a bit foolish for not knowing how to use it. This is what I did: locked back the slide; loaded the snap cap into the (of course otherwise empty) magazine; thumbed down the slide release to chamber the snap cap.
However, in three attempts at doing this, each time the gun failed to enter battery -- the slide hung up about 1/3-1/2" back. (I should have taken a picture, might make this more visually obvious, but I failed to, and now I'm back at school, not near the gun to repeat this sequence.)
Should I feed a snap cap into the chamber through the ejection port rather than via the magazine? Does it sound like I have a defective snap cap? (Is there such a thing? ) I compared it for overall length to a fresh factory 9mm round, and at least from the base of the round to the shoulder it's the same -- this is a 9mm snap cap, and it came with the gun.
Why all the green "primers" -- am I likely to pop them out of the rear of the snap cap? I dunno if the Dummies books yet have a "Guns for Dummies," but if they do, I hope it covers this
I'd like to avoid hurting my firing pin through excessive dry firing, and if that's just an old wives tale I guess it won't hurt me to use snap caps anyhow.
Wisdom appreciated -- ignorance like mine comes from having parents uninterested in guns
timothy
Whaddya know, a TFL thread tells me that I'm not the only one with a question about whether the Cx-75's OK to dry fire, and as usual there are strong opinions on both sides, each of which is 100 percent indisputably right
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86700
However, in the interest of straying on the side of caution, I decided to use a snap cap, in no small part because I found that one was packaged right in with the gun's second magazine. (It's black, with a green "primer" thing -- and came with quite a few primer-thing spares.)
However, I feel a bit foolish for not knowing how to use it. This is what I did: locked back the slide; loaded the snap cap into the (of course otherwise empty) magazine; thumbed down the slide release to chamber the snap cap.
However, in three attempts at doing this, each time the gun failed to enter battery -- the slide hung up about 1/3-1/2" back. (I should have taken a picture, might make this more visually obvious, but I failed to, and now I'm back at school, not near the gun to repeat this sequence.)
Should I feed a snap cap into the chamber through the ejection port rather than via the magazine? Does it sound like I have a defective snap cap? (Is there such a thing? ) I compared it for overall length to a fresh factory 9mm round, and at least from the base of the round to the shoulder it's the same -- this is a 9mm snap cap, and it came with the gun.
Why all the green "primers" -- am I likely to pop them out of the rear of the snap cap? I dunno if the Dummies books yet have a "Guns for Dummies," but if they do, I hope it covers this
I'd like to avoid hurting my firing pin through excessive dry firing, and if that's just an old wives tale I guess it won't hurt me to use snap caps anyhow.
Wisdom appreciated -- ignorance like mine comes from having parents uninterested in guns
timothy