Can you dry fire 1911 how to#

One being the dry fire caps.the firing pin on ALL centerfire (not rimfire, but applicable in 99% of those cases too) arms should function to where the limiting factor of the pins travel is derived from the mechanical limitations of the gun.not hitting the extremely soft material that the primer is made of. Many of the other classical arguments that are made with respect to dry firing centerfire arms simply are not true. One would think that a magazine or company in the history of modern firearms would 100% dispel the facts/myths regarding dry firing.nobody really has done this in a valid manner that brings consensus to where it is no longer bickered about. TGO Davids argument of dropping the slide on an empty 1911chamber may be valid.However it is gradual enough that there is not consensus enough to actually prove it in a material way. I'm going to go with the recommendations of people like Hilton Yam, Chuck Rogers, Bill Wilson, etc.

Can you dry fire 1911 how to#

What agenda could they possibly have in telling you how to get maximum life expectancy out of your weapon? These guys get paid big money to work on 1911s, so it benefits them for you to dick up your gun and need to have it repaired. You have a lot of very reputable high-end gunsmiths who specialize in the 1911 on the record as saying dropping the slide on a 1911 with an empty chamber is not good for it.

Hopefully one of you guys telling him to just go ahead and abuse it will be there to help pay for a new extractor, trigger job or other repairs down the road when it starts to act up on him. Like I said, it probably won't hurt it immediately but it won't be good for it over the long haul. The 1911 is a little different of an animal. Shooting the thing is way more violent than playing with it.Īctually the Glock is just fine for dry firing and/or dropping the slide on.