Rimfire 22lr Revolver safe to dry fire?

[h4344]

Okay so first off I understand that dry firing any rimfire firearm is a bad idea and could cause damage. In this case I was wondering about a specific part on my cylinder. With the indents highlighted in the picture below would the striking hammer still impact the empty space or would it stop before then?

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[KKG]

Several Companies make "Snap Caps" for the .22 Rimfire. I would recommend the purchase of enough to fill the Revolver. This is one of the better safe than sorry type of things.

 

[jbett98]

Go to Home Depot and buy a box of yellow plastic wall anchors. They fit perfectly in a .22 caliber chamber.
Snap away for pennies. Under $4.00 for a hundred count box.

 

[Mikej]

DOH! When I first saw that i thought it was something else.



Good idea. I'd heard that before and forgot. I'll have to go down to the hardware store and pick up a couple/three.

 

[Velzey]

Don't do it, even tho there is clearance it's still hard on the hammer. Where the hammer actually makes contact with the frame.

 

[Mikej]

Don't do it, even tho there is clearance it's still hard on the hammer. Where the hammer actually makes contact with the frame.

You're talking dry fire without the anchor, right?

 

[Velzey]

You're talking dry fire without the anchor, right?

Correct.
Put snap caps in place or drywall anchors and snap away

 

[joken]

What about guns with a transfer bar?

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

What about guns with a transfer bar?

I have dry fired my ruger single six thousands of times and it still works perfectly.

 

[Capn Jack]

Yellow wall anchors.
Another good reason to contribute to this site.
I'll pick some up today......How do they group?

 

[KKG]

Some Rimfire Revolvers are better engineered than others. Ruger, Smith and Wesson and Colt all come to mind. But, at the recommendation of All Three, I have been using "Real" Snap Caps for many years. I've also picked up a number of Rimfire Firearms from people who couldn't be bothered. I've also passed up a few that had been "Fixed" using the wrong tools. With the right tools it's generally a simple fix. There's way too many Shadetree Gunmechanics who know just enough to to dangerous and they do lots and lots of damage to some very nice Firearms.

 

[UserNameInUse]

I don't dry fire rimfire guns very often. But when I do, i just use fired 22LR brass cases.

 

[Argonaut]

It doesn't seem to me that snap caps do much good after the first strike on rimfire. My shotgun snap caps have springs under the faux primer to cushion the firing pin strike. On a rimfire, once the snap cap is dented it won't work unless it is rotated to a different spot. The biggest problem I have seen with dry firing is with coarse ignited guns (guns with the firing pin attached to the hammer) I have seen them break under dry firing. Old break action coarse ignition shotguns were notorious for broken pins.