Dry Firing

[Donmc01]

I dry fire my Shield 9mm everyday at least 200 times and have done so for about a month. Is this beneficial or a waste of time? I do 25 at a time and move a round to the right. 8 rounds in the pile = 200.

Thanks/Don

 

[3hounds]

There's dry firing and then there's excessive dry firing.

Snap caps are cheap.

Not sure what you mean 8 rounds in a pile ?

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[JPriest]

Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect (not that I am anywhere close). I would say that the quality of any practice, even dry firing, is more important than the quantity.

Have you noticed improvement when you go to the range? That should pretty much tell you if its been beneficial.

Also, for the sake of safety, it is probably best to be dry firing in an area or room where there are no live rounds anywhere near the gun.

 

[S&WForty]

Not sure what you mean 8 rounds in a pile ?

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I think he's just using them a counting devices. Dry fire 25 times, move a round to a specific spot. 25 more dry fires, move another round to the special place and so on. I had to read it 3 times to get to that assumption.

Have you noticed improvement when you go to the range? That should pretty much tell you if its been beneficial.

Also, for the sake of safety, it is probably best to be dry firing in an area or room where there are no live rounds anywhere near the gun.

I don't know how many dry fires my Shield has but I think it has helped the trigger loosen up a little, but I am confident it has helped my trigger pull at the range.

And I totally agree with that statement to put the ammo in another room when dry-firing.

I also suggest (in case you(original poster) aren't doing this already) to only dry-fire "with intent." Make every dry-fire count. Pretend you are really firing the pistol. I was anxious to loosen up my trigger, so I was laying on the couch just clicking away. I realized I was forming a potential bad habit of casually pulling the trigger. I stopped doing that and now line up my sights on something with every dry fire pull.

 

[Gyrene6891]

+1 S&WForty, In the Marine Corps I learned when in a stressful situation you will always fall back on your training, so train with a purpose and when a situation arises you will not have to remember what to do.

 

[agksimon]

When you dry fire a your M&P, the shoulder of the striker makes contact with the front of the channel it rides in. EXCESSIVE dry firing without a snap cap can work harden and crystallize the striker and cause it to break. S&W went to a stainless striker a few years ago for this very reason.

 

[3hounds]

When you dry fire a your M&P, the shoulder of the striker makes contact with the front of the channel it rides in. EXCESSIVE dry firing without a snap cap can work harden and crystallize the striker and cause it to break. S&W went to a stainless striker a few years ago for this very reason.

Yes the originals was made out of carbon steel and they broke easily.

If you have a black one it's the old style carbon steel.

If it's silver your ok, but I would still use snap caps.

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[dullh]

Dry fire practice, is never a waste of time.

 

[MP9cBilly]

During dry fire, practice trigger control... try to pull and break the trigger without the muzzle moving at all. A laser helps keep track of that.

 

[Dmartin]

A laserlyte cartridge and dry firing a couple 100 times a day for a month increased my accuracy hitting a 3x5 card at 7 yds by 20%. The dry firing alos helped smooth out most of the grit in my M&P trigger.

I now practice with the laser shooting at a business card at 10 yds.