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I fit a piece of eraser in primer pockets of brass for several of my riifles, and dry fire whenever.....no harm done as I can see. Been doing this for years.

If you make up enough snap cap rounds you can load the magazine and practice cycling the action without bringing the rifle down from your shoulder.
Did that a bunch off of "sticks" practicing for Africa.

Daily

All the time with my centerfires. No snap caps.

All the time. Great trigger control practice.

[quote=Blueboy]I fit a piece of eraser in primer pockets of brass for several of my riifles, and dry fire whenever.....no harm done as I can see. Been doing this for years.[/quote

Great idea

Also a great idea.

Dry firing is great! Very little meat damage and no crippled game to track down! Only problem is no blood trail to follow!

Since you're pretend hunting, you can fill your pack with rocks and do some pretend packing out.

I use two 25 pound bags of rice in place of the rocks, much easier on my pack!😁

Most of my guns are safe to dry fire, but I still like to use snap caps to practice running the actions. .22s get a #12 screw anchor that works as well as the plastic snap caps at a fraction of the cost. Don’t extract though.

I purchase snap caps in relevant cartridge size and use them as they are a different colour (brown) to live rounds and easily identifiable, I do not so much use them for dry firing so much as to run through magazines when introducing new shooters or working on rifles.

I don't really dry fire much.

Thats a practice for Idiots..

I dry fire my handgun daily. My hunting rifle several times a week.

My granddad " dry fired" his 30-06 while aiming out the upstairs bedroom window. Unfortunately, he had neglected to check the chamber first. Fortunately, he lived out in the middle of nowhere, so no harm was done other than a broken window and the lengthy stay in the doghouse imposed by grandma, who was downstairs in the kitchen at the time.

I check and double check every single time, making absolutely certain the gun is not loaded before dry fire practice.

Ah. So you do it all the time then?

What a stupid statement. The best shots in the world dry fire constantly. Along with cross training. But you knew that....

You're reminding me of those fumes you inhaled while smelting batteries.

I never dry fire my guns, but I do shoot a pellet gun almost every day. And at least a couple of times a week I'll see a varmint or two to shoot while checking the cattle.

Tikka owners manual says always use a snap cap