is dry firing a gbb alright?

[Guest]

I never dry fire any of my airsoft guns, But I have a long garden so it’s easy for me.

 

[proffrink]

He was clearly replying to the original topic of dry firing, NOT suggesting we disregard all firearm rules.

The "wive's tale" is referring to whether you keep hammers cocked vs dry firing when storing a gun and which is doing more damage in the long term and whether snap caps are useful blah blah blah.

Well fair enough that you've spotted it correctly, but if you scroll up you can see I wasn't the only one who interpreted it that way so I'm not sure it was 100% clear. This is why the quote button exists - otherwise it's assumed you're replying to the post just before/couple of posts just before your own. I believe the replies were coming in fast though and that tends to make it a mess when multiple people are typing at the same time.

Reading it back now with the context provided it seems obvious to me too, but given the nature of the OP I hope you can sympathise with me (and at least one other) thinking it's probably not the best idea to be giving your little brother an airsoft gun to run about with - irrespective of whether dry-firing is going to cause an issue. Believe me - this isn't the fist time we've seen this kind of idiocy and every time the excuse is something along the lines of 'it's not a real gun'. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[MisterG]

I was replying to the OP, but you're right should have made use of the quote function.

Cheers

G

 

[Giraffe]

Well fair enough that you've spotted it correctly, but if you scroll up you can see I wasn't the only one who interpreted it that way so I'm not sure it was 100% clear. This is why the quote button exists - otherwise it's assumed you're replying to the post just before/couple of posts just before your own. I believe the replies were coming in fast though and that tends to make it a mess when multiple people are typing at the same time.

Reading it back now with the context provided it seems obvious to me too, but given the nature of the OP I hope you can sympathise with me (and at least one other) thinking it's probably not the best idea to be giving your little brother an airsoft gun to run about with - irrespective of whether dry-firing is going to cause an issue. Believe me - this isn't the fist time we've seen this kind of idiocy and every time the excuse is something along the lines of 'it's not a real gun'. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Yeah I only posted because I saw a couple of people weren't sure. I agree with your second point too - running about dry firing isn't a super good habit. ???

 

[Defender90]

He was clearly replying to the original topic of dry firing, NOT suggesting we disregard all firearm rules.

The "wive's tale" is referring to whether you keep hammers cocked vs dry firing when storing a gun and which is doing more damage in the long term and whether snap caps are useful blah blah blah.

All's well that ends well I guess.

As to the other issues discussed I too would tend to discourage the little brother from fiddling with the airsoft, depends on how much younger he is and how mature but i only allow kids to shoot my airsofts under my supervision (while trying to install some elementary rules of gun safety into them). It could so easily be misconstrued, and nowadays there are many people willing and eager to "misconstrue" anything gun shaped.

As to the "old wives tale" I do try to keep all my springs released and not under tension on my GBBRs as I do on the real shotguns in the cabinet, I figure it's even more important with airsofts as the quality of build and materials is so much lower. I use snap caps, on the airsoft it's unnecessary.

I was brought up that pulling the trigger on an empty chamber while practicing ones aim etc indoors is bad practice as the firing pin has nothing to absorb the impact and absorb against although I  seem to remember seeing or reading something modern that suggests it has no basis in fact. Nevertheless snap caps are popular for that activity as it never does any harm to take care, and they're useful for their main purpose storage too of course. As airsofts don't have firing pins it's a purely academic point here.

Generally though the habit of treating all guns as if they're loaded is sound, even practicing aim and mounting the gun to the shoulder is done in a safe direction and never pointed at a person.

 

[Duff]

I wouldn't of thought dry firing a RIF would put any more pressure on it than if a bb was going through it as well.