Trigger break-in with Snap Caps

[Keith4001r]

And again, more good advise. Y'all are a bunch of fart smellers, I mean smart fellers!

Thanks again.

[bre346]

I had a Springfield XD-9 once. I kept dry-firing it, with a snap-cap, and I could feel it get better and better 'til at about 100 rounds it was as good as it was going to get. I kinda wish I had kept it. Heckuva gun.

Right now I have a snap-cap in my 24/7. The weather is too poor to go shootin' but the TV has some really good targets. Bang-bang, you're dead.

[GreenWolf70]

LOL, when I was a kid working in the back of my father's TV shop, we had a guy come in with a TV that had a bullet hole through the picture tube. This guy would put on his Colt SA rig every night and draw against Marshall Dillion on Gun Smoke (for those of you who can remember that it always opened with Marshall Dillion drawing in a gun fight). So after years of doing this he finally beat Marshall Dillion to the draw and was so excited he shot his TV. Funniest thing I ever saw.

[downrange]

My feelings toward snap caps are that they do more for "shooter" break-in than for trigger break-in. I have snap caps for every firearm I own and use them extensively for learning how a trigger breaks, fire-reload-fire, and function from failure drills. It will also build your hand and forearm muscles while encouraging hand-eye coordination.

Live fire does more for smoothing up the action of a firearm than just using snap caps, however, most firearms will benefit from its owner dry-firing during a favorite TV program.

Rimfires and revolvers that have the firing pin on the hammer are still a NO-GO, but most of today's firearms are safe to dry-fire, even without snap caps. With that in mind, I still don't dry-fire without 'em. Old habits die hard and I've already invested the money in snap caps. I can't or won't keep track of every single firearm that needs 'em and the ones that don't. They all get snap caps. I see it as cheap insurance.

The Taurus PT92/99 series is a good one. I think you'll be very happy with your purchase. They are overbuilt for caliber, offer little recoil, are surprisingly accurate and I much prefer the frame mounted safety decocker over Beretta's slide mounted safety. Except for the grip sleeves losing their threads, I can't think of any other repair we've done on them. Don't over tighten your grip screws and you won't need to worry about it. If you do strip the threads, it's a very easy and cheap repair.

I have my own theories on what proper trigger break-in entails, but I'll save that for another post.

[GreenWolf70]

Since I also reload, I make my own snap caps.

[coltlover]

I agree. Shoot the piss out of it!

[7624452]

I agree in principle, but I get a lot of good practice with snap caps in revolvers. If I were in a place where I could fire off the back porch I would have no need for them.