Snap Caps, Anyone use them?

pancuronium

Just a quick one on Snap caps do any of you ever use them? Metal, plastic? Good idea, Bad idea..........................

It wasn't me!

pancuronium wrote: »

Just a quick one on Snap caps do any of you ever use them? Metal, plastic? Good idea, Bad idea..........................

Dry firing without them can damage your firing pin and, in a rimfire, the mouth of your chamber. Definitely worth having them, and dry firing is a great way to improve your shooting, so yeah, go for it.

.50 (MOA)

I use them to relax the springs before i put the gun into the cabinet.
The engineer in me says it would be a good idea. although the gun is 20 years old and i've only been using them for the past 3 since i took over the use of it.
And now i've started getting misfires on the top barrel, took it to my gunsmith and he took a look but he couldn't see anything wrong, just old age i thought but, the bottom barrel has fired alot more shots than the top so it should be the one giving bother- logically.

Any way i digress, they're a good idea to relax the springs for storage, without risking damaging the firing pin, the ones i use are clear plastic with a brass head where the primer should be.

ormondprop

ya i use them aswell to relax the springs, if your using them in a shotgun with ejectors you'd be better off splashing out on the brass or steel ones as my father went through 2 or 3 pairs of plastic ones before i got him bisley brass ones on ebay, you'll pick them up fairly cheap online, i got them for my hornet aswell

Collioure

Do snap caps not move the strain onto the ejector springs...no????

.50 (MOA)

Collioure

Do snap caps not move the strain onto the ejector springs...no????



When the gun is closed the ejector springs are compressed, if you wanted to relax these too; you'd need to use the snap caps, dismantle the gun, release the ejectors and then put the gun in the safe in separate pieces. this is how it would work on my gun (a lincoln) and i assume all other makes too, but i have seen some quite elaborate ejector mechanisms on other guns so i'm not sure how easy it would be to do.

gofaster_s13

Not a fan of them, when I open a gun I prefer to see an empty chamber.

pullandbang

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

Not a fan of them, when I open a gun I prefer to see an empty chamber.

Have to agree - open and empty is the way.

The senior CPSA coaches also don't recommend them especially in modern guns as they serve no benefit. They do however use them in coaching beginners just to give them a feel for pulling the trigger while dry firing at a moving target.

Story Man

As a shooting instructor I would never use snap caps.

SM

LOUTHSHOOTER

Story Man wrote: »

As a shooting instructor I would never use snap caps.

SM

Do they do more harm than good sm and if so why

Story Man

In my opinion and in the opinion of other professional instructors, the tubes should be clear for everyone ot see they are clear.

When a gun is being inserted into a slip it should be broken closed within the slip. When it is removed from a slip it should be broken before coming out of the slip. In this way everyone knows the gun is unloaded.

In my opinion!

SM

pancuronium

Was thinking about getting a set myself but have to agree with gofaster s13 & pull&bang i like to see an empty chamber when i open the gun! think i'll give it a miss thanks anyway