Wouldn't ya know it ...... ?

PJ Hardtack · July 13, 2015, 01:21:52 PM

I just sold a consecutively numbered pair of Taylor's 44-40 Remington conversions to a newbie pal. He knew I wasn't enamoured of them and wanted to match them up with his Marlin 44-40 rifle.

Recently he was dry-firing one of them with dummy rds and something broke .... sounds like it was the trigger/bolt spring, the same thing that happened to one of my wife's Uberti 'Stallions'.

He'll be contacting Taylor's and/or VTI re: parts. Too bad he's learning this stuff the hard way in his CAS career. His other pistols are a pair of Ruger Bisley's in .357, as bomb proof as a gun can get.

August · July 13, 2015, 01:42:28 PM

Quote from: PJ Hardtack on July 13, 2015, 01:21:52 PM
Too bad he's learning this stuff the hard way in his CAS career.

First I heard there was some other way.

Pettifogger · July 13, 2015, 01:44:59 PM

Machines break. I have had parts break on Rugers.

PJ Hardtack · July 14, 2015, 10:43:03 AM

Me too. A transfer bar in one of my original Vaqueros. This after considerable dry firing with no snap caps.

I know guys with old Flat Tops that have been pounded by thousands of hot loads and have never missed a beat.

Blair · July 14, 2015, 11:54:16 AM

Perhaps dry firing is a bad idea?
Just a thought on my part.
My best,
Blair

PJ Hardtack · July 15, 2015, 10:34:34 AM

You know a better way to master trigger control?

Years ago, several IPSC pals and I took a level 1 Olympic pistol course. We shot air rifles in a convention room at the YVR airport hotel. We learned more in 8 hours of instruction than had we expended 1000 rds of live ammo on a range and learned nothing.

They recommended something they called "wall hanging" - you took a sight picture on a blank wall (no target) and made the best possible trigger pull. Olympic pistol shooters do this for hours as it costs no money and can be done anywhere while travelling where you can have the gun in hand.
Obviously, if your gun does not lend itself to dry firing without damage, this is not recommended.

To say that we got 'fine tuned' would be an understatement. I teach it to newbies before allowing any live fire.

Jake C · July 15, 2015, 12:31:20 PM

Well sure, I know a better way. Do exactly that, but use snap caps or dummy rounds, so you won't damage your firearm.

Pettifogger · July 15, 2015, 01:28:41 PM

Top shooters dry fire tens of thousands of times a year. The guns still work fine.