dry firing

Started by Wagon Box Willy, March 01, 2009, 09:30:59 AM

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Wagon Box Willy

March 01, 2009, 09:30:59 AM
Howdy Pards,

Is there any safe way to dry fire a Pietta 1858?  Perhaps with the cylinder removed?  I'd really like to work on my form and it seems to me dry firing would help some.

Thanks
  Willy

River City John

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March 01, 2009, 09:59:01 AM
Either remove the nipples or, as you say, the cylinder.
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Steel Horse Bailey

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March 01, 2009, 11:34:46 PM
That will work - right up to the point the hammer breaks or the frame cracks.

But that will take a LOT of dryfiring.


I have put aquarium air tubing on nipples and they soaked up the energy of the hammer without buggering up the nipples.  Seems like the length (tried by cutting long, then shortening) like they ended up around 1/8" or even 1/4" past the tip of the nipple.
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Coyote Roper

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March 02, 2009, 04:14:36 PM
Try removing the nipples and fashioning pencil erasers to the right length and diameter to put in the cylinder opening, should absorb the impact pretty well.  Just a thought, haven't really put it to the test yet.
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Wolfgang

#4
March 02, 2009, 08:37:35 PM
You can also use the little plastic caps that are sold in the grocerie store toy area for cap guns.  They make a nice little POP the first time you hit them and will last for about 3 times around the cylinder.  The replace them.  Handy for practice while watching old western movies. . . . taking pot shots at the villians  ;D   I did this some with my first '58.  Was FUN . . . .  :)

Good shootin', . . .  :)
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Don Nix

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March 03, 2009, 07:07:29 PM
Those little toy caps will light off a charge if your in a bind and out of caps.
I used to use them on an old kentucky rifle that I put together . It was a lot cheaper than CCi caps.

Warren T Upp

#6
March 04, 2009, 08:49:22 PM
 :)evenin! anybody have any knowledge about firin dummy or practice rounds in a 58 remmie pietta with a kirst unit in it? will it still round off the firin pins? btw great tip on the caps!!...........have a good evenin!.........warren t upp
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Wagon Box Willy

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March 05, 2009, 05:57:23 AM
Warren,  It seems to me that putting anything in the cylinders which does not cushion the firing pin upon impact will be a problem.  In the case of a live round the primer performs that function.  in a dummy, the pin is reacting just as if the chamber was empty.
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