I read online that you shouldn't flick the cylinder on a revolver shut because it can eventually fuck up the crane...

this is a fucking meme for anything but rimfires and you know it

So people recommending dry fire practice are working for Big Firing Pin?

except its not see
Enjoy ruining your timing

Rimfires will have the firing pin hit the mouth of the chamber and mess up either the pin or the mouth of the chamber.

Yes, absolutely.

One of the things to look for when buying a used revolver is to push on the cylinder while it's locked up, and see how much the crane wiggles. If it moves too much, there's really not a lot you can do to fix it, afaik. You can also damage the lock on the bottom of the frame, which is a pain in the ass to replace.

Purchase an authentic duelling pistol you dunce

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so only a thing on 22s that are cheap enough and light recoiling enough that dry fire practice is a lot less useful

No, dry firing is a good way to practice your technique without blowing money on ammo. Snap caps (dummy bullets) are the best way to avoid long term damage from dry firing.

>hurr durr muh metal on metal
faggot, think about how all modern automatic guns work. metal on metal. Does material shed off every time the lugs go into battery?

retard

>Does material shed off every time the lugs go into battery?
fractions of a meter do, we're talking micrometers but they do wear. Every metal on metal interaction wears. Don't pretend like theres no friction, the only way for metal on metal to not touch is to have a viscous layer of oil on top that stops them from colliding.

So yes material does shed off every time the lugs lock.

>Big Firing Pin

Top Kek

Yes, and material will shed a lot faster if the gun goes into battery faster than it's supposed to.

It's insane how stupid people can be. How that guy thought that metal on metal isn't creating any form of wear, is beyond me. Basic scientific principle.

Yes they do shed
Not significantly on the action because that's what its made to do, not to mention it has oil (nice strawman)
BUT
The other parts aren't made for such abuse and will suffer significant losses after repetitive abuse.

>The other parts aren't made for such abuse and will suffer significant losses after repetitive abuse.
This is often called peening just FYI

Yes it does imbecile. Which is why guns can't be used infinitely. They all break eventually.

Dry firing anything but a rimfire is fine. Best to always use snap caps though. Especially for older revolvers with the firing pin on the hammer.

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I've been told not to dry fire old guns like milsurp war rifles like mosins and enfields, is that true?

Holy fuck Jow Forums has some special ones

problematic given the temperatures involved in guns.

True. Age and questionable war time metallurgy can make excessive dry firing of old guns problematic.

peening is a pretty specific term. Most types of alteration to metals have very specific terms.

You go back long enough and some rifles they discourage it due to general age and such. Most modern firearms it's not an issue though.

>Purchase an authentic duelling pistol you dunce

That looks like a modern reproduction of a coat or belt pistol not a duelling pistol, duelling pistols of the later type with a roller on the frizen are accurate to 75 yards by the way and are the masterpiece of gunsmithing of their era. That is (certainly the stock) not an original tough the lock and fitting may possibly be, it is more of a type used in frontier trading posts, not French probably British (see barrel pin) but the barrel pin is wrong and missing its surround. Anyway its not a duelling pistol. Anyways it is not 'right' and I would not buy it looks more like a composite in the English style fitted to a new stock

>dry firing is a good way to practice

It is use a mirror, ensure a consistent grip in line with elbow and wrist and raise the gun from your shoulder unitl you feel you are pointing at your sternum Fire. Follow through and then check the sights Repeat. between your eyes. Fire. Follow through and then check the sights. Tis is the regular way for training in point shooting adapted from underground movements in ww2. It works.Best with a good fit revolver of course

>retards missing the point
My point is that the metal-on-metal analogy is so stupid that we shouldn't be having this discussion.

so, you're saying that I can flick my revolver 20,000 times before it fails? That's how long guns last. After all, just metal on metal right? idiot

>so, you're saying that I can flick my revolver 20,000 times before it fails? That's how long guns last. After all, just metal on metal right? idiot
No, because flicking it isn't a normal thing you do, anytime you do it its abuse, that crane is not a typical wearable part. When you do that the crane could bend out of alignment and fuck up your timing.

Don't listen to us or anything we say
Just keep doing your retarded shit until your shitty meme gun blows up in your hands

yes. It's almost like the problem is that the part wasn't designed for that wear, not because all metal interaction is bad like the first retarded commenter said

Literal fuddlore. Modern firearms generally have zero issue with dry firing

enjoy your 19th century fossils, boomer

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isn't that the whole point of owning a revolver in 2018?

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No actually its not

Dry firing Mosins and Enfields is fine

not him, but what in this video will ruin timing?