Dry fire trainer

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

I went to a bullseye pistol clinic last weekend, and one of the fellows there had a kind of interesting dry fire trainer. It was a plastic "blue gun" with a laser mounted and a flexible piece of plastic where the trigger should be. When you squeezed the trigger, you could see how you were shifting the gun around.

I'm interested in getting something like that, because I don't want to use real guns for dry fire practice. A more realistic trigger pull would be good.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
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[Rich357]

Would it be too close to a real gun if you got a trashed 1911, plugged the barrel and just fixed the trigger to be like your real 1911? Assuming you use a 1911.

Rich

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Yup. Have to get a PRNJ pistol purchase permit for that. Plus I don't want to worry the SO.

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[9mmepiphany]

how about an airsoft replica of your favorite pistol?

 

[M2HMGHB]

Airsoft is illegal in PRNJ, at least from what I've heard/

 

[Standing Wolf]

Balance a dime atop the front sight, then squeeze the trigger verrrrrrry gently. Repeat about 3,685 times.

 

[Detritus]

can't remember a company name but...

reacently Saw a small reveiw of a new training device that is being marketed, mainly to police Depts.

it's a false barrel with a built in Dryfire "impact area" it supposedly made so that it's a drop in part for your gun, replaces teh barrel with a red anodized faux barrel that is solid at both ends but lightened in thge middle etc, to balance like the real one.

maybe something like this would work?? but you also said you didn't want to use a real gun for dryfire....

don't know your reasoning so i'll not speculate. but this may or may not satify your need. and others may be interested.

 

[Nathaniel Firethorn]

Airsoft's not illegal in PRNJ, but it's treated the same as a firearm. Requires the purchase permit and all that. (Or the unscrupulous can drive to Free Pennsylvania and bypass the baloney.)

Crossbows, however, aren't regulated.

Under the PRNJ legal definition, a bombardier beetle is a firearm.

All of which is irrelevant, because the law is whatever the political machine wants it to be at any given time, anyway.

Don't get me started...

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[9mmepiphany]

and i thought CA was bad