marksman13
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So, I'm in a gun store the other day. Not my usual hang out, and I am quite unfamiliar with the people who work there. I'm browsing through their selection, handling quite a few pistols and looking for something to trade them out of. I picked up a used Sig P220. I never assume that it is "OK" to dry fire a weapon, but the trigger is one of the most important aspects of a pistol and I like to know that it suits me. I ask the guy showing it to me if I can dry fire it. He says sure, no problem. I dry fire it a couple times at a very slow pace and hand it back. I liked it...ALOT! I was ready to make the trade when another employee walks down and informs me that if I dry fire one more of their pistols...I own it.
He wasn't the owner and from talking to him earlier he seemed to be very much the type of ignorant redneck that gives Mississippi a bad name. I basically told him to get f@#%ed and walked out. I cussed this guy all the way home. I can understand that some gunstore owners do not want their products dry fired, but after being told by one employee that it was okay, I assumed that they had no such policy. It certainly wasn't posted anywhere. I think the guy was just being a jerk or maybe trying to make an ill-recieved joke. Bottom line is it cost him my business for good. I refuse to buy or trade for any firearm without checking out the trigger.
Are there any pistols in particular that can be damaged by dry firing? Most of the advice I see here and everywhere else I go is to dry fire the crap out of new guns to get used to the trigger and smooth out the "gritty" feel in most factory triggers. Did I do something horribly wrong? I understand respecting a store owners property, but I also expect to be respected as a customer. I was completely polite up to the time he made his assinine comment. Overly polite actually, as is my policy when dealing with other armed people. I don't think there i anything I could have done before to rub him the wrong way except for rejecting his proposal that I trade for three or four new High Points for the price of his used Sig. And I even did this in a very friendly manner. what gives?
He wasn't the owner and from talking to him earlier he seemed to be very much the type of ignorant redneck that gives Mississippi a bad name. I basically told him to get f@#%ed and walked out. I cussed this guy all the way home. I can understand that some gunstore owners do not want their products dry fired, but after being told by one employee that it was okay, I assumed that they had no such policy. It certainly wasn't posted anywhere. I think the guy was just being a jerk or maybe trying to make an ill-recieved joke. Bottom line is it cost him my business for good. I refuse to buy or trade for any firearm without checking out the trigger.
Are there any pistols in particular that can be damaged by dry firing? Most of the advice I see here and everywhere else I go is to dry fire the crap out of new guns to get used to the trigger and smooth out the "gritty" feel in most factory triggers. Did I do something horribly wrong? I understand respecting a store owners property, but I also expect to be respected as a customer. I was completely polite up to the time he made his assinine comment. Overly polite actually, as is my policy when dealing with other armed people. I don't think there i anything I could have done before to rub him the wrong way except for rejecting his proposal that I trade for three or four new High Points for the price of his used Sig. And I even did this in a very friendly manner. what gives?