Glock says use a snap cap

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Sorry, but this is total BS -- note this came from 'GlockTalk' ( :rolleyes: )

I'm a Glock Armorer, and if your Glock has the proper lubrication on the slide and connector/trigger bar, you can dry fire it until your fingers are bleeding with no harm.

P.S. ( Glock has Never Said to use snap caps )

TK
 
The bottom line: when dry-firing to field strip or show clear, don't worry about it; and while dry-firing heavily for practice, use snap caps to prevent excessive stress and wear. It helps one's peace of mind, if nothing more. If it doesn't do that, then forget the snap caps--whatever you're comfortable with.
 
P.S. ( Glock has Never Said to use snap caps )
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Call them yourself and ask them.

And anyone with $150 and the IQ of a grapefruit can be a Glock Armorer.
 
Yep. Glocks can and do break from excessive dry firing, same as any gun. Snap caps are cheap. I prefer the A-Zoom variety myself.
 
"anyone with $150 and the IQ of a grapefruit can be a Glock Armorer"

Ouch! That might be a tad harsh toward the poster, but it is funny.
 
Some folks just like to argue...

I'm always somewhat bemused when this comes up-folks will spend hours debating snap caps or no. 'Fer myself, I just use 'em (they're cheap) and go on about my business-got better things to do than waste time arguing over it.

FWIW, I think the only owner manual I have that says do not dry fire is my Taurus PT145-whether this is because it could possibly cause problems or if Taurus is just being (overly?) cautious, who can say, and why spend time trying to outguess 'em?
All my other manuals (from the usual high-priced brands) say it's OK, or either don't really broach the subject.

This sounds like an ideal candidate for the KISS principle.
Jest get a few snap caps-then you can just stand back and watch the arguments! :rolleyes:
 
A few Glockers have smashed through the slide where the striker contacts. It probally took 100,000 dry fires to do, but it did happen.

Glock replaced the slide no charge.
 
Glocks can survive the fires of Mount Doom! They're indestructible! Anyone claiming the contrary doesn't know a penny from a cow chip.

On a serious note, attached are pics of Glocks that suffered catastrophic breech face damage as a result of excessive dry firing. For anything other than normal take down or occasional dry fire, do yourself a favor and use snap caps.
 

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A snap cap is prudent for massive amounts of dry firing on any gun, but to use one when simply disassembling the gun is completely pointless. The snap cap would have to be ejected, and pulling the slide back far enough to do so will reset the trigger, forcing it to have to be pulled again anyway to remove the slide from the frame. Personally, I would grow bored with dry firing long before I punched the firing pin through my breechface. :p
 
Could someone loan me $150? I want to be a grapefruit. Put that in your snap cap and fire it!

It creeps me out a bit to think of guys spending enough time squeezing the trigger on an empty chamber to bust out the breech on a Glock. Maybe D.C. Piazza told them to do it.

Could someone loan me $150? I need to buy a grapefruit to fix my Glock.
 
"anyone with $150 and the IQ of a grapefruit can be a Glock Armorer"

Ouch! That might be a tad harsh toward the poster, but it is funny.
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Well he did come off very arrogant.
 
I wouldn't have called it arrogance but rather an axiom. While in rare circumstances it may have been disproved (we don't have a full history of those pistols claiming failure from dryfire) the evidence leans heavily toward snap caps being unnecessary in the Glock.

Please note I am not a Glock fan or owner but still have confidence in the platform and believe it has proven to be the most reliable polymer pistol on the market. I feel there are newcomers that improve on the design but none of them has a 25+ year history to back it up.

Use a snap cap if it pleases you or don't, we all come here (hopefully) for the exchange of information and anecdote. I feel the post pointed out the rule rather than the exception and did so with qualification, not arrogance.
 
A package of snap caps isn't really that expensive. Along with dry firing, I am also interested in how the ejector is working, as well as how the weapon is feeding from the magazines. Snap caps are the very thing.
 
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