Hi!!!
My experience dry firing
Air Arms, Hatsan, Evanix, no problems
Airforce, Fx, valve problems
Regards Enkey
My experience dry firing
Air Arms, Hatsan, Evanix, no problems
Airforce, Fx, valve problems
Regards Enkey
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Folks,
dry fire in an airgun means------------------------------------------------------- firing when it is out of AIR.
John
Also remember that air moving at 600+ fps is just as dangerous as a pellet for a few inches out of the barrel at least. It isn't harmless. It can cause an embolism if you were to shoot the air at someone point blank. OSHA has really strict standards about air nozzles at 100psi because they can kill people. Imagine what 3000psi could do.
Dry firing a PCP won't hurt. I know an airline at 100psi will do damage as you've said. Especially directed at an orifice on the body. That's because the amount of air is much greater and causes much higher force.Also remember that air moving at 600+ fps is just as dangerous as a pellet for a few inches out of the barrel at least. It isn't harmless. It can cause an embolism if you were to shoot the air at someone point blank. OSHA has really strict standards about air nozzles at 100psi because they can kill people. Imagine what 3000psi could do.
just fire pellets into a bucket of sand with a folded towel on top of the sand . OR just fill the bucket with folded old jeans . fire into the bucket.I asked this same question a long time ago. I was wondering if it would be ok to do this as I wanted to get some "trigger" time in the garage. I wanted to do this to get used to the different stages of the trigger and also be able to adjust the trigger without shooting pellets. The consensus was this was a terrible idea and could case lots of damage. I'm really confused now.
Keith.
You've been tinkering with these things for almost as long as this post is old!I have been tinkering with these things for almost 10 years now and can't think of anything that could be damaged by dry firing. You are dropping the same hammer with the same spring against the same valve.
I've heard of blowing out o-rings, that's about it.I have been tinkering with these things for almost 10 years now and can't think of anything that could be damaged by dry firing. You are dropping the same hammer with the same spring against the same valve.