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garbler · November 30, 2012, 05:43 PM

I realize a lot of folks are convinced that dry firing a DA revolver is a no no but let me add that Ron Power who is like the dean of old time S&W mechanics has a machine he calls a clicker, I think that is what he called it, that he sets up his custom jobs on that automatically dry fires for a period of time to work in the action and test them for reliability. If it was just fifty or a hundred cycles I doubt he would have gone to the trouble to build this machine. He is not the only big name gunsmith who does this. As best as I can recall he does this on empty chambers.

November 30, 2012, 05:43 PM	#8
garbler Member Join Date: November 25, 2012 Posts: 20	Dry Firing I realize a lot of folks are convinced that dry firing a DA revolver is a no no but let me add that Ron Power who is like the dean of old time S&W mechanics has a machine he calls a clicker, I think that is what he called it, that he sets up his custom jobs on that automatically dry fires for a period of time to work in the action and test them for reliability. If it was just fifty or a hundred cycles I doubt he would have gone to the trouble to build this machine. He is not the only big name gunsmith who does this. As best as I can recall he does this on empty chambers.