Anybody broke their firing pin yet?
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:56 am
So I have this bad habit of dry-firing my shotguns ALOT. And with 12ga snap caps being a bit expensive, I haven't gotten around to getting any. Though now I'm definately gonna make some out of empty 12ga hulls and some hot glue.....eventually.
I know alot of people say that dry-firing without snap caps is bad for your firing pin. But I always kinda figured that was just over-cautious nonsense that only applied to old guns. Until now.
Was dry firing my SXP yesterday. Rack, snap. Rack, snap. Rack, snap, poing. And there goes the tip of my firing pin flying out the end of the barrel.
Going to give Winchester a call. Hope they can send me another one. Anyone have this happen to them? Anyone order parts from Winchester? Somehow I get this impression that they don't like sending spare parts out and ask you to just send them the gun for pretty much any and all repairs. Which I really don't want to do for just a firing pin that I could replace myself in 5 minutes.
I know alot of people say that dry-firing without snap caps is bad for your firing pin. But I always kinda figured that was just over-cautious nonsense that only applied to old guns. Until now.
Was dry firing my SXP yesterday. Rack, snap. Rack, snap. Rack, snap, poing. And there goes the tip of my firing pin flying out the end of the barrel.
Going to give Winchester a call. Hope they can send me another one. Anyone have this happen to them? Anyone order parts from Winchester? Somehow I get this impression that they don't like sending spare parts out and ask you to just send them the gun for pretty much any and all repairs. Which I really don't want to do for just a firing pin that I could replace myself in 5 minutes.