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I don't want to give the wrong impression of me haphazardly dry firing from my bed or sofa...
Below are three steps I apply EVERY time I am going to dry fire (or allow someone else to handle my gun). One hundred percent attention must be paid to each step, and there are no shortcuts! For example, if I set my gun down, I will repeat ALL steps when I pick it back up. Everyone should ALWAYS assume a bullet is in the chamber every time they pick up a weapon, period. Whatever status you *think* your weapon is in, or how you recall emptying it, is irrelevant--the only SAFE assumption is that the gun is fully loaded every time you pick it up.
If you cannot follow safe operating procedures, you should not dry fire your weapon in your house (and you probably should not own a weapon). Novices should practice dry firing at the gun range, the same as if firing live rounds.
These same rules apply to cleaning my pistols...
1. Remove magazine, and move all ammunition/magazines away from gun.
2. Operate slide to empty chamber (NO MAGAZINE!), then cycle three times rapidly.
3. Lock the slide back, and visually inspect chamber, and magazine well (under proper lighting conditions).
In addition, before each trigger pull, I will usually perform a quick inspection of the chamber.
When dry firing, all the same rules of gun safety still apply. ALWAYS point the muzzle in a safe direction, preferrably into the ground. Some people only dry fire into a bucket of sand, or stack of phonebooks, and that is absolutely necessary if you cannot aim at the ground.
Below are three steps I apply EVERY time I am going to dry fire (or allow someone else to handle my gun). One hundred percent attention must be paid to each step, and there are no shortcuts! For example, if I set my gun down, I will repeat ALL steps when I pick it back up. Everyone should ALWAYS assume a bullet is in the chamber every time they pick up a weapon, period. Whatever status you *think* your weapon is in, or how you recall emptying it, is irrelevant--the only SAFE assumption is that the gun is fully loaded every time you pick it up.
If you cannot follow safe operating procedures, you should not dry fire your weapon in your house (and you probably should not own a weapon). Novices should practice dry firing at the gun range, the same as if firing live rounds.
These same rules apply to cleaning my pistols...
1. Remove magazine, and move all ammunition/magazines away from gun.
2. Operate slide to empty chamber (NO MAGAZINE!), then cycle three times rapidly.
3. Lock the slide back, and visually inspect chamber, and magazine well (under proper lighting conditions).
In addition, before each trigger pull, I will usually perform a quick inspection of the chamber.
When dry firing, all the same rules of gun safety still apply. ALWAYS point the muzzle in a safe direction, preferrably into the ground. Some people only dry fire into a bucket of sand, or stack of phonebooks, and that is absolutely necessary if you cannot aim at the ground.
