Originally Posted by
fannin
i didn't know that you should not dry fire a springer
to be honest, i like to plink cans and the like and also like to shoot paper targets.
thank you for replying
Strictly speaking, there are some circumstances where dry-firing can be done with minimal/no harm to the spring piston pistol/rifle.
Not recommending this unless you find yourself with a pistol/rifle without a pellet in the breech, and no safe way of getting one in there...
... If you press the end of the barrel firmly, muzzle down, against something with a bit of compression give (like a sheet of rubber, thick and stiff cardboard, etc...) and then dry-fire, you can simulate the resistance that would have been offered by the pellet as it travelled down the barrel, and avoid excessive impact of the piston against the end of the cylinder.
Again, I stress that this is for emergencies only, if somehow your kit ends up cocked without being loaded. It can happen.
Welcome, by the way, and I too have just recently discovered pistol shooting and loving it! Got myself a HW40, and a HW45. The 45 was only recent, and a world apart from shooting the HW40, and I'd agree that starting with the HW40 would be a good idea. Let you focus on the basics first.
atb,
shammo.
Weihrauch HW40 (.177), Weihrauch HW45 (.22), Weihrauch HW45 Silver Star (.177)