Reply With QuoteUsing your finger would be stupid, but a bit of rubber works fine.
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sounds about as sensible as using your finger in the end of the barrelOriginally Posted by Rapidnick
Surprisingly enough the way it was done by one gunshop owner I knew, was to place the muzzle hard up against a piece of material like rubberised matting and dry fire. Apparently, the pressure against the rubber is enough to slow the piston down at the end of its travel as if a pellet was in the breech.
Using your finger would be stupid, but a bit of rubber works fine.
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yeh, i was being a little flippant...
i'm not really a fan of finding "safe" ways to discharge an airgun when its not really suitable to discharge one with a pellet...if it can't be decocked.
To wander OT, i'm not so sure it's advisable if you have anything on the end of the barrel, and i would be interested to see if the rubber provided enough seal or indeed if the air in the barrel subsequently was at a high enough pressure to hold back the cylinder in comparison to the pressure curve a pellet would produce. I guess you'd have to know a lot about breech closing times and pressures in airguns to be able to tell how good a practice it is for the gun.
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