Dry Firing with Classic Springers? e.g., the FWB 300 series

peterz · Post by **peterz** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:48 pm

I've recently gotten a 300 from Our Host and I love it. But I don't see any obvious way to dry fire unless, maybe, with felt cleaning pellets. Any better ideas?

Thanks!

--pz[/b]

JSBmatch · Post by **JSBmatch** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:01 am

FWB do not recommend dry firing the 300-S springers. I guess firing the felt cleaning pellets would be OK for 2 or 3 shots, but they don't give the air pressure resistance of a lead pellet so long term damage might occur to the piston head buffer and springs can some times break, , plus it would be expensive way of dry firing.
If you have easy access to a range, just shoot normal pellets for your practice and trigger control.

JSB

RobinC · Post by **RobinC** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:50 am

Not a good idea, when these were in common use the dry fire technique was to just to pressure against the trigger uncocked.
Robin

peterz · Post by **peterz** » Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:29 pm

That's kind of what I expected. Thanks for confirming it.

pz