Common opinion of experts on snap cap dry firing
 

Evidently the P-08 is exceptionally liable to damaging firing pins during dry firing. I have the red plastic bodied caps with the brass primers and springs, they seem to be better than rubber in the pocket type to me, and turned the front down on one for .30 Luger as well.

My question is does this protect the FP from the damage of dry firing sufficiently to allow one to dry fire at similar frequency as one can dry fire a 1911 without snap caps?

I'd like to find an exhaustive website that discusses which firearms have extremely delicate firing train parts and which ones can safely be dry fired without concern, which is my opinion of the 1911 backed by many thousands of dry firings.

No opinions? I don't want to hurt my pistols.

It's cheap insurance I have snap caps for all my many calipers pistol and rifles.

Dry firing should be safe as long as the snap cap is doing its job. Check the caps periodically to make sure the pounding hasn't damaged them...

Thanks guys. The truth is my Mauser P-08 has such a bad trigger (7.7 lbs) that it's not something that will be really constructive anyway.

If I were to really go over every possible area for improvement what is the best trigger weight one can hope for with a P-08? Can it be safely brought down to 5 lbs? What is the best source of info on the procedures, is there a book that goes into depth on it? It's really a shame since the gun has so much potential other than the trigger.

Check out Gerard Henrotin's e-book on Luger mechanical features on GunBroker.com.
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=256186229

-ML

Do a search on the forum for trigger pull improvements. I know a couple of articles have been posted...

I have it already, thanks. And I'll look for threads on trigger work too, what is a good trigger weight?

This is a striker based firing system (not hammer based) and I would consider anything less than 4 lb pull to be risky.