P08 dry firing
 

Can someone tell me is dry firing the P08 very bad for it or dose it not hurt
the gun to dry fire it

Hi Bruce,

I try not to dry fire any of my lugers.

If the gun is cocked AND WITHOUT a round in the chamber, it can be un-cocked by pulling the toggle back only 1/2" or so and then pulling the trigger.

I also got some "dummy rounds" in 9 mm and .30 cal. that Brownells sold. These are bullets of the right weight of a regular bullet that can be cycled in the lugers magazine and through an entire extraction/ejection cycle and can be dry-fired at well. No powder in the casing and no primer...but the same weight/mass as a real bullet.

Last time I was on the Brownells' web site, they still offered the 9 mm but stopped carrying the .30 dummy round... :(

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

thanks Peter thats a good trick I did not know about pulling back the toggel 1/2 inch and
pulling the trigger that will avoid dry nfiring I will use that as I did not think it was good to dry fire it
best regards

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Pete Ebbink:
<strong>...Last time I was on the Brownells' web site, they still offered the 9 mm but stopped carrying the .30 dummy round... :( ...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Hey Pete..!

You can take a spent .30 round, de-cap it, and cut a pencil erasure to fit in the primer hole. Once it's in, cut the excess erasure off, and you have a very cheap .30 Luger dummy round. If you are REALLY obsessed - you can make 8 of them, and seat bullets into the case (NO POWDER/NO LIVE PRIMER!), mark them with a BLACK "X" across the headstamp - and cycle them....

Just a thought - as I'd never do this.. Well - maybe I would.. Well - if I did do it I wouldn't post that I did..? Hmmm - maybe I just did :D

Best to you!

John

Dry firing is mostly a problem with rim fires, eg. 22lr. Since the firing pin actually hits the barrel around the chamber area, it can deform the chamber. TH

I've noticed, the firing pin on the luger is SOO quiet, it's hard to tell if it even dry fires.

Is this normal?

GunCat,

I would clean your breechblock very well and make sure there is no old dirt or other debris in the firing pin recess that the firing pin may be landing on softening the blow... Even if it is acting healthy and not having a problem shooting, there should be a distict "click" when the firing pin drops.