firing pin down on a live cartridge

Snakeman · 07-01-2007, 04:00 PM

I agree with John completely, NEVER decock over a live round, I mean NEVER. That said I would recommend the use of "dummy" bullets if you want to dry practice or have a safe letdown of the sear/firing pin of your P-08. These are commercially available from many sources, but as a reloader IÃ?Â´ve made my own by removing the primer from a resized case and glueing in a plug of hard polyurithane rubber (using "Liquisole" or"Liquiseam") in the primer seat, drilling a couple of holes in the case (to prevent confusion between live and dummy rounds), seating a new bullet and now you have a real good "dummy". I use these for "dry-fire " practice in all my center fire guns (a bunch of different calibers) as I have both heard of and seen the results of firing pin damage due to not using firing pin support- most firing pins are not designed to take the abuse of repeatedly falling on an empty chamber (and the P-08 is right on the top of the list- compare the total weight to any other firing pin- think inertia). My advice to you is to NEVER dry-fire a P-08 without a healthy dummy cartridge in the chamber. I hope this helps.

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07-01-2007, 04:00 PM	#3
Snakeman User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 31 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I agree with John completely, NEVER decock over a live round, I mean NEVER. That said I would recommend the use of "dummy" bullets if you want to dry practice or have a safe letdown of the sear/firing pin of your P-08. These are commercially available from many sources, but as a reloader IÃ?Â´ve made my own by removing the primer from a resized case and glueing in a plug of hard polyurithane rubber (using "Liquisole" or"Liquiseam") in the primer seat, drilling a couple of holes in the case (to prevent confusion between live and dummy rounds), seating a new bullet and now you have a real good "dummy". I use these for "dry-fire " practice in all my center fire guns (a bunch of different calibers) as I have both heard of and seen the results of firing pin damage due to not using firing pin support- most firing pins are not designed to take the abuse of repeatedly falling on an empty chamber (and the P-08 is right on the top of the list- compare the total weight to any other firing pin- think inertia). My advice to you is to NEVER dry-fire a P-08 without a healthy dummy cartridge in the chamber. I hope this helps.