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Offline Bart Solo

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Dry Firing Vaqueros
« on: February 12, 2009, 04:57:12 PM »
I just bought my first two Vaqueros.  They are stainless in 45 Colt and have 5.5 inch barrels. The manual says I can dry fire them safely.  Anybody disagree? I really can't wait to get to the range to see how they shoot.

The actions seem very smooth to me, but what do I know. Is there anything I need to do with them besides shoot and clean?  I mean with rifles I break in barrels, but nobody seems to talk about that with pistols.
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Re: Dry Firing Vaqueros
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2009, 05:23:47 PM »
I have dry fired mine quite a bit.  No damage but I sometimes wonder if that transfer bar is not wearing just a bit thin. I clean regularly but did not worry about a break in period because of the realitivly low velocity.
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Online Lloyd Smale

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Re: Dry Firing Vaqueros
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2009, 11:55:13 PM »
dont know how many 1000s of times ive dry fired rugers but its been alot. Never hurt them even once.
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Re: Dry Firing Vaqueros
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2009, 02:06:03 AM »
i've shot hundreds of bad guys on my TV with my ruger single actions...i don't think you can hurt them dry firing
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Re: Dry Firing Vaqueros
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2009, 02:23:24 AM »
Dry firing was one of the marketing features Bill Ruger used to rely on.  At major events like SHOT Show, he'd have a gun being cycled and dryfired on a machine that did so thousands of times during the course of a day.  No harm to his guns.

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