Talk:Dry fire

I don't know how to edit wikipedia but I have an observation about this page. A question that is not answered by this page (or anywhere I can find on the internet) is if dry firing a rim fire gun causes any damage IF THE SAFETY IS ON. If the safety is on, I am no expert but, I don't think the firing pin strikes anything. This page: heritage-rough-rider-small-bore-revolver-instruction-manual.pdf Says this: Always use the manual hammer block. It is designed to prevent the hammer from being able to contact the firing pin.

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Request at Project Firearms
In response to that request I took a peek. It looks technically sound but has wiki-problems. It's written in an instructional tone and is weak on sourcing. I'll try to help a bit here.North8000 (talk) 01:57, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Frame rate vs frame duration
I reverted on addition as unsourced and generally incorrect. Contrary to the appearance of the fps wording, time per frame is not simply the inverse of the frame rate. It's typically the inverse of the frame rate plus the exposure time. North8000 (talk) 20:07, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Dry firing/shooting
Is it good for the trigger or the firing pin to be repeatedly "dry fired". Pulling trigger over and over? 2601:3C3:302:F60:AE83:BEA2:5C8B:F099 (talk) 05:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Laser systems
The laser systems section seems to go off topic for an article about dry firing - the description of laser frequency and pulse duration, for example. (Hohum @ ) 18:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I concur; it seems a previous author had this page focused specifically around the practice of using dry firing with firearms for training purposes, rather than as a general knowledge article re: dry firing itself. Would it make sense to make another article for the laser stuff? I don't think it's necessarily too out of place as long as it's well contextualized. (DesertEagle_PWN User talk:DesertEagle_PWN) 18:22, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Laser pistol (sport) already exists. (Hohum @ ) 19:08, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) Looks like something that should be covered somewhere.  Use of a particular company name in there would need a closer look.  But as a separate article it would need sources so that it doesn't get merged back into this one at AFD.  :-) North8000 (talk) 19:12, 19 January 2024 (UTC)