r/canadaguns • u/GapCharming1547 • Apr 21 '26

Fix my gun Can you dry fire

i have a tm22 ria feather ik you cant dry fire most 22s but some you can

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u/theawesomedude646 Apr 21 '26

i don't think you should dry-fire any rimfire, what kinds of .22 can you apparently safely dry-fire?

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u/84camaroguy Apr 21 '26

10/22 can be safely dry fired as per Ruger.

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u/__WayDown Apr 21 '26

It has to be. I dry fire mine every empty mag.

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u/Hot_Cheesecake_905 Apr 21 '26

Modern rimfires can be dry fired - the TM22 definitely can be dry fired.

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u/WinterInternal8799 Apr 21 '26

GSG manual specifically says to dry fire it.

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u/_Shorty Apr 21 '26

Some are designed with a beefy stop that prevents the firing pin tip from hitting the breech. That design is intended to allow dryfiring. Some are not designed this way, and dryfiring causes the firing pin to hit the breech and damage itself and/or the breech with repeated hits. This can break the firing pin and peen the breech such that the chamber mouth eventually gets misshapen. You need to know which is the case before dryfiring any rimfire without a snapcap. Dryfiring with a snapcap should pose no issues in either case. Only those with a built-in stop should be dryfired without a snapcap. Some paranoid people still use a snapcap with those that have a stop, but it is essentially pointless in that case. The stop is usually a pretty large flat surface that safely stops the entire firing pin without it being able to cause any damage, rendering snapcaps a waste of time and money. I’ve got silhouette rifles with stops that have been dryfired literally hundreds of thousands of times with no ill effects because that’s what the stop is designed to handle. But even a single dryfire on one without a stop and no snapcap in place would really make me cringe.