Worthwhile to dry fire new SP101 to break in trigger?

[WayneSmithers]

This 3" SP101 .357 is my first new revolver in 25 years. At this time I'm not interested in a trigger job - but it does feel a touch rough so wondering if a couple hundred dry fires would help break in the parts that make contact? I know Ruger says it is fine to dry fire, question is specifically if it would help break in the moving parts. Sure would be cheaper than shooting up all my precious ammo breaking it in.

 

[JumpmasterC]

Yes! Mine smoothed out a lot after a while of dry-firing it! Good luck!

Tip: do it while your alone, it drives people up the wall..click-click...click-click...click-click... :lol:

 

[WayneSmithers]

doubleaction?

 

[Skalkaho Slim]

Find yourself a little piece of rubber about 1/8" thick or a little thinner and fit it to the hammer channel, so that it fits over the firing pin, but doesn't interfere with the transfer bar.

It'll deaden the sound quite a bit and you can dry fire that thing until your blue in the face.

 

[Charlie U.]

Dry fire till your finger aches......Wont' hurt it a bit.....Ruger revolvers are built to take it.

You might want to take the gun apart to have a look inside. It's not impossible for new ones to have some metal shavings or grit in the action.

 

[Three44s]

Click away! But click at a target like you mean business.

You'll gain targeting skills, build your muscles AND polish your gun's internals all at the same time!!


Another trick if you can deliver it to the sear surface is to use a limited amount of toothpaste ....... makes a very fine polishing agent.


Three 44s

 

[SweetWilliam]

You can smooth the action by just taking the gun apart & clean & polish the correct parts. Their is a lot of videos on you tube on how to do it.
But I would through in some wolff springs while it was apart.
For under $20 it's worth it.

 

[KWYJIBO]

I used to sit and cycle the action of my SP-101 while watching TV. After several thousand dry fire cycles, I can't say for sure that the action improved, but I'm certain I did not harm it.

I know a guy who's put tens of thousands of rounds through his SP, and also dry fired it more times than he actually shot it. It's probably had over 100,000 cycles. He claims they only get better the more you use them.

There's perhaps a secondary benefit to this: development of muscle memory. I doubt it would improve your shooting a lot, especially if you don't line up your eye with the sights. However, I think it's good to condition your hand to that motion.

 

[woodsy]

You can accelerate the smoothing by doing the "poor man's trigger job". Add that piece of rubber previously suggested, then manually cock the hammer, place your opposite hand's thumb against it and push forward (towards the cylinder). Now slowly pull the trigger. When it lets off, you have performed several dry-fires with one action. Your "other" thumb just multiplied the hammer spring by several times, and the mating surfaces in the sear area polished each other much more quickly than regular dry-firing does. I forget which forum originally had this tip, but I used it on both my SP and GP, and after about 100 times each they both now have wonderfully smooth trigger pulls. It works.