Storing model 1892 with A-zoom snap caps in chamber

[charliebrown]

I recently purchased snap caps by A-zoom for my Winchester model 1892 made in Japan. The gunsmith recommended dry firing with the snap caps. These caps are metal and not cheap as they come 6 to a package. I need advice on storing the gun with a snap cap in the chamber. I intend to coat the snap cap in WD-40 insert in chamber, dry fire the rifle and leave it in the chamber,then store the rifle in my safe until I shoot the gun or dry fire it again. I usually shoot or dry fire weekly. Thanks for your recommendations.

[PJ Hardtack]

'Twas a time in my memory it was thunk that storing your rifle with a live cartridge chambered was in some how beneficial. What it caused was several unintended discharges that killed or injured people, particularly children.

Treat ALL guns as always loaded! I see no point in storing one with a dummy cartridge. Want to dry fire? Insert a dummy.

I occasionally dry fire my guns (except cap & ball) and have yet to cause damage.

[Lumpy Grits]

WHY, do you even want to do this 
LG

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[litl rooster]

What would be the benefit of storing this weapon or any other with a snap cap? Why would you even buy snap caps when you can make dummies to use? For your so call practice.



treat all weapons as they are loaded.

[Pettifogger]

Why?

[Cliff Fendley]

It's a hammered gun so you can let the hammer down without dry firing it. Why would you store it with anything in the chamber?

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

As the others have said, there is no need to do this. Lower the hammer manually before putting the gun away. There is no need to store it with a snap cap in it.

The only time I store a gun with a snap cap in it is with a gun with an internal hammer. The hammer on my Winchester Model 12 is internal. There is no way to lower the hammer manually. I don't like to leave the hammer cocked for a long time, so when I put the gun away I put a snap cap in the chamber, then pull the trigger to drop the hammer. The snap cap in the chamber protects the firing pin.

P.S. There is no need to spray anything on the snap cap when doing this, I never do. Been doing it for a long time now.

[Cliff Fendley]

It shouldn't hurt one to leave it cocked. As long as a spring is not over compressed beyond it's design it does not weaken in the compressed state. It's the working of a spring that eventually weakens it.

Also on a lot of guns you just need to hold the trigger as you work the action and it lets it down easy. I don't know that it works on a pump shotgun though because some will fire like that if you hold the trigger.

A bolt rifle you can hold the trigger as you let the bolt down and it lets the firing pin down. Although I never worried about dry firing most modern bolt action rifles.

Hammered guns and rimfires are the ones I was always told not to dry fire.