Do you leave the hammer cocked?

moonshine44

moonshine44

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When you put your AR in the safe, chamber empty, do you leave the hammer cocked with the safety on, or do you dry fire it and take the pressure off of the hammer spring?

I usually trip the trigger on my Mossberg pump and my bolt actions, but I didn't know if I should do that on my AR. New to the genre, ya know...
 
I don't know about an AR but where I use to work we had problems with the Remington 870's. The factory reps told us to make sure if we were storing for prolong periods to snap the trigger and release the spring. But that is with a shotgun.
 
Jinxed247 is correct.
Does dry firing cause wear? Yes, so does using ANY machine.
The amount of "wear" needed to cause any real damage is more than MOST people will ever use the gun, for ANY purpose.
 
I have no problem feeding it some snap caps. I know it sounds silly but I am going to get some anyways to practice feeding and wearing in some parts on the new gun. I want to play with snap caps until everything on the gun becomes second nature, which is important in hunting. Plus I plan to put one the bottom of the mag to assist with the jamming issue I wrote about yesterday with feeding the last round until my new pmag shows up.
 
I dry fire mine, however a spring loses it's "spring" when it is in movement not when it is compressed or released. That is why you can leave your mags loaded for years and it does not hurt the springs.
 


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