Project Appleseed

I just signed up for my first AS, coming up in February. I have a 10/22 that I bought new in 1992 or so, and a old Mossberg 44US(c) bolt gun with good aperture sights on it. I just got a set of tech sights for the Ruger, and I'll trade out the cheap scope that's on it for those this week. I used to shoot more than I have in the past year or so, but have never had any real training, and I would like to get better with iron sights. I have a couple of old lever guns that I would like to hunt with, but I don't feel very good about the iron sights on those, and one of them I don't want to scope, and one I want to take the scope off of to use on another gun.

My question is this: I see a lot of people talking about practicing magazine swaps and dry firing exercises, but I was always under the impression that I should not dry fire my rimfires. I used to stick an empty case in the Mossberg to practice dry firing, but I get the impression from some of the threads I'm seeing here that people are just dry firing without any snap caps or anything. Is that the case? Have I been mistaken about dry firing my 22s?

thanks!

I can't speak for the old Mossberg boltie but dryfiring the 10/22 is perfectly safe. 
For the Mossberg, and the old lever guns the best resource would be the manuals if you have them. 
If you don't just drop a line to the manufacturer and I'm sure they'll send you one for just the cost of shipping, if that.

Some of the manufactures have manuals on-line. You can use drywall anchors as snap caps if worried about the older guns. The 10-22, dry fire to your hearts content, work out those wiggles...O.L.

Here's a link to an online resource for manufacturer product manuals. They are available for many products including firearms. I didn't see the Mossberg but there are other Mossberg products.
http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/

Thanks, I didn't realize that about the 10/22.

My new Mossberg 801 bolt is NOT to be dryfired. 

Quote from: Stand on January 01, 2013, 11:23:57 PM
My new Mossberg 801 bolt is NOT to be dryfired.

That's odd, no warnings on the 802....O.L.

That is why I called Mossberg.  The tech said no dry firing.  Does your 802 crush the rim?

We should start a sticky thread in here.
List every rifle we see on the line and whether it is safe to dry fire.  With a notation as to whether the information comes from anecdotes, direct experience, or the manufacturer (manual/email/whatever).

Fer instance the Henry lever actions all say not to dry fire in the manual.

Remington 597 manual says not to dry fire; although I've heard there are several versions of the manual and it's not in all of them. The manual I have says no.

Marlin 795: don't dry-fire
CZ-452/455: *probably* safe to dry-fire, but you need to check if the firing pin is within spec.  Some may extend past the bolt face.  See http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=390503