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Real dummies for ball and dummy drill

Started by Wheeler44, November 04, 2010, 06:27:06 PM

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Crazyduckhunter

Another apple seeder endorsing this product. They work very good in the marlin 795. Also at a pistol shoot this weekend was able to use one to show another shooter that his firing pin was broken on his pistol. Great product and a great training tool. Thank you!

Nashville Stage

Hi Prescott,

These look neat! Are they still available? I'd like to try some out.
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Prescott

Yes, I am still manufacturing them.   If you send me your address, I will send you a couple samples to try.
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Nashville Stage

"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't."

jlwilliams


Prescott

You are second person to have asked me that lately.  Sorry, I am old school and just accept checks, money orders or cash.
"America will never be destroyed from the outside.  If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

jlwilliams


Mike AKA Bandaid

Hope you're still making these Prescott! Order inbound to you!
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Moy

Yet another endorsement of these snapcaps.  With pictures (15 pictures, not the smallest, so bandwidth warning):

https://imgur.com/a/feVwE2v

I tried to break one, I really did.  I was unable to.

The first 3 pictures there show the effects of a single dryfire - basically zero impact on the snapcap except for a visible dent from the firing pin.

The next three pictures show the effects of ten consecutive dryfires on exactly the same spot.  The effect is basically the same as a single dryfire.

The next four pictures show me finally getting something that looked visibly damaged, by dryfiring the same spot 25 times in a row.  But of course "damaged" doesn't really mean anything, because it still works fine and extracts.

I then dryfired 25 more immediately adjacent, so you can really see it starting to smear out.  It still feeds and extracts perfectly fine.  I think after 50 dryfires on the same spot it no longer is being impacted much , because I couldn''t get it to break out any farther.  I suspect if you used an older rifle that was less safe with snapcap-less dryfiring (so that you had to worry about the chamber), it might eventually wear out.  With a newer rifle, I'm almost convinced you can't break these.

I was able to get a failure to feed up through the magazine once, but.... that's the exact same behavior I get with real ammo, because Savage Mk ii magazines are not very good.  So, behaves like the real thing.

Anyways, A+ awesome snapcaps.  Now I will be able to properly do ball and dummy at the range.  Well, not now, because everything is still closed, but once the virus relents a bit...... soon ?  Maybe? I hope.

Snow Snake

 Caps from Prescott are the  best,used them for two years, (gave many away).These are the only ones that will actually feed from my Ruger MK IV magazines.
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Lomshek

I've only used mine in a few 'seeds but they've already proven far tougher than anything else out there.  Well worth the money!

mikek


GTEngineer

Mikek, you're in my area, next time we meet up give me a heads up and I'll bring a few for you.

Quote from: mikek on April 23, 2022, 01:13:48 PM
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