I finally got a Freedom Arms 7 1/2" and want to know how damaging it is to dry fire these guns.

I don't intend practiceing it, and was warned not to, but since a lot of people warn not to dry fire rifles and it appears to do them no harm, I thought I would ask.

I will make up some snap caps for it, but for now I just wanted to satisfy this curiosity, since one shot just slipped away from me on an empty chamber.

I don't see how dry firing any pistol with a transfer bar hurts anything. I don't own an FA but I've dry fired my other pistols till the world looked level and it never hurt anything.

Unless someone knows something I don't, go for it. Better yet, call FA.

You can buy snap caps that have a spring in them and made for dry firing. As suggested I would check on FA's website and see if they say anything about dry firing if not give them a call.

Happy shooting.

FA recommends against it. That being said, you would have to dry fire it an awful lot in order to do any damage. Besides, the firing pin is replaceable. I've always felt that the benefit of dry firing out weighs the wear on any fire arm (except rimfires of course.)

I do not dry fire my FAs without having snap caps in the chambers, period. I know the S&W and Rugers may be dry fired, but the tolerances on the FA are very close. Besides, the cost of snap caps is less than shipping back to the factory to have the revolver repaired.