That small blue gadget is dry fire aid...
http://www.strelci.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11

 

we have an inertial firing pin. meaning the pin is receded at rest and uses the kinetic force of the hammer to over extended to hit the round. if there is no round in the chamber the firing pin will over extend as there is nothing for it to hit. i have heard people having the main firing spring break. I had one fail on me when at a range with a rental p22 when i was trying to decide to get one or not. (deff not a good thing to happen lol)

one option you can do is to put the safety on. the safety blocks the hammer from hitting the firing pin. you can slap the hammer all day long and not do damage to the firing pin.

 

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one option you can do is to put the safety on. the safety blocks the hammer from hitting the firing pin. you can slap the hammer all day long and not do damage to the firing pin.

...but you can break safety! So use that blue plastic insert to protect firing pin. Safety OFF!

 

No. The firing pin will hit the edge of the chamber and eventually peen both. Use the safety.

 

How do you use the blue plastic thingy correctly? Pics of it being inserted?

 

how can the safety break? it is a metal bar that stops tha hammer... there used to be the issue where the safety would rotate to fire. but dont have that issue with my AK p22 and it is fixable in the older p22's

yeah peening the chamber and the firing pin... deff isnt a good thing...

 

Yeah, it´s ONLY the metal bar that stops the hammer... hit after hit, some thousands, an you will see

 

yeah thats like saying dont pull the trigger cause eventually the trigger will wear away... how many dry fires areyou planing on doing?

lol yeah it will eventually do damage but who sits there and dry fires their pistol all day long.

i still say if your just checking the trigger pull and need to do one or two dry fires use the safety.

either way the blue plastic thing holds the slide back... and the hammer hits the slide cause the slide isnt fully forward. not a fan of that.

 

... how many dry fires areyou planing on doing?

lol yeah it will eventually do damage but who sits there and dry fires their pistol all day long.
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I don´t know - ask searspring! Maybe he will!!! My answer was to use soft plastic insert as the producer supposed...

good day, may i ask if its safe to dry fire the Walther p22? will it damage the firing pin?
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try dry firing with a spent shell case in the chamber.

 

I've dry fired mine quite a bit with the safety engaged with no ill effects so far.

 

Spend the big money and buy some snap caps if you want to dry fire a lot.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=213850

 

In the review section for these, someone states that they are too short and will not work in a P22.

I was also told not to use snap caps. To instead use a spent casing.

 

In the review section for these, someone states that they are too short and will not work in a P22.

 

I didn't get one of those blue inserts with mine however and it sounds like neither have others in the USA.

 

I got one with mine but it's not a dry fire device (since it keeps the slide out of battery) but rather a device to indicate that the chamber is unloaded.

 

good day, may i ask if its safe to dry fire the Walther p22? will it damage the firing pin?

The real question is,
"Is it safe to fire the P22 at all?"

I don't want that pot metal slide hitting ME in the teeth!!

 

The real question is,
"Is it safe to fire the P22 at all?"
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I don't want that pot metal slide hitting ME in the teeth!!

So one another broken "target"??? What to hell you people are doing? Don´t understand...

 

So there's no good way to do it repeatedly?

Dry firing is supposed to be a cheap way to practice in between trips to the range.

 

I don't think dry firing will hurt anything. I've never seen or read about a broken P22 safety. Now the PK380 which uses the P22 hammer and hammer spring, that is another story. But the safety had to be constructed differently for the center fire .380 and in the process apparently got too thin. That and a P22 hammer spring???? Not a carry for me.

It would be a poorly designed anything semi auto that would damage itself from a dry fire as it is always possible that while firing the next round might not be picked up. On the other hand, hundreds of dry fires for practice is another thing.

I still don't think you will hurt anything, won't help anything either. The top of the firing pin has a rather large surface for impact with the chamber. Yes, eventually you would peen the firing pin and chamber. With the safety engaged the hammer will hit the safety bar and I've never seen any damage, peening or otherwise to either. In addition there is an internal cam that locks the firing pin from moving when the safety is set to safe. I have purposely dropped the hammer several thousand times on two safety bars that I cut down in the last breech block mod. I was testing to see if they would break. They didn't and nothing was damaged from the hammering or from subsequent firing. My 2 cents. Hammer on the safety if you gotta. M1911

 

In the Ruger section there's a thread that recomends yellow wall anchors.

 

What's wrong with dry firing with the safety on? No need for snap caps IMO.