dry firing question?

yvillanz wrote: does dry firing hurt your gun?

NOT AT ALL! Don't know where these recommendations to re-oil after dry firing came from. There is no more or less wear and tear on the marker when dry firing than there is when paint is present. Re-oiling is not a bad idea after the action has been cycled (firing dry or wet) several thousand times, but oil is not lost faster from the action because one is dry firing.

Dry firing is good practice to develop a steady hold during cycling of the action. Dry firing can also help you develop smooth trigger manipulation. Dry firing with CO2 may use gas faster than firing paint, just don't fire so fast that CO2 snow begins to blow out of the barrel. The back pressure of a ball in the barrel reduces, slightly, the gas traveling through the marker.

diedonimpact wrote: lol you could have just said no but your answer is cool too

And if someone had said "yes," where would there have been any points to compare to judge validity of either response?

Yomillio wrote: I got a funny story about scaring people by dry firing.  I was using my dads A5 at the local speedball fields and his cyclone wasnt working right.  I was playing a game with a bunch of ppl I know and it didn't count for anything, so this didnt bother me.  My dads A5 has an egrip and flatline, so it sounds like actual machine gun fire.  Half the time I wasn't shooting paint but people were ducking and hiding nonetheless (This is why you always see if paint is actually flying).  Sure, it stunk cause I wasn't shootin anything, but I got some people behind the bunker long enough so my teamates could go bunker them.  Good times.

Just goes to show, don't leave the field just because you are out of ammo. Have surrendered a number of people when I was out of paint. My son was out of paint in a game, continued to dry fire and moved up the field. Came around a bunker and yelled for the guy to surrender. The guy said,"You can't surrender me, you are out of paint." He could tell by the different sound of the marker firing without paint. The ref was standing there and said,"yes, he can! You are out!" Man, was that guy ticked!

ekeboo wrote: Well why didnt the guy turn around and shoot you? I thought it was only if you were barrel tagged that you were autamaticaly out. ohh welll. as for dry firing is just wastes gas soo.

On our speedball field, all classes (beginner, intermediate and rental) must abide by the surrender rule. And on our fields that means that if you come within 10 ft and call for surrender the opponent must surrender. If you fail to surrender or shoot someone inside that 10 ft distance you are pulled and have to sit out a couple of games.

Only in advanced is bunkering (defined as shooting inside the 10 foot distance) allowed. You may still surrender your opponent and if you call for surrender and the opponent shoots at you anyway he may be pulled for a couple of games.