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Field stripping Glock 44

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#1 ·
I just picked up a 44 for my wife and it has the serial number after the modification (extractor) was made.

Now, in the old days, one would never dry fire a rimfire as the firing pin contacts the chamber's edge, metal on metal, etc, and ran the risk of breaking the pin.

Not so, apparently, with the 44?
 
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#2 ·
Nope it won't hurt to dry fire. In fact as you have found out, you do have to dry fire to field strip the pistol (just like every other Glock). I don't know if I would sit on the couch and dry fire repeatedly all day long. But the occasional dry fire won't hurt a thing.
 
#4 ·
Yeah, I'm old school. For example, I collect older Smith and Wesson revolvers that have the firing pin physically attached to the hammer. They depend upon some resistance in the chamber to stop the forward travel of the firing pin.

I've talked to more than one gunsmith who talked about having to replace the firing pin on such revolvers, firing pins that snapped off from repeated dry firing. Anecdotal, sure. But it left an impression.

So, I simply don't dry fire anything but my Glocks, and then, only to field strip them.

But rimfires were always different. For the reasons in the OP. But metallurgy has come a long way since the old days.
 
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