Cartridge Dummies requirement

[BRAIN]

Hello,

I'm looking to purchase Cartridge Dummies online in Australia.

Can anyone recommend reputable online stores or platforms where I can find a good selection of Cartridge Dummies?

Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[No1_49er]

There is other stuff available, but this could be a good starting place https://www.rebelgunworks.com.au/collec ... and_a-zoom
They're good folk to deal with.

[bladeracer]

Hello,

I'm looking to purchase Cartridge Dummies online in Australia.

Can anyone recommend reputable online stores or platforms where I can find a good selection of Cartridge Dummies?

Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

This could refer to military training ammo, inert ammunition made for cycling manually through firearms, replica ammunition that uses no genuine ammo components, or snap caps used for dry-fire training.

What precisely are you looking for?

The simplest is to buy the brass and bullets and assemble your own to your own specification. I don't think I've ever heard of anybody commercially making dummy ammo for sale other than collectible military training ammo.

For practicing rapid fire in .303 I made up dummy ammo for myself. It does cop a hiding so needs a really good crimp on the bullet.

[womble]

Or ask bladeracer to make you some

[bladeracer]

Or ask bladeracer to make you some

I wouldn't be against doing that, if I have the gear to do them. Very easy if they're just for display. If they need to be able to cycle through a firearm then I'd suggest new brass and an FMJ bullet rather than a soft point, hollow point, or a polymer-tip, as they will get beaten up. A length of dowel inside the case is not a bad idea to help keep the bullet in place.

[in2anity]

A cautionary tale.

There are two problems with the azoom caps. 1) after not long, the rubber primer develops a striker dent, such that the firing pin is no longer being arrested by the rubber primer 2) it's very unlikely the azoom cap tightly headspaces, meaning the entire cap will be jumping forward as the pin strikes.

Therefore, after much dryfire with a cap (standard practice, in the target realm), the firing pin will start to be halted by some arresting face on the pin itself instead of the striker hitting the cartridge. On some designs, such as a Lee Enfield, this is more or less ok. But on other designs, such as many Mauser designs, it seems to stress the firing pin tip such that eventually a fracture will occur and the striker tip will break away from the firing pin.

From dry fire (with well-used snap caps), I have broken x2 mausers, x1 Winchester 92, and x2 Omark bolt head retaining pins. Particularly the omark is dangerous in this regard, because you can blow your face off if the bolt head does not rotate with the bolt body.

Moving forward, I feel it's more important to have a correctly headspacing, fireformed case (with the spent primer remaining) than it is to use a snap cap. I just neck-size spent brass from the targetted chamber, then reprime the emptycase. I fire the empty case, to expend the primer. Then I seat this dummy cartridge, and paint the tip hi-viz, signifying dummy. That's what I use when I dry-fire, instead of azoom. No more broken strikers.