Tipton Pistol Snap Caps with False Primer and Reusable Design for Dry-Firing, Gun Maintenance, Gun Storage

We are a gun school in Los Angeles and have been using these for years. They are very well made and very durable. We have them in 9mm and .40 and they have seen hundreds of repetitions of use. They are in as good a shape as the day they arrived.

I love these, great concept.

The product works well

It's not the size of the rounds causing rim lock, it's actually something else. The plastic casing is fitted over the metal "primer" housing, creating a lip of plastic for the rim of the top cartridge to snag on as it attempts to slide forward. The lip is present on each piece in the pack I received, but it's inconsistent and some are way more prominent than others on certain parts. Only 1 in the pack is so bad that there's no way it can be rotated to function normally.It seems more like a minor design flaw than a manufacturing error to me, it's probably inevitable that you'd get these inconsistencies. 1 in 5 being less useable isn't a huge deal, and I'm sure it could be sanded down to fix the problem. Just know that this is likely to come up if you buy some for .32 auto.Tested in a Kel-Tec P32 with OEM 7rd mag, though I don't believe it would be relevant

These dummy rounds are an excellent choice for training

Excellent training tool while saving your firing mechanism. Sturdy product compared to others available. Nice price for brand product

Arrived fast and without issue.I already have these in this and other calibers, have never had an issue with them. Only a few firearms here need to use these, but it is nice to have them and use them in those which are safe to dry fire without a snap cap as well.Also, great for teaching new shooters the proper way to load/unload safely.They also cycle in the Winchester 94AE and (Ruger made) Marlin 1894 lever guns.

I looked and looked here at Amazon for the Tipton Snap Caps to go on sale - paying $16.34 just seemed nuts to me. Just three days ago, I looked and they were marked down to $7.94 for the box of five 9mm Luger. A whopping 50%+ off and I ordered two boxes. Returning often to Amazon has great rewards to a savvy shopper, something I believe Amazon smartly uses to keep us returning.The Tipton 9mm Luger snap caps came today, just 3 days after ordering, actually I believe I ordered very late in the evening, so 2.25 days is more realistic. I always look for a week or two at Amazon, the prices do vary greatly from day to day on many products. As I look now, the Snap Caps I bought 3 days ago for $7.94 are $16.34 - seriously, if you don't need it this minute, wait and catch a one day mark-down, I got 10 snap caps for the price of 5. BRAVO on the very fast delivery too, from Knoxville, TN to NJ is NOT a hop, skip and jump away and I chose regular delivery, nothing faster.As for the Tipton Snap Caps, wow! Very cool indeed. Dry firing your weapons is a great way to keep sharp, whether loading, firing, swapping magazines, racking the slide, practicing for failure to feed, failure to fire or any other motions you want to practice. Even at the range, have someone load your magazines for you and place random snap caps among live rounds to practice expelling a bad round and racking a new one.We all know any rim-fire guns should never be dry fired, and sadly I see poor reviews for the Tipton 22lr snap caps, but most center fire guns can dry fire without harm, but in the same thought, why risk the chance of slamming your firing pin against nothing when you can fire it with these beauties?There is no mistaking them for live rounds, they are brilliantly made. I can see a box will last a very long time. I have seen on Youtube people with concerns whether a well used snap cap will indent deep enough in the brass that it will be useless as a way to have your firing pin hit against it - but in reply I saw a Youtuber showing how the indent in the primer area was not all that happened, the spring also gave way to the force of the firing pin, so the indent PLUS the inward motion of the primer spring absorbed the force of the firing pin, thus only leaving a given dent into the snap cap primer area - better put, even after a thousand dry fires, the divot in the snap cap primer still contacted the firing pin as the snap cap spring absorbed the additional force of the firing pin.So whether it is to see if your firing pin is centered, or practice all your steps at handling your firearm, I believe these will do the job BETTER than any other snap cap you can buy.Great product, fast service and awesome price - can't ask for anything better.