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Twest,
from CA, United States
Written on January 23, 2026
These Tipton Snap Caps offers thousands of uses each for safety training, function testing, and stoppage drills, all without fear of damaging your striker or firing pin! You don’t have to dry-fire your weapon with an empty chamber anymore, Snap Caps will cycle through your weapon just as reliably as real ammunition, allowing for a safe and effective way to test function without the danger of live ammunition.
Would recommend: Yes
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bruna1943,
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from FL, United States
Written on May 13, 2018
The snap caps in .223/5.56 work as advertised. They protect the firing pin from damage and are good for dry fire practice (e.g. trigger pull, loading magazines, clearing malfunctions, ejections, etc). Highly recommended.
Would recommend: Yes
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Buy these to practice dry fire without damaging your rimfire gun
Pros: Low cost, durable
Would recommend: Yes
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from OR, United States
Written on February 21, 2011
Both work, though one "ejects" and one merely falls out when extracted from a 700 action. Seem well made.
Would recommend: Yes
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I own many snap caps & these are my favorites.
Pros: Durable & inexpensive
Would recommend: Yes
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from TX, United States
Written on April 15, 2010
It is a very good product, but i really recomend to Tipton to build this in 22 LR size. I am using it witha 22 LR rifle with great results, regarding the dificulty of placing the Cap in the bore.
Pros: Great quality, works very well if your arm can use a short .22
Cons: A little trouble using it witha 22 lr rifle.
Would recommend: Yes
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About the size of .22 shorts, can be a bit sticky in feed tube (probably tip of cap going into hollow center of neighboring cap), all plastic, no spring, will probably need to throw out after a few "shots"
Pros: Help avoid dry firing, when testing or teaching
Cons: Shows firing pin dent, ultimately disposable
Would recommend: Yes
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from PA, United States
Written on December 17, 2009
These snapcaps are great. They work how anyone would expect them to work. I have an M1A and they chamber and extract without fail every time. Well worth the money, buy with confidence.
Pros: Work how they're supposed to.
Cons: None, really
Would recommend: Yes
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from PA, United States
Written on December 17, 2009
I bought these .22LR snap caps thinking that they would be able to help me train with FTE malfunctions, and the like, in my Sig Mosquito. Boy, was I wrong. They're too short to chamber, so everytime you want a dummy round in there you have to manual put it in the tube and close the action.
There's absolutely no way one would be able to mix and match live rounds with these "dummy" rounds to practice with, unlike the larger caliber Tiptons, those are great. They would just stove-pipe out or not allow the action to close.
Extremely frustrating and not worth the money. If they were long enough to chamber properly this review would be much different.
Pros: They're durable, I guess.
Cons: Too short to chamber. What's the point?
Would recommend: No
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