Description
A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps are solid aluminum dummy shells in 410 bore, two to a pack. Most 410s are break actions, youth guns or single shots, and all three categories use firing pins that break when you snap them on an empty chamber.
How A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps Are Built
Each shell is CNC machined from solid aluminum billet to 410 bore dimensions and hard anodized. There is no plastic hull and no crimped end to split, so nothing swells, deforms or leaves a torn body behind after a few hundred cycles.
The rim end carries a proprietary polymer cushion in place of a primer, rated by A-Zoom past three thousand strikes. Break action guns often use slender rebounding firing pins, and that cushion is exactly what those pins need.
Because A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps are dimensionally correct, they chamber and extract like real shells rather than sitting loose and telling you nothing about the gun.
Why Break Actions Need Them Most
Single shots, over-unders and side-by-sides in 410 are the guns most likely to break a firing pin from dry fire, and the manuals usually say so directly. A pair of snap caps in the chambers turns letting the hammers down into a safe routine rather than an act of damage.
The 410 is also the classic first shotgun, which means it gets handled by new shooters learning to load, close, open and unload. Doing that repetition with A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps means the habits get built before any live shell enters the room.
Revolver owners occasionally want them too. Several 410 capable revolvers and derringers exist, and confirming that a chamber accepts and ejects a full length shell cleanly is easier with an inert one in hand.
- Gauge: 410 bore
- Quantity: 2 per pack
- Construction: CNC machined solid aluminum, hard anodized
- Primer: proprietary polymer dead cap, rated 3,000+ dry fires
- Design: one piece, no plastic hull to split or swell
- Uses: dry fire practice, loading and unloading drills, hammer release, ejector checks
- Made in the USA
- Manufacturer item: PA12215 / UPC 666692122156
Field Notes
Ejector and extractor timing on a double gun is worth checking with dummies. Opening the action on A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps shows whether both barrels are lifting or throwing shells the way they should without wasting live ammunition.
They are also the right way to store a break gun. Hammers down on snap caps rather than on empty chambers keeps the springs relaxed and the pins unstressed between seasons.
The polymer cushion is a consumable. When the face is visibly cratered and stops rebounding, retire that shell rather than continuing to strike a dead cushion.
Shooting a larger bore as well? The line covers 12 gauge in a five pack and 10 gauge in a two pack. Construction details are published by A-Zoom.
For youth guns, break actions and anyone teaching a new shooter, A-Zoom 410 Bore Snap Caps are the sensible buy. MAG5 Firearms stocks them as manufacturer item PA12215 in the two pack.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.