3 Pack - TRT Tap Rack Dry Fire Safety Training Aid 9MM/.40 Cal Pistol Magazine Dummy Ammo

Excellent product! Really useful for training. Worth every penny.

High quality and work as advertised.

We have Mantis Laser Academy and my wife is using it to learn to handle a handgun better, before she goes shooting. These dummy rounds allow her to rack the pistol with dropping the mag or depressing the slide release. I know it's important for her to know these things, but she is working on racking, grip and target acquisition. These allow her to keep the 15rnd mag in, helping her grip the fairly short frame. Perfect. Easy to install and remove.

I use these to practice racking the slide on reloads as well as malfunction drills. As mentioned by other reviewers, these aren't dummy rounds, but they all you to rack the slide without going to slide lock. I only have 2 minor complaints. First, it seems to make it harder to release the magazines during reloading - I have to change my grip slightly and depress the mag release a little harder than usual. Secondly, as mentioned by another reviewer, they are a bit of a pain to remove from the magazine. However, I have a small punch in my range bag, and there's a little indent in these guys you can press with the punch then it's not so hard. Overall, a training tool I use almost every day with my laser cartridge for dry fire practice.

These fulfilled their purpose perfectly. I have usef them before but needed some more for other magazines. As some other reviewers have mentioned, it is not a dummy round, but this inserts in your magazine and override’s the slide lock function so you can practice your tap and racks, malfunction clearing and do full slide racks during dry fire. Works perfectly in Glock single stack magazines. I can confirm it does NOT work with S&W shield 9mm magazines as it does not fit into the top of the magazine. Dummy rounds/snap caps are a great training tool and you absolutely should use them. This is an excellent training tool as well and highly recommend them for training purposes, especially if you use MantisX for your training.

Usually for dry fire, I would load the mag with "snap caps" or "dummy rounds". However, each dry fire round results in one of the plastic bullets being ejected from the pistol. After the mag is empty, I had to hunt for all the dummy plastic bullets, and reload them into the mag for more dry fire practice. A single one of these Safety Training dummy rounds (and no other dummy bullets) are loaded into the mag. The special dummy sits on top of the mag follower but is a flattened shape that is not caught and pushed into the chamber when the slide moves forward. This special dummy round just continues to sit in the magazine. Additionally, this dummy holds the magazine follower down so it can't catch and hold the slide back; the slide goes forward (but nothing is actually pushed into the chamber). So, push this into the top of an empty mag, and rack the slide. When you release the slide after pulling it back, the slide goes forward and the trigger is reset. Dry fire and rack the slide, dry fire and rack the slide. No reloading the mag, no hunting for the dummy rounds. This round can also be used to practice the procedure for "mis-fires" (bullet completely fails to fire) and "hang fires" (when the bullet fires several seconds later after the trigger is pulled). With only this special training dummy in the mag, pretend that you have been shooting live ammo. Then, rack the slide and pull the trigger. When the gun fails to fire, you have a possible mis-fire. You can now practice your "Tap and Rack" procedure for clearing mis-fires.

Really useful to use in conjunction with a laser training device. Highly recommend.

I have the Ruger Security 9 Compact. I wanted something that was inexpensive to help with my trigger pull till I can get a lazer training system. This helps a lot as it keeps the slide from getting locked back. I can do this several times getting a feel for what I am doing. I understand that some users depending on the model of the gun need to do a little filing got get it to work. Mine worked fine right out of the bag.