You will get all kinds of opinions on this.

I dont count shots and I dry fire a lot. It has never made a mark on
my breach face after two years of shooting 900 almost every week.

I have two Marvels and they work great. Keep them moderately clean
and they will not give you any problem.

X ring accuracy at 50 yards and it is the best deal in .22 BE pistols.

At 10:50 AM 12/7/2005, David H. Daniels said something like:
>So, what is the problem with locking back? Or, not locking back.
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>I know that if you use Ace mags that have the tab, you will damage
>the Marvel unit. OTOH, if you dry fire, as in a sixth shot that is
>not there, you can also damage the chamber(??).
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>So, the answer is to count your shots and stop at five! Gives you
>something for your mind to do rather than think of a shot that may
>have been out of the group. Such thoughts will (likely) cause more
>errant shots. THINK POSITIVE! Let the functions of shooting the
>shot be mostly automatic.
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>JMHO, dd
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