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What about pulling the wooden bullets out and replace with an actual bullet?No.
Not worthwhile.
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.."I supposed I could have answered my own question had I came across this J&Gsales article. Nice!
6.5×55 Swede ammo with wooden bullets?
This is original Swedish military issue M14 6.5×55 Mauser ammo, with a wooden bullet. Here at J&G we have some of this interesting ammo in stock and we get asked, “What would I do wi…jggunsmith.wordpress.com
Yes, perhaps they were blank cartridges. none the less, ol' pop thought that the "Krauts" were down to using wooden bullets. Several years ago, I was at a gun show and bought a case of "Limited Flight" bullets in 7.62 X 39MM. The projectiles were plastic. I never fired a single round and ended up selling them to someone else.When I was a teenager in the 1960's, those 8mm German blanks could be bought. I think they cost a nickel apiece. We bought them, thinking they were "last ditch" material made at the end of the war. Not so, they were blank cartridges. We tried to see what impact they would make. At very close ranges, we never could see any evidence of a hit. Maybe the wood bullet just combusted or disintegrated.
The powder used in any blank cartridge is way too fast to be used for propelling an actual projectile.
Yes, perhaps they were blank cartridges. none the less, ol' pop thought that the "Krauts" were down to using wooden bullets.
I was at a gun show and bought a case of "Limited Flight" bullets in 7.62 X 39MM.
Yeah, that's what we thought too. But these many years later, I've thought if they were so short of copper and lead as to use wood for bullets, they would've been short on brass as well. The wooden tipped blanks we had then had brass casings. By the late war years, the Germans were using steel casings on most of their small arms cartridges. So if they'd really intended to use non-strategic materials, such "last ditch" rounds logically would've had steel casings. And maybe they did have some steel cased blanks and I just never saw any. But they were still blanks and not designed for lethal results.
The Germans were pretty clever with chemicals. I'm thinking if they'd come up with a substitute bullet, it might've been made with some kind of synthetic petroleum-based material crossed with powdered iron or some such. Which would've flown much better than wood and with let
I'm not familiar with these. I wonder if these were designed for riot control? The east bloc governments were always afraid of internal resistance. Like E. Germany, 1953, Hungary, 1956, Czecho. 1968, numerous Polish uprisings beginning in 1956, etc.