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Wooden bullets????
« on: January 27, 2009, 09:05:11 AM »
Hi guys,
 I was digging in my drawer of old and obsolete bullets today and ran across a couple oddities. Maybe someone can shed some light on for me. Just curiosity here.

 Here is two wooden bullet rounds. The bigger is a 30 Army round and the smaller is a 38Colt.






 Got a whole bunch in here, This drawer is 14" long, 10" wide and about 4" deep and its FULL!!! I really need to sort threw them and find a way to display them...



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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 09:34:41 AM »
traning blanks .
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 09:35:19 AM »
some have said crowd control also .
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 09:28:03 AM »
They may also contain lead shot.
Shake them next to your ear and see if you can hear the shot rattling.
In the 19th and early 20th century, a vareity of cartridges were offered with wooden bullets that contained shot. So don't assume that they're only blanks.
If you have plenty, or it's not a full box, you may want to sacrifice one and pull the bullet.
In my own collection I have a .30-40 blank with a waxed cardboard bullet. I also have a dummy 8mm Mauser round with a wooden bullet.
The German 8mm blanks of WW II, and probably WWI, were made with wooden bullets to ensure functioning.
I recall reading the experiences of a German at Normandy on D-Day. He said that every day they were expecting some visiting general and were issued 8mm blanks with wooden bullets for a "repelling the Allies" demonstration. Their loaded ammo was taken away, to ensure no one got shot with the real deal.
Well, the allies started to invade and all his group of soldiers had were blanks with wooden bullets! It was a tense hour or so, of shooting blanks at invading Allied troops just for show, before they finally got REAL ammo!

It's off-topic, I know, but humorous. The Foul-Up Gods love the military, any military!

If you know a friendly dentist, he may X-ray those cartridges for you. If he's a shooter, buy him a box of cartridges for his trouble. If he's not, a letter explaining what you found would be interesting to him.

I can live without the flying jet-cars of the future we were promised back in the 50s, but I'd sure like to have my own, portable, inexpensive X-ray machine! Imagine the fun!  ;D
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 09:31:07 AM »
"He said that every day they were expecting some visiting general ..."

I meant "on that day" not "every day," ... dang it. Should have proofread that before I hit post ... <grumble>  >:(
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2009, 06:46:54 AM »
I have some 6.5X53R ammo with purple wooden bullets.  I've pulled a bullet and they are hollow inside and I've fired them at cardboard from about 4 ft. and not a splinter hit it, completely disintergrated before getting there.  They look like a 160 gr. round nose.
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2009, 07:17:04 AM »
6.5 Swede used wooden bullets for training, with a shredder at the muzzle
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2009, 08:52:08 AM »
My dad's friend Bob Ring had a WWII generals Luger that had cases made out of wood for the presentation pistol.  I know it was a generals pistol as I met the german general who gave it to him at one of Bob's parties.
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2009, 08:54:29 AM »
Sorry rereading it after I hit send and it sounds like I ment a presentation box, I do not I mean 9X19 ammo cases with FMJ bullets and primers made out of wood.  I do not know if the primers and bullets were just glued in place or were real with powder.
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2009, 09:34:24 AM »
Guys ! :o
The Japanese had to use wooden bullets at the end of the war since they ran out of metal or time to make or both. These wooden bullets were not blanks. ::)
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Re: Wooden bullets????
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2009, 12:59:24 PM »
"Got a whole bunch in here, This drawer is 14" long, 10" wide and about 4" deep and its FULL!!! I really need to sort threw them and find a way to display them..."

CW, Sorry about the mess you have to contend with :'(
If you would like I would be more than happy to pay the shipping
if you want to just chuck that OLD stuff that you will never shoot
into a box and ship it to me ;)

I will be more than happy to send you some pictures that you could share
 with Family and friends to show what kind of pack rat you used to be ::)

Just think about what you could use that drawer for. ;D

As always, a friend just trying to help, ::)
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