Wood bullet?

[S.P.E.C.T.R.E.]

I'm waiting for the ceramic ammo to go with my ceramic glock.

Wow, you must be rich, Glock 7s cost more than I make in two months!

 

[mpmarty]

No, No, No... The Israeli wooden bullet rounds were for grafting trees. The green tips were granny smith, the red tips were Washington Delicious, the maroon tips were Winesaps, and the yellow tips were gravensteins.

 

[Ron James]

mpmarty, you know, that makes more sense than believing they were used in combat in WWII.

 

[Bwana John]

I know an older gentleman who said he had a brother killed by a wooden bullet in the US Army during a training exercise.

 

[Jim Watson]

The real purpose of the wooden bullet is to give the normal profile to the cartridge so it will feed in a bolt action. Its application is the same as a blank, noise for training and maneuvers.

 

[Cliff47]

I remember reading about an Italian pistol that used ammunition that was so low-powered, the round was made out of wood. Galesi?? In an oddball chambering if memory serves. Made around WWII, and not much after that.

 

[Jim Watson]

I dunno about Italian, but the Danish Schueboe was entered in the US service pistol trials that led up to the 1911. It shot a wood-cored jacketed bullet at high velocity so as to get a .45 calibre in a blowback action.

 

[Ron James]

The 9MM Glisenti used a 124 gr. bullet at 1050 FPS at 308 Lbs of energy. It was only low powered compared to the 9MM Parabellum. Because they had very similar measurements, it was easy to confuse the two and the 9X19 will wreck a Glisenti. I'm sorry Cliff47, but once again there are no combat loads or even civilian loads for a pure wood bullet. They simply don't work nor can you make them work. As far as serious injury from a wood bullet, well a blank will kill if fire close enough to the body (the head, from inches away).

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Military Mausers are designed to feed ammo from the magazine.
Blank ammunition for Mauser and Mauser style bolt actions--
German 98K, Arisaka 38, Springfield 03, Enfield P14 and M17--
would have to have dummy bullets to feed properly. Blank
ammunition would be used in combat as a last resort only,
and would be used up-close and personal, hand-to-hand
combat range.

If I recall correctly, the Glisenti round is basically a
9mm parabelleun case, a truncated cone shaped bullet,
and a reduced charge. Italy also used the standard
9mm is pistol NOT Glisenti, and also made a hot round
for the 1938 Berettea submachine gun headstamped "M38".
An M38 round is hot enough to damage a Glisenti pistol.
The Italian Parabelleum and M38 rounds were loaded with
round nose bullets like the 9 mm Luger. It is possible
that blanks were made for the Glisenti with wooden
bullet shaped plugs, but they were not a combat round.

 

[budbarker57]

I only found out this site existed because I was Googling to see if anyone besides my grandfather, army medic Buddy Wall, had been wounded by a Japanese wooden bullet in WWII. He said they didn't get all of the fragments out because there were so many and he had a huge lump in his leg for a long time. I'd seen the scar and asked him what it was. I don't have a dog in this fight, with regard to arguing, I'm just telling you what I know.

 

[Odd Job]

There is great info about all manner of strange cartridges on the IAA forum. Here are some relevant links:

http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5270

http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3342

http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3439

http://cartridgecollectors.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2819

 

[mugsie]

You're all wrong

Wooden bullets are the only things which will stop Pinocchio's gone bad!

 

[heron]

Special-purpose rounds, for inflicting festering splinter wounds.

 

[Judicator]

I've got several boxes of wooden-bullet ammo for my 6.5x55 Swedish Mauser. They're a lot of fun to shoot, very cheap and virtually no recoil.

 

[Deanimator]

grenade launching round
Read sowhere(can't reacall where) that some grenade launchers used wooden bullets. But, I've been wrong before

No, you're correct, about grenade lauching blanks, whether or not in this case.

 

[WardenWolf]

While wooden bullets were primarily used for training rounds, there were a large number of .303 rounds with wooden bases and lead noses. No idea why they were constructed this way, but they were certainly a historical oddball.

 

[Dr. Fresh]

Is there a wood that's hard enough to stay together and actually inflict damage?

If I ever find myself writing a vampire story it could be a cool idea to have some .38s with wood bullets or some such.

 

[WardenWolf]

There's ironwood. It's quite dense and strong.

 

[camp_gunner]

Wooden tipped blanks.

In general these are blanks used in machine guns. As to cycling the action, I spent a great weekend chewing up the brush in front of our Vickers position. We shot about 2000 of these during that reneactment. The wood bullet provides the proper feeding surfaces. The Vickers had a blank firing attachment that finished destroying the bullets, but you would not want to be within about 10 feet of the muzzle.

Current military blanks for the machine guns use an extended case with at star crimp blank to form the "bullet". These work quite well in our 1919A1, which is currently set up for 308. We can get through a bunch of belts in no time at all.

I also have examples of this type of blank for Austrian M95s, British 303s, and many others.

Now as to hunting the vampire with these, well if you get close and stick it up it's re**, I'm sure that you will get a response.

 

[25 Pdr]

Wooden Bullets

In the 60s we were issued wooden bullets for training with the British 303 Bren Gun.

They looked like a MK7 but the bullet was wooden and was coloured blue.

The idea was to cycle the Bren in full auto mode.

Don't think it would operate any weapon other than a gas operated one.

As to lethal effect...........During a night training ambush a friend was accidentally hit,it left him with a slight cut to his forehead. Doubt it would have been lethal but I wouldn't like one in the eye.