wood bullets

[Spawn-Inc]

anyone ever make any or try them, just curious how they would work out. i'm thinking they would just loose their velocity within 5-10 yards and fall.

 

[legi0n]

nope, they just stop in mid-air and stay there

now seriously, wooden bullets would most likely shatter on impact

 

[Freyr_255]

Eh...could work out alright with some purple heartwood. I would say range limit of 20m and only from a shotgun.

 

[RickP]

Try that and we'll not only have Wendy at us but Elizabeth May as well.

 

[Gun5tuff]

I'll sell you 100 lb of wood pellets, a lifetime supply of ammo.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

nope, they just stop in mid-air and stay there

now seriously, wooden bullets would most likely shatter on impact

lol, well i mean start to loose their effectiveness.

anyhow i loaded up 5 rounds of .45 for the trip to the range saturday. i will post how they group at 7m.

i just roughly cut up wood dowel and very roughly shaped it on a drill press.

 

[Kelly Timoffee]

The smell of fresh cut pine AND gun powder???

That is damn near a new Axe deodorant flavor!

 

[coyote]

try some out and let us know how they work lod some in a 223 or something I bet it will kill a gopher at 50 yds

 

[blacksmithden]

Hummmm. Never thought of trying it. Should be interesting.

 

[legi0n]

what powder are you using and how much?

 

[Northman999]

I'd bet if you turn some out of Ironwood and shoot them out of a .45 colt lever action with ballard rifling, over a load of Trail Boss, you'd have something going there.

(or a similar load in a Marlin 45-70 that worked),

 

[Win Shooter]

years ago I had a bunch of WW2 Japanese ammo with wooden bullets. Effective range, who knows but I bet the wounds from splinters would be horrendous.

 

[tootall]

Wood bullets have been used for blanks.
They are hollowed out so that they shred on firing. Still hazardous at short range though!

 

[CRAZYLOCH]

OK Someone better post a pic of the "wood" bullet and loaded round

 

[bearhunter]

Loaded wood bullets?

I have a few thousand cartridges loaded by the Swedes with wood bullets. As mentioned, they were for practise or blanks. The powder they are loaded with is a Rottweil flake type that works great in 45 LC cases with cast bullets.

Send me an email address and I will send you pics of the bullets.

 

[Guy JR]

A friend of mine turned up a few 1 1/2" projectiles out of hardwood for his cannon. They only want about 40' before they splintered into a million pieces.

 

[HKMark23]

try some out and let us know how they work lod some in a 223 or something I bet it will kill a gopher at 50 yds

Or it might spruce him up a bit .

 

[dead meat]

I suppose caragana would be a little on the soft side for good penetration. I could borrow Sksavengers 300 short mag to try, maybe i shouldn`t tell him what i want to test.

 

[hitch.bd]

lol, well i mean start to loose their effectiveness.

anyhow i loaded up 5 rounds of .45 for the trip to the range saturday. i will post how they group at 7m.

i just roughly cut up wood dowel and very roughly shaped it on a drill press.

What did the dowel weigh out to? I'm also curious about the stability in flight. I'm looking forward to a range report. If they work out you can carve little crosses on them and market them as vampire slayers. Then we'll have to change your name to SPAWN OF BUFFY!!

 

[mooncoon]

Wood bullets have been used for blanks.
They are hollowed out so that they shred on firing. Still hazardous at short range though!

My impression is that many of them were solid and the rifle had a shredder or splitter screwed on the muzzle of the gun. That is the reason for the threaded muzzle on swedish mausers for example. As I understand it, when the bullet left the muzzle, it was split into 4 pieces

cheers mooncoon