Blank Firing Adaptor?

SFA as far as I'm concerned. Only needed for semis or autos to get enough gas pressure to cycle. Unless maybe it is to shoot other caliber blanks if you don't have 7.92 x 57's.
 
"...old style of blanks used a hollow wooden bullet..." Yep, but they weren't hollow. Soft wood. Not that it matters.
 
isn't that how the guy in the Crow got killed? im a little lazy to look it up but something about a wood blank in the barrel... could be totally wrong which wouldn't surprise me.
 
GEWEHR76;

Yes they can be used to protect the crown when cleaning, HOWEVER the primary pupose was, as mentioned by others here, to destroy wood bullets that were on the blank catridges....

If you look carefully you will note that these adapter are rifled.... The rifling turns in the opposite direction of that present in the bore.... Resulting in shreaded bullets....
John
 
Talquin said:
isn't that how the guy in the Crow got killed? im a little lazy to look it up but something about a wood blank in the barrel... could be totally wrong which wouldn't surprise me.
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From Wiki

On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which Lee's character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains (Fun-boy), was supposed to fire a gun at Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) as he walked into his apartment.

Because the movie's second unit team was running behind schedule, it was decided that dummy cartridges (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional but contain no gunpowder or primer) would be made from real cartridges by pulling out the bullet, dumping out the gunpowder and reinserting the bullet. However, the team neglected to consider that the primer was still live and, if fired, could still produce enough force to push the bullet off the end of the cartridge. At some point prior to the fatal scene, the live primer on one of the constructed dummy rounds was discharged by persons unknown while in the pistol's chamber. It caused a squib load, in which the primer provided just enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver.

The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with low-power black powder blanks. However, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Lee
 
The Swedish Mausers that have threaded muzzles were made for a BFA to break up the hollow wood bullets. Sounds similar.
 
Chronor said:
The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with low-power black powder blanks. However, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the point-blank firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.
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Everything true except this part.The gun was then loaded with very hot full loads with flash powder,not black powder.When it was all said and done Brandon was shot with what amounted to a +p+ .44 hollow point.
 
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