Swedish Mauser question

[Snow123]

Why were wood blanks never permitted to be fired from the swedish mauser sniper rifles? you know, the ones with the 29" non-threaded barrel.

 

[Andy]

What training scenario with a Sniper Rifle would prescribe their use?

I think that answers it.

 

[Snow123]

I was just asking because I seen this on another site.

Note: A "B" prefix was applied by the Swedish military to all rifles with barrels threaded at the muzzle for the blank firing device-"Gevär m/96B," "Gevär m/96-38B," and Gevär m/38B." Blanks were never permitted to be fired from the sniper rifles, and therefore, their barrels were never threaded at the muzzle. The suffix, "B", in m/41B indicates a sniper rifle modified to 1955 standards.

 

[saskgunowner101]

My swede lacks the thread at the barrel tip, but it has a smaller circumference than the rest of the barrel...should this mean something to me?? .686 barrel, .606 for the last .475-ish of barrel.

 

[Snow123]

I think this is only for Carl Gustaf rifles.

 

[John Sukey]

why would you want to fire blanks from a rifle that is intended for long range shooting?

 

[Snow123]

why would you want to fire blanks from a rifle that is intended for long range shooting?

I know what you are saying, but it made me wonder if they were bad for the gun when I read "Blanks were never permitted to be fired from the sniper rifles".

 

[Calum]

Some of you guys are over thinking this...

Not having a threaded barrel means no blank firing adapter can be attached, which means the wooden practice bullets would not be shredded in the device.

They would instead leave the barrel as projectiles...which is not good in a training situation.

Also I'd hazard to guess that before you got near a sniping rifle one would have had plenty of chances at a regular infantry rifle with the threaded barrel.

http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/rifles_se/faq_se_rifles.htm

 

[Snow123]

Great info, thanks Calum.

 

[bearhunter]

I used to fire a lot of the wooden bullets when brass was hard to come by, so I could scrounge the brass. Then I found out about 7.62x51 blanks, fire formed and shortened them instead.
None of the wooden bullets ever hit the cardboard backstop 10 feet away. Most of them shattered into splinters. A few of them took off in erratic directions.
The wood bullets are hollow and by the time the rifling deforms them dureing twist and they exit the bbl at 35000 rpm, they usually spin to powder.
There was the very odd one that would remain whole. Thats probably why the insist on a blank firing device being fitted when shooting wooden bullets.

 

[BUSHMAN79]

They do make gruesome wound on raccoons at five feet. Without ventilating my porch, too!