wood bullets

CRAZYLOCH said:
OK Someone better post a pic of the "wood" bullet and loaded round :D:D
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This thread topic of conversation brought back memories of an old bullet I had received many years ago in an assortment of other cartridges. I don't know but I was told it is actually an early shot capsule but I have nothing to confirm that. Here's a couple of quick scanned pictures of it.

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The German army used wood bullets during WWII, but to my knowledge their only purpose was to launch grenades from the Schießbecher grenade launcher.
 
mooncoon said:
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
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I have heard of the shredder device, but never seen one.
My blanks (both 7.62x51 and 8x57) are definitely hollow inside.
 
Not far from us is a Holly farm. They ship world wide for the Christmas season. In early spring, about now, they prune the trees to encourage growth. I wander the rows and pick up the larger chunks of branch and dry them above my wood stove. When dry, I have a dowel cutter that I fit in the drill press. It is just the right size to fit in 30 cal. When I get a couple hundred I load up a bunch for zombies. They aren't the same as a holly stake driven through the heart but being flat nosed they get good knock-down and splinter on impact to accomplish the same thing.

I can't see using any other wood than Holly for a wooden bullet, I mean, what would be the use? Especially in this day and age. Particularly on this day!
 
Greg S said:
Not far from us is a Holly farm. They ship world wide for the Christmas season. In early spring, about now, they prune the trees to encourage growth. I wander the rows and pick up the larger chunks of branch and dry them above my wood stove. When dry, I have a dowel cutter that I fit in the drill press. It is just the right size to fit in 30 cal. When I get a couple hundred I load up a bunch for zombies. They aren't the same as a holly stake driven through the heart but being flat nosed they get good knock-down and splinter on impact to accomplish the same thing.

I can't see using any other wood than Holly for a wooden bullet, I mean, what would be the use? Especially in this day and age. Particularly on this day!
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Uh, Im pretty sure the only way to kill a zombie is to remove the head. You would use a wooden stake to kill a vampire!
 
Johnn Peterson said:
This thread topic of conversation brought back memories of an old bullet I had received many years ago in an assortment of other cartridges. I don't know but I was told it is actually an early shot capsule but I have nothing to confirm that. Here's a couple of quick scanned pictures of it.

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Unbelieveable Johnn.
What else is it you have in your collection? :rolleyes:
Send me the Genie in the bottle, eye need a couple of wishes granted.:D
I promise to send it back.
Cheers.
:cheers:
Looky.
Oh, the moose out on a date?
It's just not right that you post a photo without it.
Eye'm serious. :pirate:
 
kamlooky said:
Unbelieveable Johnn.
What else is it you have in your collection? :rolleyes:
Send me the Genie in the bottle, eye need a couple of wishes granted.:D
I promise to send it back.
Cheers.
:cheers:
Looky.
Oh, the moose out on a date?
It's just not right that you post a photo without it.
Eye'm serious. :pirate:
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The one you speak of is one of two I use in posted pictures of firearms. For all other and related topics, I have a collection I've saved that I can draw from. For example, here's one I've saved of what I'd call my favorite car wash:D.

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Years ago a friend found a case of wooden darts (no feathers) and one day I noticed that they were a good fit for my .625 ca. Trade musket. What fun! 70 grs FF , some wadding and the dart would bury itself in a poplar at 20 -30 yards!
 
Johnn Peterson said:
The one you speak of is one of two I use in posted pictures of firearms. For all other and related topics, I have a collection I've saved that I can draw from. For example, here's one I've saved of what I'd call my favorite car wash:D.

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Good on you Johnn.
Eye bet this one can wink as well? ;)
My buddies up in G.P. have the same photo other
than the truck is brown.
Hope the moosie don't eat the paint.
Thanks for sharing.
Looky.
 
legi0n said:
what powder are you using and how much?
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not really sure, i just dipped the brass into the jug, and eye'd it to be roughly what i normally see when loading .45 which would be 5.1 grains. so that is the max, otherwise a bit less. i didn't want to much in there.


the dowel was from those foam paint brushes. everything was to eye and done in 10 minutes for 5 rounds.

here they are.

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pending on how they do i may just go to crappy tire and get a dowel or 2 and spend more time cutting and trying to do things with more precision. then properly weigh each load and so on.

i cycled them through my 1911 and they worked just great, i was a bit surprised. i think it's due to the over crimping.
 
That factory wooden bullet possibly has shot in it. A friend of my father's was a cartridge collector when I was a boy. He showed me one like that; said they used to come that way - factory made. Never researched it, but possible, especially if it was a light wood like boxwood.

As to the idea of a purely wooden bullet, fired from a normally rifled firearm, I would say you're going to have problems. The light weight would give great velocity, but the it would also make gyroscopic stability almost impossible unless you had something like 1 in 2" rifling. (Quick on-line check for a .224 bullet with a nominal weight of 5 gr and a MV of 3,000 fps shows wildly unstable bullets until rifling looks like a lug-nut.)

The larger the calibre, of course, the easier it would be. Small calibres like the .223 require a much higher rate of spin than, say, a .30 calibre and they are themselves much higher than the spin on something like an artillery round. So, a .45? Maybe.

I'd wonder at the obturation, too.
 
"...start to loose their effectiveness..." None to start with. The milsurp, etc. cartridges you see with a wood bullet are blanks.
"...will post how they group..." Loaded with what?
"...actually frozen blood..." Ice bullets are pure fiction.
 
This sounds like a new age weapon against vampires...
the o'l stake through the heart...now a wooden carbined bullet refined for accuracy and a more precisioned kill.... available exclusively at designated WereWolF TacK Outfitters near you...
also on sale, silver bullet tipped cartridges for those pesky night prowlers...

get your very own night stalkers kit, on a limited time offer....

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lol, the reason i started this whole thing was because i just got into reloading and ran out of lead bullets and wanted to find some cheap source for bullets. should be interesting to see how they turn out.
 
tootall said:
I have heard of the shredder device, but never seen one.
My blanks (both 7.62x51 and 8x57) are definitely hollow inside.
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The old 303 Bren gun used the wooden bullets with a muzzle shredder.
During inter-unit hockey games at CFB Petawawa a Sgt from the Regimental Museum would show up in WW2 battle dress and fire a few bursts with this infernal device full auto, every time our hockey team scored a goal.
It was f@cking loud inside the indoor rink!! :eek:
 
Brutus said:
The old 303 Bren gun used the wooden bullets with a muzzle shredder.
During inter-unit hockey games at CFB Petawawa a Sgt from the Regimental Museum would show up in WW2 battle dress and fire a few bursts with this infernal device full auto, every time our hockey team scored a goal.
It was f@cking loud inside the indoor rink!! :eek:
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That's entertainment!:50cal:
 
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