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Used information:
- Wooden bullets used as training ammonition
-Over the years, this issue might have surfaced and discussed in the past,
but there still seems to be some confusion regarding the accuracy of the
following observation:
My dad once mentioned that, as he entered Germany at the close of the war,
he saw piles of "wooden bullets." Many have discounted this as one of the
myths of war, noting that these wooden bullets were simply training rounds
used for nothing more than practice, security, or target sighting. What
seems consistent in the accounts is that they are often described as being
more visible late in the war.
One point of contention was that such rounds would certainly not be lethal,
and would not work in machine guns without a special adapter.
-Others claim that wooden bullets were indeed found among both the German
and Japanese forces, and that these represented ammunition being in short
supply.
Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
- I read somewhere online that Wooden bullets were indeed a cheaper alternative
but that the Germans used them for close in fights because of the damage they
could inflict upon a victim.
- One marine I know who fought on Iwo said a bunch of his buddies were hit by wooden bullets.
The Japanese used them because they were NOT lethal, and wounding one man meant taking 2-3 out of the fight because they stopped to care for the wounded soldier.
- The French also used a green-tipped version in their Lebel rifles, so it was a European thing, not unique to Germany. I have disassembled both the German and French versions and both types were hollow inside and would almost certainly disintegrate upon firing.
- Germany was also not the only nation to use blanks or grenade launching cartridges made in such a fashion. France (8mm Lebel and 7.5x54), Japan (7.7), Britain (.303 for use in the Bren gun), Finland (7.62x39), and even the United States used wooden bullets...
- I always thought the wood bullets were for vampire hunting???? =)
- Many mauser rifles had the muzzle device for shooting them more safely.
- The "running out of materials at the end of the war" is a common myth. The wooden bullet disintegrates immediately on leaving the muzzle of the weapon and was not intended to be lethal.
-They were only used as training rounds to show new recruits how to properly load and fire thier weapons.
- A wooden bullet would never be considered as an improvised ammunition. As stated above
they tend to disintegrate and they do not have the mass required to maintain velocity, accuracy and energy down range.
- Wooden ''bullets'' are also used in riot control by the police. This is an non-leathal weapon
What do you know about wooden bullets?
Thank you for watching!
- Mediocre Monday
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Used information:
- Wooden bullets used as training ammonition
-Over the years, this issue might have surfaced and discussed in the past,
but there still seems to be some confusion regarding the accuracy of the
following observation:
My dad once mentioned that, as he entered Germany at the close of the war,
he saw piles of "wooden bullets." Many have discounted this as one of the
myths of war, noting that these wooden bullets were simply training rounds
used for nothing more than practice, security, or target sighting. What
seems consistent in the accounts is that they are often described as being
more visible late in the war.
One point of contention was that such rounds would certainly not be lethal,
and would not work in machine guns without a special adapter.
-Others claim that wooden bullets were indeed found among both the German
and Japanese forces, and that these represented ammunition being in short
supply.
Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
- I read somewhere online that Wooden bullets were indeed a cheaper alternative
but that the Germans used them for close in fights because of the damage they
could inflict upon a victim.
- One marine I know who fought on Iwo said a bunch of his buddies were hit by wooden bullets.
The Japanese used them because they were NOT lethal, and wounding one man meant taking 2-3 out of the fight because they stopped to care for the wounded soldier.
- The French also used a green-tipped version in their Lebel rifles, so it was a European thing, not unique to Germany. I have disassembled both the German and French versions and both types were hollow inside and would almost certainly disintegrate upon firing.
- Germany was also not the only nation to use blanks or grenade launching cartridges made in such a fashion. France (8mm Lebel and 7.5x54), Japan (7.7), Britain (.303 for use in the Bren gun), Finland (7.62x39), and even the United States used wooden bullets...
- I always thought the wood bullets were for vampire hunting???? =)
- Many mauser rifles had the muzzle device for shooting them more safely.
- The "running out of materials at the end of the war" is a common myth. The wooden bullet disintegrates immediately on leaving the muzzle of the weapon and was not intended to be lethal.
-They were only used as training rounds to show new recruits how to properly load and fire thier weapons.
- A wooden bullet would never be considered as an improvised ammunition. As stated above
they tend to disintegrate and they do not have the mass required to maintain velocity, accuracy and energy down range.
- Wooden ''bullets'' are also used in riot control by the police. This is an non-leathal weapon
What do you know about wooden bullets?
Thank you for watching!
- Mediocre Monday
