Wooden bullets

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bandmiller2 posted this 18 October 2015

Have any of you fellas tried wooden bullets, they would be good for close range practice or yard varmenting yet loose velocity rapidly and pose little danger at a distance. A lathe could be set up using dowels for pointing and cutting. Frank C.

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RicinYakima posted this 18 October 2015

Well, I shot a bunch of the 6.5X55 Swede ammo with the wooden bullets. They gave acceptable accuracy at 25 meters they were designed for.

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delmarskid1 posted this 18 October 2015

A 5/16” dowel comes in at about .312 and can be put in a pencil sharpener

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onondaga posted this 18 October 2015

I use wooden bullets in my 37mm CM2037 launcher on my AR, but I prefer Fletchette Beehive AP rounds for Civilian Defense instead of non-lethal wooden batons.

Gary

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joeb33050 posted this 18 October 2015

I can't melt the twigs! How do you melt the wood? Do you Flux? Will my Lyman dipper work? Bottom pour?

Oh, the flames!

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mike morrison posted this 18 October 2015

worked with a wwII vet years ago who told me during the war he was in the pacific (don't remember where) he said one morning he was doing his duty strddeling a trench squatted with his pants down. A Jap sniper shot him with a wooden bullet. He showed me a scar on the calf of his leg about the size of a quarter. That story is all my experience with wooden bullets except the one in a ctg. collection.

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bandmiller2 posted this 19 October 2015

I wonder if stabilization would a problem as they would be very light for the length.?? Probably a wax lube would be best. Would tickle me no end for my garden woodchuck to get a dose of splinters. Frank C.

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gpidaho posted this 19 October 2015

I'd never thought about wooden bullets or even heard of such but it seems to me that if you turned a very long bore rider it should work like a crossbow bolt. Interesting. Gp

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Mustafa Curtess posted this 21 October 2015

I am a serious dog-lover - but there are limits. When I bought my present house, and was involved in re-habilitating it, my neighbor's (huge) Pit Bull seriously challenged my right to come and go as necessary. Pit Bulls can not be won over and neutralized by the ordinary strategies that allow us to become accepted by any other breed. I had been experimenting with “cellotex” plugs cut with an arch-punch of a compatible diameter, and soaked in molten bullet lube of my choice. I  just happened to have a 50 box of 44 mag ammo concocted with a very small charge of a very fast powder, for a Ruger SBH. Things quickly arrived at the point when I found myself thinking twice before leaving the house for any reason at all. I finally zapped that (otherwise beautiful) individual broadside in the shoulder at about 2.5 yds. He departed in haste, stopping to lay down and rub his shoulder on the turf of the vacant lot between my house and his - several times. There was no blood-shed or any other serious damage, but that fellow never ventured even close to my property again.

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