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Post by Sasquatch on Sept 28, 2006 20:17:33 GMT -5
I've been wanting to post about this forever, and finally remembered.
Years ago, a man in the conservation club that I was in won as a prize at a meeting a box of wooden bullets. I swear, I'm not kidding! They were centerfire rounds, some kind of big rifle. The bullets that would have ordinarily been lead were wood. I handled them myself. The cases were ordinary brass. I'm fairly certain that they would fragment at the shot, and I know they could not fly straight. So, my question is, has anyone ever seen these, and what in the heck were they for?? I swear I was sober!
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Post by Russ Koon on Sept 29, 2006 1:15:50 GMT -5
The subject sounded interesting, and I had no idea what they would have been for, so I did a search on Google for "wooden bullets".
Seems that rounds such as you describe were used by the Germans, and maybe also by the Japanese, during WW II, in violation of the Geneva Convention rules, and their main purpose was apparently to splinter as they entered the body, causing more time to taken by the medical personnel in removing all the fragments. One report said many boxes of them were captured in Normandy following the D-day invasion.
So, the likely explanation would be that they were a somewhat rare war souvenir of an illegal enemy weapon.
I remember Dad having a wooden knife that he brought home from his service in Europe in that war. It was supposedly a German paratroopers hideout weapon. I don't know what kind of metal detection devices were in use at the time, but the avoidance of detection by one would be the only advantage I could see for such a weapon.
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Post by mbogo on Sept 29, 2006 5:03:13 GMT -5
Many countries in the WWII era also used rounds with wooden bullets as blanks for grenade launching and practice purposes.
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Post by Decatur on Sept 29, 2006 6:14:27 GMT -5
Many countries in the WWII era also used rounds with wooden bullets as blanks for grenade launching and practice purposes. Yep! |
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Sept 29, 2006 8:04:55 GMT -5
Very interesting posts.
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Post by Sasquatch on Sept 29, 2006 14:55:53 GMT -5
Hmmm. Well, isn't that bizzare! Thanks, guys!
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Post by supr87gt on Oct 3, 2006 9:05:39 GMT -5
This topic brings something to mind. At the airport getting on a plane, isnt it a metal detector that you walk through? It's not an xray machine. Therefore, a terrorist could widdle a knife and keep it tucked away and get right through the metal detector. Am I wrong here?
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Post by kevin1 on Oct 3, 2006 10:10:16 GMT -5
This topic brings something to mind. At the airport getting on a plane, isnt it a metal detector that you walk through? It's not an xray machine. Therefore, a terrorist could widdle a knife and keep it tucked away and get right through the metal detector. Am I wrong here? It would be easier to just buy a plastic dagger at a flea market . I've also seen plenty of them in catalogs like Cheaper than Dirt and the Bud K catalog . budk.com/product.asp?pn=CHP |
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Post by supr87gt on Oct 3, 2006 10:21:54 GMT -5
Yep something like that even. They could hijack a plane as easy as that. I think...
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 3, 2006 11:10:26 GMT -5
For a lot of folks if you wanted to hijack a airplane,just mention a gun and most would either give up or pass out. I can not believe how times have changed, my neighbors wife will not visit since she found out we have several guns in our house.
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 3, 2006 12:48:22 GMT -5
Several companies make ceramic knifes..
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