Bren Blanks

[Peter Laidler]

We always had the fear of god put into us about the dangers of finding this bulletted blank ammo on the training areas and loading it into our bog standard rifles instead of the normal short crimp blank issued to us for our rifles. I remember being shown how a bulletted Bren blank would blow seven bells out of an old bucket etc etc and how it would kill our friends at a mile or so............ All a load of old bol........... er....., rubbish now I know.

But at what distance would the wooden bullet travel from a rifle barrel before it broke up into harmless pieces?

The puzzling thing about Cinders ammo is how did RG bulletted blank end up in Oz? I certainly don't remember RG bulletted blank there - or any bulletted blank.