Wooden 8mm Mauser Bullet

[green]

Never saw a reference to wood bullet gallery cartridge. The .303" Canadian Gallery Practice Cartridges used a lead bullet as did the US ones in 30-40, 30-03 and 30-06.

[browningautorifle]

Never saw a reference to wood bullet gallery cartridge.

I've only seen reference to it in forum such as this...never in written PAM or CAMT or such...official. So that makes it hearsay or supposition.

[freedomintheskies]

I ran across a thread yesterday which had a link to an e-book that talked about finding crates of the stuff in France. Seems the Germans used the stuff quite a bit and using it for practice makes absolute sense. In the book though, the author makes mention of it being used against British troops in the Caen region of France and that it was not able to be seen in x-rays.
Here is a link:

In the same genre of first person accounts of battle and one of my favorites from WWII, check out “With British Snipers To The Reich” by Captain C. Shore. If you aren’t already fascinated by Brit snipers and sniper “kit” I guarantee that you will be after reading this book:

https://books.google.ca/books/about/...page&q&f=false

[browningautorifle]

There's no way a military group sat down and decided to use wooden bullets to keep them from appearing on X rays. I expect that rumor came from guys having wood driven into their bodies from explosions. Don't care what book it was carried in...

[freedomintheskies]

There's no way a military group sat down and decided to use wooden bullets to keep them from appearing on X rays. I expect that rumor came from guys having wood driven into their bodies from explosions. Don't care what book it was carried in...

Don't shoot the messenger....

[HENRY B]

now thats funny

[CINDERS]

I am sure it has been mentioned here the Bren had a splitter on when using the wooden bullets.
(See pics of rounds & full packet except for the 5 removed)

[Bruce McAskill]

Several countries if I remember correctly, used a wooden bullet to launch grenades. I think one country that had used them early was Japan but may have given up on them by WW2. I also seem to remember one country in Europe using them also at one time.

[bob4wd]

I have no idea as to the reality of the story, but I do remember talking to a WWII vet, back in the fifties, who spent a lot of time the Pacific theater. One of his stories was that the Japanese would hide on both sides of a jungle trail, facing each other basically, and shoot wooden bullets across the trail at GIs walking down the trail. The idea was that they were lethal or would inflict severe wounds at the short ranges, but lost momentum so fast that they wouldn’t carry across the trail and thus not hurt their own. This story was offered to supposedly prove how cruel and sneaky the Japanese were. Looking back, and knowing how many wrong “facts” were believed at the time, I doubt it though.
Interesting story, nevertheless. There were so many of these guys around then, all with very fascinating tales. Wish I knew then what I do now, would’ve written a few of them down.

[browningautorifle]

It's not just the facts wrong but time greatly clouds them. I know that for a fact, talking with fellow vets about critical incidents from back in the early days that I've now got twisted...