What Were These Designed For? Egyptian 8 gr. Ammo

[david86440]

I bought these but I have no idea what they were designed for. (indoor range, blanks, frangible?)

Egyptian, 7.62X54R 8 gr plastic.

They contain a large powder charge as I took one apart to see what its made of. The bullet is a plastic material and is quite brittle.

I fired one round last week at the range and it made a big kaboon, not sure where if anywhere the projectile went. I will shoot more next time, now that I know that it didn't melt inside the bore.


Ideas anyone?

[twyacht]

Crowd Control?


Either that or keeping dogs out of the garbage....Perhaps they a have copper shortage?

Or, it's their version of the Glazer Safety Slug, don't need overpenetration when living in a tent, hut, or mud adobe?

Interesting.

[TAB]

i'd guess it was much like the "baton rounds" that the miltary use to issue for men on watch for the 1st couple rounds.  the idea was to prevent deaths from ND/ shooting people by mistake.

[m25operator]

The Swedes had a similiar 6.5x55 rd with wooden bullets, for indoor gallery shooting, explode on impact with a hard surface, with little or no splashback. Of course Century Arms called them Vampire killers. The stuff was dirt cheap, but the brass was excellent.

[blackwolfe]

The Swedes also had a blank firing device that screwed on the end of the threaded muzzle which most Swedish Mausers have.  The device was to shread the wooden bullets.  I think they were Berdan primed.  They also had a light "gallery" round the had a light, short rounded bullet or cap.  They were cheap and the reloaders would buy them, pull the wooden bullets and use the excellent cases to reload for a once fire round.
I have also seen Swede 9mm practice rounds with a plastic bullet.

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[fightingquaker13]

I don't know, if we're gearing up for zombies, maybe a few vampire rounds would be prudent. BTW, how did they produce these? Coming up with a tight wooden round on a lathe in large numbers would stike me as a difficult, time consuming and rather pricey enterprise as opposed to just filling a mold with molten metal?
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

I don't know, if we're gearing up for zombies, maybe a few vampire rounds would be prudent. BTW, how did they produce these? Coming up with a tight wooden round on a lathe in large numbers would stike me as a difficult, time consuming and rather pricey enterprise as opposed to just filling a mold with molten metal?
FQ13

Actually FQ, it is FAR FAR less expensive if your country happens to be heavily forested, also the machining is no where near as critical with wood since it can compress far more easily than even lead.

[TAB]

making small round wooden objets is very easy.

a very simple cutter could be made in the exact shape of the bullet.  then its all a matter of spining the wood on a lathe.  on a high speed lather your looking at 1-2 seconds tops.  golf tees that have a simlar shape, are made inm the hundreds per min.