Shooting Wooden Bullets? Are they effective?

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Trying something unusual this week per a viewer's request. Enjoy:

 

[Banjoman]

 

[BigAl52]

What will he come up with next.

 

[PathfinderNC]

What will he come up with next.

Acorns?

 

[Omahkapi'si]

The wooden bullet floating in the water actually got a chuckle out of me.

 

[Dave Dworshak]

An arrow!?

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

An arrow!?

Tried that too....starting at 8:25:

 

[Boomerang]

How about marbles out of a smooth bore.

 

[Rancocas]

Law enforcement did some experimenting with wood round balls fired from a 12 ga. shotgun for use in riot control back in the 1970's. Supposed to be non-lethal, but if a wood ball hit someone in the head - oh well. Hard rubber balls were found to work better, although it could still be lethal if hit in the head.
I've been out of that business for so long that I no longer know what they use today. Bean bags, maybe?

 

[Dusty_Traveler]

Those temples are the Achilles heel.

Yeah, they use bean bag rounds now.

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

How about marbles out of a smooth bore.

Tried that too...with almost destroying the gun:

 

[Boomerang]

Ya, you hafta make sure the marble is small enough to fit all the way down the barrel. I would also use a patch or the glass could tear up your barrel.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

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[rafterob]

Last wooden bullet I shot was my ramrod!

 

[aussie pete]

Last wooden bullet I shot was my ramrod!

Probably a bit long for calibre for accuracy!
Cheers, Pete

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

Ya, you hafta make sure the marble is small enough to fit all the way down the barrel. I would also use a patch or the glass could tear up your barrel.

That's what happens when I didn't measure those marbles....!! LOL

 

[buttap]

Here I have some east german AK rounds that are plastic jacket wood bullets that the idea I get is they where riot control rounds. 30 feet they group like bird shot too.

 

[sturmkatze]

Here I have some east german AK rounds that are plastic jacket wood bullets that the idea I get is they where riot control rounds. 30 feet they group like bird shot too.

They were blanks.

 

[northernThaiguy]

I remember reading that the Japs used bamboo bullets late in the war, and that they were a bugger to cut out of the GIs because they would splinter when they hit someone. My swim coach back in HS had a big 3" circular hole that was about 1.5" deep in his back - I had just read about the Jap bullets, and always wanted to ask him about his wound, but never got up the courage to ask!

 

[russellshaffer]

Marbles work OK in a plastic shot shell wad. I put a card wad under and and one over to keep it from rolling out or melting the wad. Don't ask about accuracy. I'm just playing with a matchlock and if the shot goes towards the target I'm happy. Big bang and lots of smoke.