Shooting Wooden Bullets? Are they effective?

[stubshaft]

The Swedes used wood bullets in their 6.5X55's as blanks. Lucky if they could punch paper at 20 feet.

 

[Colonial Boy]

I remember in Basic Training when some clown loaded a stub of pencil in front of a.blank, luckily the Corporal saw him and stepped in and stopped him before he could fire at anyone.
Instead of charging him, the Corporal saw the Platoon Sergeant and they arranged a demonstration using fresh bayonet dummies.
At 10 feet they were likely to be lethal and at 15 feet on the up side of very painful beyond that they fell off rapidly but were still dangerous. ’.
None of our lot ever fooled with blanks again.

 

[Colonial Boy]

Just thinking about this, I have some hard and heavy woods, Iron Bark, Box and Red Gum; will turn up some bullets and give them a try