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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.
 
Since we're talking about blanks now, I can tell you this, back in the 1980's we were training with paintball guns and sometimes blanks in our service handguns. Someone got the idea of loading a cotton ball in the blank cartridges believing that it would shoot out and harmlessly tap someone.
Well, our armorer went to the nearest convenience store and bought a bag of cotton balls. Problem was they were not real cotton, but rather some synthetic material. When fired, that synthetic cotton ball came out like napalm. The flaming material stuck to you!
A couple of holes burned in shirts, and we were done with that.
And paint balls - I was hit in the back of my bare hand by a paint ball. Hurt! Raised up quite a welt.
 
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