Wooden Bullet 7.62x39 range report

[DAA1]

From sportsmans guide..... aint worth what it costs unless ou like to shoot single shot. Will not cycle in anything, and I won't be buying any more of it. Thought it might be nice as lower powered plinking ammo, but would not cycle in an SKS or ruger mini 30. Nice looking ammo, but good only for training folks on immediate action drills.

Unless you just have a real need for this ammo, pass it up.

[hunter_la5]

ummm... aren't you supposed to use a special BFA adapter with wooden bullets to make them cycle? or maybe im confused with something else?

[nalioth]

ummm... aren't you supposed to use a special BFA adapter with wooden bullets to make them cycle? or maybe im confused with something else? Think there was something on this forum or the preceding one describing a BFA for wooden bullets that shredded the bullet as it left the barrel....

[hunter_la5]

Think there was something on this forum or the preceding one describing a BFA for wooden bullets that shredded the bullet as it left the barrel....

yeah thats probably what I'm thinking of

[M1 Tanker]

Wooden tipped rounds are blanks. The BFA has a shredder to destory the wood on exit.

[Perro]

ive shot the plastic bullet AK ammo, and it cycles just fine - way lighter in fealt recoil if thats what you are going for DAA

rickinvegas had a bunch of the stuff, and it shot fine - ill see what kind it was unless he sees the post first

[bullseye]

can you reload the brass?

[DAA1]

Nope, it's berdan primed. too much trouble to try and reload it.

[MID]

Would this work for launching rifle grenades?

[DAA1]

Mid,
Somebody with more knowledge than me is going to have to chime in. Rounds seemed to fire ok, but not very powerful as compared to FMJ ammo.

[XO3319]

When they originally posted it for sale they had it as boxer primed and reloadable so I almost bought it for the brass alone

But I had doubts so I didn't order it, then they revised the ad to reflect Bredan primed

I have a bunch of the Swedish 9mm practise rounds that I use at the round to practice immediate action drills and they work fine for that

[WildBillCody]

How about if you replace the recoil spring in a AK with a lighter one? Does it try and work the action at all? I was thinking of buying some, pulling the wood bullets and replacing them with real bullets.

[okie shooter]

XO, do your plastic rounds cycle your weapon, I tried some to cycle my highpoint carbine that they almost but stoped short, they were cheap though, I read there were kits, to run these thru FA sub guns(what they were devloped for orginally, indoor gallery shooting). They taper to the .22 bb size to function blow back submachineguns.

[wonderwolf]

thats a interesting idea to use a squeeze bore type method to allow the round to function. These would be fun I bet if you had a SB2 chambered in 7.62X39. I've shot a couple boxes of the 9mm practice rounds as well through my dads SA ruger and through a Glock. They WANT to cycle the glock but I'm sure if your put a weaker spring in it would. Same goes with this wooded bullet stuff I bet.

[XO3319]

The Swedish 9mm practice rounds were not meant to cycle in handguns and they don't. Just a bang, no kick-- decent accuracy if you were shooting at varmints but I just use them for immediate action drills

[pjm204]

Do not, I repeat DO NOT fire the swedish training rounds unless you want your barrel ruined. the small steel bb under the plastic bounces around in your barrel and over a few rounds (no idea how many) it will leave dents in your barrel. They claim the rounds work fine in marlin camp 9's but with that gun becoming more rare every year(out of production since 1999) it doesn't seem wise.

For the wood bullets. I realize they are blanks but for short distances it might be cool to try a lighter recoil spring, maybe cut a third of the coils out?