I like watching the kids in my family jumping and dancing around in the back garden............. .........they don't know I'm using blanks.......
7.62 Nato blanks, once (and probably still) used for military training purposes, are sealed at the crimp with a plug of thick paint to prevent the powder running out. On discharge the paint plug is projected and at close range delivers a forceful impact akin to a high power potato gun. It has been said they are capable of killing small birds. Issue the rug-rats with eye protection to avoid tedious recriminations later and these rounds should provide excellent entertainment for the bored husband/father/uncle whose interest in a family gathering is waning. Recommended. NB: To prevent unnecessary complications always store blanks and live rounds separately.
But .22 blanks are nothing like 12 bore cartridges, especially the 00 grade buckshot with just nine pellets in them....... ......at least I think I can tell the difference.............
I'm talking about these: We used to collect them from military firing ranges in Wales when we were kids. We'd collect the discarded clips from machine gun firing and use them to clip the spent cartridges back together again to make bullet belts: Unfired rounds were taken home and pushed into a holed drilled in a fence post and shot at with air rifles until they went bang.
Not as good as those collected from the sands at St Osyth where there was the remains of a Wellington bomber (or was it a Lancaster?) when we were 'kids'................some pretty heavy calibre live rounds were recovered from there. And I have done what you did with air rifles, using shotgun cartridges parked 60 yards away............You would be surprised as to how fast the brass end cap comes flying back at you.......
My .303 round was taken from me by the police when I was young. I was most disappointed, especially when I was later informed that it was unspent.
found one of these at a scramble on the glenifer braes at the back of paisley. drilled it out and made a pipe. worked well.
i believe it was anti aircraft. it was the closest i could find quickly. sure the casing was longer.and the bullet bit more rounded talking 25years ago here.polished up nice. i mind my collage lecturer going white and very quiet when he spotted it in the laith. possibly came from here. Secret Scotland - AA Battery Foxbar
