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  • #2
    bunny shooter
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    Probably only using blanks?


  • #3
    deerhunter1
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    bunny shooter wrote: »
    Probably only using blanks?

    Yes definetly


  • #4
    Cass
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    They are definitely blanks. Always used at funerals/memorials, etc. Even a blank has a muzzle blast so that would account for the cap being knocked off..
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  • #5
    deerhunter1
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    Ezridax wrote: »
    They are definitely blanks. Always used at funerals/memorials, etc. Even a blank has a muzzle blast so that would account for the cap being knocked off..

    Blanks can cause serious injury at close range, I saw a windscreen shatter from a 9mm blank fired from a gustav years ago, the officer in the vehicle **** himself, as did the oficer who fired it:D


  • #6
    DJandDeid
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    deerhunter1 wrote: »
    Blanks can cause serious injury at close range, I saw a windscreen shatter from a 9mm blank fired from a gustav years ago, the officer in the vehicle **** himself, as did the oficer who fired it:D

    The 'blanks' fired from a Gustav have a wax/resin bullet head which is designed to disintegrate into dust when fired when the special blank firing adapter is fitted. If the adapter isn't fitted you have a potentially lethal softer version of a ballistic tip bullet. I've seen eejits fire them from a BAP. Fortunately they were as crap a shot as they were idiots.


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  • #7
    deerhunter1
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    DJandDeid wrote: »
    The 'blanks' fired from a Gustav have a wax/resin bullet head which is designed to disintegrate into dust when fired when the special blank firing adapter is fitted. If the adapter isn't fitted you have a potentially lethal softer version of a ballistic tip bullet. I've seen eejits fire them from a BAP. Fortunately they were as crap a shot as they were idiots.

    ya it was fired without attachment


  • #8
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Blanks are quite dangerous.

    hot gas force out a small hole.

    I have seen them blow a timber box apart at point blank

    Get the Demo every year or so.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TZP2rHE-dY


    Notice Muzzle Flash without


  • #9
    dresden8
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    Jon-Erik Hexum, killed by a blank

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum

    I know a guy in the army years ago who was shot by a blank, "debris" gave him a burn, didn't penetrate.

    Allegedly the shooter got a kicking off the sergeant.


  • #10
    gunhappy_ie
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    Easy tell its a blank because if there is no blank firing adaptor on the rifles when using blanks the gun has to be cocked after firing every round.

    Also the old saying of "what goes up... " is applied in these situations so for ceremonial use blanks are all thats used.


  • #11
    murph226
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭murph226


    Thats nothing, what about an ociffer clearing a rifle down range while a recruit is taking in the flag above the butts:rolleyes:


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