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Originally Posted by sapper  . We also found many boxes of live rifle bullets. like 303 with the bullet end made of bright red wood. We never got to the bottom of that one?
Sapper |
They were originally intended for use on manouvres, Brian, (a sort of blank round in a way) but could penetrate and be lethal at short ranges. There were also reports of the Turks using these in action in Palestine in 1918 in the previous war - desperate times call for desperate measures, i suppose!
Other uses of these wooden bullets (though probably not for the German Army) was in riot control. Sometimes known as "knee-knockers", they were, I suppose, sometimes used as a form of olde worlde baton round.
Dave