WW2 Red Wooden bullets.

sapper · 22-02-2008, 12:38 PM

War is often a series of puzzles and mysteries. One that has never been solved is the mystery of the RED Wooden Bullets. In a den, we found boxes of rifle bullets with red stained wooden bullets. Genuine wooden rifle bullets. only the bullet... the casing was the normal brass rifle type

Another peculiarity is that all the German stick grenades had concrete heads, never metal. No one yet has come up with the mystery of those red wooden bullets?
Sapper

Paul Reed · 22-02-2008, 12:40 PM

They are drill rounds. I have had several clips of these, both WW1 and WW2 dated. How they ended up in the front line, no idea!

Gotthard Heinrici · 22-02-2008, 01:05 PM

Are they dangerous in any way?

Paul Reed · 22-02-2008, 01:12 PM

No, the 'slugs' are wooden and there is no cordite in them, so they cannot be fired. They are used to practice operating the rifle, reloading etc.

PsyWar.Org · 22-02-2008, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Reed

No, the 'slugs' are wooden and there is no cordite in them, so they cannot be fired. They are used to practice operating the rifle, reloading etc.

I had always been under the impression that the wooden bullets were blanks; the wood breaking-up in the barrel when fired. Any truth to that or were they purely drill rounds?

Paul Reed · 22-02-2008, 06:16 PM

Blanks are altogether a different beast. Wooden rounds are normally used for drill.

von Poop · 22-02-2008, 06:27 PM

Dave's commented on these Wooden bullets before, I seem to recall there were two red types:
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons...tml#post125102
The concrete Grenades have cropped up once or twice too, Lone sentry has a little:
Lone Sentry: Concrete Stick Hand Grenade (Intelligence Bulletin, June 1945, WWII)

CROONAERT · 24-02-2008, 11:56 PM

Concrete grenades in WW1 too...

Panzerschreck · 14-05-2008, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sapper

War is often a series of puzzles and mysteries. One that has never been solved is the mystery of the RED Wooden Bullets. In a den, we found boxes of rifle bullets with red stained wooden bullets. Genuine wooden rifle bullets. only the bullet... the casing was the normal brass rifle type

Another peculiarity is that all the German stick grenades had concrete heads, never metal. No one yet has come up with the mystery of those red wooden bullets?
Sapper

Wow I didn't know that they were made of concrete? Are you taking about the top of the grenade? the green/grey top? Did the germans color them green?

Thanks, Michael

sapper · 14-05-2008, 08:36 PM

NO, they were just as made in concrete, I never saw a metal one. And I have seen stacks of them
Sapper

22-02-2008, 12:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
sapper WW2 Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,355	WW2 Red Wooden bullets. War is often a series of puzzles and mysteries. One that has never been solved is the mystery of the RED Wooden Bullets. In a den, we found boxes of rifle bullets with red stained wooden bullets. Genuine wooden rifle bullets. only the bullet... the casing was the normal brass rifle type Another peculiarity is that all the German stick grenades had concrete heads, never metal. No one yet has come up with the mystery of those red wooden bullets? Sapper

22-02-2008, 12:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France Posts: 2,675	They are drill rounds. I have had several clips of these, both WW1 and WW2 dated. How they ended up in the front line, no idea! __________________ Webmaster - D Day Ancestors: The British Army in Normandy - http://www.ddayancestors.com/ Webmaster - Battlefields of WW2- http://www.ww2battlefields.info/ Webmaster - WW2 Cemeteries - http://www.ww2cemeteries.co.uk/

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Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,252	Are they dangerous in any way? __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

22-02-2008, 01:12 PM	#4 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France Posts: 2,675	No, the 'slugs' are wooden and there is no cordite in them, so they cannot be fired. They are used to practice operating the rifle, reloading etc. __________________ Webmaster - D Day Ancestors: The British Army in Normandy - http://www.ddayancestors.com/ Webmaster - Battlefields of WW2- http://www.ww2battlefields.info/ Webmaster - WW2 Cemeteries - http://www.ww2cemeteries.co.uk/

22-02-2008, 06:16 PM	#6 (permalink)
Paul Reed Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France Posts: 2,675	Blanks are altogether a different beast. Wooden rounds are normally used for drill. __________________ Webmaster - D Day Ancestors: The British Army in Normandy - http://www.ddayancestors.com/ Webmaster - Battlefields of WW2- http://www.ww2battlefields.info/ Webmaster - WW2 Cemeteries - http://www.ww2cemeteries.co.uk/

22-02-2008, 06:27 PM	#7 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The Abbey of Thelema. Posts: 7,257	Dave's commented on these Wooden bullets before, I seem to recall there were two red types: http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons...tml#post125102 The concrete Grenades have cropped up once or twice too, Lone sentry has a little: Lone Sentry: Concrete Stick Hand Grenade (Intelligence Bulletin, June 1945, WWII) __________________ It's only the Internet.

14-05-2008, 08:36 PM	#10 (permalink)
sapper WW2 Veteran Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,355	NO, they were just as made in concrete, I never saw a metal one. And I have seen stacks of them Sapper

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