Bulleted Blanks - What Are They, And How Dangerous Are They?

Bloke, appropriately attired, acquires some old bulleted blanks in 7.5x55 GP11 calibre. In the absence of any ballistic gelatin gummy bears, he sees what they do against cardboard.
How dangerous is a little soft wood bullet in a blank anyway? A slack handful of them through a Schmidt-Rubin K11 tells all.
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[@tSp289]

"Nice shot..." *donk* "ow" Love the deadpan delivery.

[@slaughterround643]

I usually don't find kids that funny but it must be because she has Bloke's genes

[@ek8710]

That was adorable

[@WasatchGarandMan]

"Nice Shot...*case hits her head* Ow..." Why is that so funny

[@InfernoNinja111]

lol I think the cameraman (chap I assume) chuckled as well.

[@Tiger74147]

This part got me too. :P

[@TheBluerayxx]

The way she says it is what makes it funny. All serious, like she is his CO.

[@Notcognizant]

each time i see a gun being fired next to a kid i worry bout brass flying around, i thought i d be fine considering she was standing on the left..... XD if it was me i wouldve been pissed

[@chastblind7606]

Overwatch idk why but i fucking died im crying hahaha!

[@keithrobertsson2164]

I like young Miss Bloke's commitment to range safety.

[@tylersievers7959]

I laughed my american ass off when the brass hit the little blokelette on the head. I guess somethings are universal

[@magellanicraincloud]

"Never stand in front of a shooter". Sage advice.

[@JustGlitch]

Nik Saunders so I've been doing it wrong all these years

[@danmorgan3685]

Miss Bloke is just to cute. Also I love how she just HAD to get in the last word.

[@dominicdelprincipe2583]

Watching that brass hit the Blokelette was the funniest thing I've seen on youtube this year... especially after you asked her to stand behind, and after the cut she was NOT behind you!

[@MarCuseus]

"ow" :P

[@KennethTangCF]

I loved how she just casually went "ow" like it has happened before, has it bloke?

[@oscarzt1652]

Dominic Del Principe 2:57

[@mommailuvu]

Dominic Del Principe then the second time he fired she got scared of the casing lol

[@tapioperala3010]

Just like my daughter; you tell her to stand back, she confirms, moves back and 3 seconds later she's back where she was. Kids. Gotta love 'em. XD

[@Debbiebabe69]

Little girl is adorable.... especially when she just stands there and says *ow* after getting hit by brass...

[@lordofdarkdudes]

using ear defenders and proper weapon safety, dame you migth just be one of the most compentet gun enthusiast on youtube

[@jussaniggawitarocketlaunch8878]

@@narcoleptic8982 the only reason its mostly americans on youtube is because we have the most Guns.garentee if the world had the same gun to person ratio as the us there would be plenty of idiots.plus if you gone yo a range in the us there strict and which they shoud be.sorry for wasting your time and i hope you have a great day.

[@antonw-uw4ov]

jussaniggawitarocketlauncher , in that case it’s wierd we don’t see a lot of videos of serbs doing silly things with guns since they have pretty close to the same gun per capita as the us.....

[@jero37]

Blokette is adorable! Also love the period uniform, you cut a rather dashing figure some might think.

[@danieltaylor5542]

Please sir, Blokette is colonel in chief!

[@RobertKFall]

I'll second that motion.

[@RobertKFall]

here, here. the next thing you know she'll be riding side saddle for the trooping of the colors.

[@danieltaylor5542]

I stand corrected sir.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

+Robert K. Fall Or an vintage Opel cabriolet with hood flags ;)

[@emiliovalero995]

a bit of advice next time you get a round that doesn't go off leave it in the chamber for at least 5 Seconds. Slow-burning primers happen sometimes and it could cause an out of battery detonation if you eject immediately.

[@neueneggschiessen3933]

you don't say....

[@neilwilson5785]

This is why youtube is good. It's a bit eccentric, very informative, and just fun to watch. I knew nothing about wooden blanks before, and now I do. I have gained knowledge, and had fun. Thx!

[@rakufin]

In the Finnish Army we sometimes use these in training and the muzzle device to break the bullet is called "luodinraiskaaja", which roughly translates to "bullet-raper"

[@LaatiMafia]

The only issue of those blanks is the way they mess up the insides of the gun.. Finnish army uses those wooden blanks with a nozzle-mounted breaker, that will allow the RKs to cycle. The insides of the gun is covered with soot.. We often said that may we have a few live bullets, so we could clean at least clean the barrels :D

[@saltydiarrhea386]

Laatikkomafia I'm new here and may have missed the explanation I am looking for. Is the point of the blank for practice working the trigger and action? Were they used in the war era or are these just for appreciation of the firearm? Or is there another purpose? Thanks in advance, -Silly American

[@LaatiMafia]

We used them to make new soldiers get comfy with the bang, recoil and breath control.

[@salvagebar]

3:42 "This is stopping to remind you: never stand in front of a shooter." Wise words from Blokette. You have trained her well.

[@johnm3907]

nice shot. ow.

[@Oddball_E8]

There was an incident of a swedish soldier shooting himself in the leg with a wooden "blank" bullet to get out of having to stand guard at the royal palace. Let's just say it got him out of doing anything else, ever... permanently. Bullet splintered and pretty much destroyed his leg and he bled out. (Yes, this was one of those drafted soldiers we had back in the day, and soon will have again, in Sweden. Apparantly, the instruction of how lethal a wooden blank can be had not reached him)

[@doraran5158]

Don't forget there is also the energy from burning powered. (Blank powder actually much faster burning than ball powder and likely would blow up gun if loaded behind a real bullet.) A movie prop tech, holding one of those top venting blank pistols, actually blew a hole in his had from a negligent discharge from a wad less crimped blank. He posts pics in his shop to show danger of mishandled blanks.

[@antonw-uw4ov]

Oddball_E8 That story is utter bullshit. It’s a common myth in the swedish army with no base in reality. It’s the same as when they told soildiers that a 7.62nato would blow up a hunting-rifle in 308.; Just so the soilder would not steal ammo.

[@siemvanengeland6303]

Lol at 2:57 the case bounced of her head

[@tapioperala3010]

In FDF, we used (and have used for decades) bulleted blanks, but the wooden bullet actually does leave the cartridge. The staff said that it is lethal up to 50 meters, which is why we used a sort of muzzle brake to which the wooden bullet slammed into and shredded (we called it "bullet raper"). Not sure if it'd actually kill anyone, but would be nice to know.

[@onpahanvaan]

In Finnish army those wooden planks are still used atleast in the Finnish AK variants (RK-62/95). They are always used with a shredder device on the muzzle and the reason for using them is to give enough backpressure for cycling the action reliably and potentially to keep the guns slightly cleaner.

[@drac00n]

The sarcastic ''ouch'' when the first casing hit her baseball cap was quite funny to hear, haha!

[@melchung1566]

Blokeette looks to be the age of my daughter when she started helping me in my shop. Enjoy the company! Thanks for the video!

[@Vivacious_Lenin]

awwww, it's so cute that you included your daughter

[@sugarnads]

Well done that blokelette there.

[@kevinlindsey9997]

That log pile backstop is a work of art! Great video!!

[@godsgranddad]

"never stand in front of the shooter" And then once you've fired you see her go to walk forward, stop and look at you to make sure it's safe. You've taught her well

[@sequorroxx]

"Nice shot... ow" FUCKING ADORABLE!

[@iambiggus]

I lol'd at the beginning. I was thinking, "Sheesh, how about a little privacy? Peeing in the woods is awkward enough."

[@ZombieBrothers1231]

Thanks for another amazing and educational video. I am what you could call a beginner / junior in firearms and your videos help me learn about this interest, outside of Hollywood media and video games as I am too anxious to go to my local store and ask questions. and finally I am glad you are teaching the youngen range safety and about firearms in general. sincerely a new fan.

[@Whitpusmc]

This reminds me of a trick my grandfather played on me shooting his 22lr when I was really young. He would shoot at the target and get a hit at maybe ten yards then let me shoot and I'd miss... we repeated this a bunch of times with same result, hit for him, miss for me. Later as an adult I remembered what the ammo looked like and figured that the rounds I used were 22 shot shells like for anti snake shots with a pistol. By 10 yards the pellets had dispersed enough that few hit the target and anyway they were much smaller than at .22 thus my misses.... ya got me sir!

[@monty5692]

Lovely to see "Blokelette" helping out her pops 😊

[@varun009]

Little miss blokette is such a sweetheard. Great to see you two have a good relationship. Nothing pisses me off more than negligent, detached parents.

[@AbyssmalAngel]

Awe, she's adowable.

[@s.p.ltd.3886]

Interesting video. The only blanks I have ever fired were in .30-06 from a M1 Garand equipped with a blank adapter so the action would cycle. The .30-06 blanks were in an extended brass case where the forward portion was shaped somewhat like a bullet so they would feed reliably. There was no bullet however there was a plug in the end of the case made from either cardboard or wax to secure the propellant in the case. As I recall there was virtually no recoil.

[@KalZu107]

In Finland we do field exercises where we shoot each other with these. Blank adapters are used of course.

[@JanoTuotanto]

I remember at least one case where a conscript was killed with those. At close range from an "unloaded" LMG.

[@olppano]

Yeah and i've heard that some guy was killed because he was trying to get out from the army by shooting himself with a "harmless" blank.

[@colin7763]

Ha! I love how the young lady reminds us to never stand in front of the shooter. Good job! Thanks for the video. I have always wondered how the bulleted blanks worked. I've fired quite a few unbulleted blanks. Never was comfortable firing those in the general direction of people. I do believe that firing a bulleted blank at someone would make my hair stand on end.

[@Zampther]

Accaly blanks are deadly , when i was in the army we where repetitively told about a medic who during a drill leaned forward to pick up a solider. his AG3 loaded whit blanks flipped over his back so the barrel was facing his face. when he garbed the gun he accidentally pulled the trigger and it blew his own face off. These where modern blanks whit no wooden bullet. They also did a demonstration where they loaded a Ag3 whit a blank pointed it upwards put an apple on top and fired the weapon. the apple disintegrated completely. In the Norwegian army the safety distance for discharging blanks whit out a recoil enhancer is 20meters.

[@richardgomez8010]

Did he live?

[@Zampther]

no

[@richardgomez8010]

Dang

[@1993Crag]

It makes sense,l at point blank the gas would still be at a fairly high pressure.

[@aaurial6662]

LOL this isn't even true. blanks even when fired without a Blank firing attachment is not powerful enough to blow anyones face off! and certainly not kill a man!!

[@Andersson203]

In the old Swedish manual I seem to recall that when firing the mauser with a blank firing adapter the minimum range was 3 meters from the muzzle to the people you're shooting at and without the adapter minimum range was 5 meters. Also your assistant is adorable and she's helping too!

[@NicholasAarons]

Fantastic Video & Very Interesting. Keep up the great work. Nick.

[@sadface]

Is ballistic gelatin gummy bears a reference to Taofledermaus? haha

[@sadface]

I have a good eye for references :)

[@sadface]

You got me on the Simpsons part haha. Ill be sure to check some out :)

[@evandaire1449]

Hah! Caught that too!

[@jacktumbleweed]

Great to see a man bringing his little girl up right. Also I quite like that K11, very nice looking rifle. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous haha. Good video.

[@danielcurtis1434]

I don’t know if it’s actually British, but “hearing defenders” sounds absolutely badass!!! We just call it hearing protection. Or maybe “doubling up” if you wear ear buds under the “earphones” or external hearing protection.

[@TheJermuFin]

They still use the bulleted blanks in the Finnish army when training soldiers for combat. We have shredders for the RK 62, 95 and the PKM. Its a bloody mess to clean the gun after shooting 2 clips of bulleted blanks trough it.

[@05Rudey]

I got accidently shot by a blank at cadets once, a cadet got careless, placed his cocked Cadet SA80 rifle on his lap without activating the safety while sitting and talking to another cadet , somehow he pulled the trigger, I was in line of fire about 7 - 8 ft away and it tore through my British Army Camo jacket, Army jumper, wool shirt and left a penny sized wound on the left side of my stomach. I still have a cigarette burn type scar today. I gotta tell you, I actually thought I really got shot because of the damage it done to my clothes, especially when I reached down and saw blood on my fingers.. I have no idea why we didn't have the yellow blank fire Attachments fitted.

[@PaddyInf]

05Rudey The BFA for the SA80 fits around the flash eliminator. The L98A1 doesn't have one. The purpose of the BFA is to minimise gas escape through the muzzle so that enough is forced through the gas parts so that the action cycles. Without it the weapon becomes single shot and the bolt would need worked between shots. The L98A1 was already a straight pull single shot so didn't need this. Ironically this made the Cadet rifle more dangerous when firing blanks than the SA80.

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

05Rudey we didnt have them either. Someone in my detachment got hit in the leg and it left a nasty welt

[@danternas]

Even modern Swedish 5.56 blanks have a wooden "bullet". Though of course they are used with a shredder to incinerate all wood. But in spite of that the safety distance is 2 meters with safety glasses and 10 meters without. Your video pretty much prove just why it is those distances, just to be on the safe side in case the shredder doesn't fully work.

[@GWRProductions-kg9pt]

standard safe distance is 50 meters with any blank rounds

[@pfdsmyth]

Awesome video... history, science, and lots of bangs!

[@jonarbuckle1560]

that little girl is impossibly adorable. She sounds a bit American though!

[@Glockenstein0869]

Absolutely loved this video. It brought me back to the time when I would take my daughter shooting. She is currently at Texas A&M University, but even now she has a healthy respect and appreciation for firearms.

[@doulikepanckakes]

Adorable kid and an informative video :)

[@browndd]

Cute kid and interesting video. i always wondered why they used wooden blank in a bolt action. Maybe to give just a little bit stronger of a recoil impulse?

[@silence3994]

2:57 is far too funny keep up the good work mate

[@mistbooster]

We still use bulleted 7,62x39 blanks in FSDF training :)

[@setenca]

you've got a new subscriber for your channel here, i appreciate your respect for the swiss army ;)

[@douglasmcneil8413]

You should have your little "Blokette" help you out with more videos. Love to seen the next generation of shooters coming up.

[@GordonFreeman.]

Haha the fist round you eject whacked right into your daughters head and she didn't flinch. Found that hilarious. But really keep up the videos. Super informative and different than generic youtube gun stuff. I really enjoy your dorky honest personality. Not some fake russian accent blowing things up for 3 minutes. Well done sir.

[@Christopher-N]

It's noticeable that the more dangerous the bulleted blank is, the more swing on the target is produced post-firing.

[@brabhamfreaman166]

Glad to hear blokelet/chaplet reminding audience of the safety rule to always remain behind the shooter.

[@Zegger]

I feel an honest envy of that girl. I wish my dad was like that, showing me cool things and letting me help him out, even doing simple tasks.

[@spaztronaut2560]

Hey bloke, did Swiss troops use alpenflage year round or did they alternate between a summer/fall uniform?

[@samcoupland]

That is a very pretty K11.

[@danman4095]

I've never seen a rifle in tiger maple, that looks magnificently exquisite

[@nilsmanuelgut131]

You can actually "reload" those green blanks by cutting away the tip and "grinding away" some of the material inside (until the metal is gone at the tip) then you can press in a bullet by hand fairly easily and it will hold quite well in there (not well enough for combat use/abuse, though).

[@AdelTheKid]

3 words. Best.Intro.Ever.

[@RafaelHabegger]

so swiss you are. nice uniform and gear mate.

[@mistahsusan2650]

Informative kid and adorable video

[@eltouni]

Ah blanks. We had a shredder in the army for RK62 :)

[@nates9536]

Interesting bit of engineering there. How to make a bullet that isn't a bullet

[@MathiasWesterlund]

in sweden we actually use bulleted blanks still in our AK4 and AK5

[@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140]

In the Netherlands we yell 'bang' instead of using bullets.

[@awmperry]

Mathias Westerlund Yeah. Dangerous buggers, but the burning sawdust gives a lovely flash out of the BFA. :-D

[@MathiasWesterlund]

:P Nothing dangerous as long as the splitter is mounted properly.

[@MathiasWesterlund]

Nicolas, The AK4 did have a noticably bigger flame from the pine splitting and fragments igniting Did you ever stop to think that he might have spoken about the AK4 and maybe never used the AK5 in his time of military service?

[@awmperry]

Mathias Westerlund Nope, I was issued an AK5 and the blanks we got had wooden plugs. They may well have changed them since - this was 2001 and most of the ammo we got was stuff that had to be used up because it was getting old, so it may well have been a really old version, but it was certainly wooden.

[@MrKiromana]

When I shot bulleted blanks with the AK4 (G3 - Swedish variant). We were taught that within 2 meters, fire up in the air, at 3 meters and further away it's fine. Also earprotection was only required within 10 meters of the rifle, 25 on the ksp58 iirc.

[@bryceconn]

did you put a round that didn't fire on a striker failure, into your pocket?

[@wolfboy18]

I wonder, how many times can you reload the same cartridge?

[@johnjones_1501]

Both Bruce Lee and his son reportedly died when live rounds somehow got mixed in with blank rounds, though I do remember hearing once that there was a "cardboard plug" in the bullets. I am guessing bulleted blanks had mistakenly been used, and at the close range of the scenes, proved lethal. I could see them still being common in East Asia.

[@Blackstone9x19]

I believe it was only his son who died from that. The prop gun had previously been loaded with a dummy round that only had the powder removed, so the live primer was still there. When it was fired, the bullet lodged in the barrel, and when it was subsequently used with a blank in the fatal scene, the lodged bullet was fired out, killing his son.

[@deepbludreams]

Other then use in guns that require gas pressure, whats the advantage of these over normal blanks? also are they really needed for guns that run on gas? because back in my service days even the M240 ran off just crimped blanks during training . I am only mentioning this because this seems like they would be harder to manufacture then crimped blanks.

[@guidebook10]

i was going she didn't as well, but thought i leave at that, anyway you seem like a good bloke bloke anyway we know for next time .have a great day bloke from Australia

[@jonnybarba119]

I love how she gets smacked with the casing and just goes "...ow"

[@pommel47]

Were the old blanks you fired loaded with black powder?

[@DudeNumberOnePlus]

Whats your opinion on swiss M18 helmet? Never got my hands on one, but i suspect it beats german stallhelm. It might be the best helmet of WWII?

[@ethang6735]

curious what the blanks that have the metal crimp on the end would do at that range... will have to test this with my 91/30 :)

[@French4Assassin]

Would be cool to see a slow mo of the blank exiting the barrel

[@MatteV2]

I've shot quite a lot of bulleted blanks, from a 6.5x55 rifle (It was not an old military rifle, believe it or not), mostly to learn trigger control and such, and this was not entirely new to me. IIRC, the talk on the range was that anything up to 50m was a possible nasty outcome with different levels of injury, whereas with a blank firing device, it would have been reduced to absolutely point blank, as it would be pulverized.

[@multipl3]

What kind of blanks were used in Schindler list in the mass execution scene using the Luger pistol?

[@ndkblackhawk]

I've heard from my grandfather that German troops during the second World War would train with those in the field (in this example rehearsal for troops stationed at the atlantic wall)

[@fuge74]

normally see them in the US as crimped and with a wax seal, for machine guns there is a end piece that gives a bit of back pressure.

[@MajorArtillary]

I noticed your K1911 only ejected the round up a bit, my 1911 long rifle will bounce them off the rafters at the shooting stand

[@Lazarus0357]

+Bloke on the Range Nice video, thanks. I recognised the helmet as being from Switzerland, not the jacket. Whereabouts is the range? Somehow I feel I've been there. Regards

[@stevephillips8719]

Have you used .303 British blanks? We used thousands in Aussie Army Cadets and often unsupervised. The blank has a paper wad below the crimp that at short range will decimate a baked bean tin. At a meter it would we estimate certainly maim or kill a person. We would break a steel cool drink can in half and stuff it over the muzzle, then shoot it vertically during ambushes about 60 feet high was the average.. On at least one occasion an unlucky parrot was felled by a well aimed shot.

[@billbraski]

"Enough to do you a nasty." Ill live by this hahah

[@GregsGruns]

"I hope he remembers to remove his muzzle protector" *blows muzzle protector off with first shot*

[@WJS774]

It would be fascinating to shoot some of these on a super-slow-motion camera, if you know anyone who has one.

[@Miska34]

What was the point of putting a wooden bullet in a blank? Was it more economical than crimping the end?

[@BlokeontheRange]

Yes. You can use normal cases rather than special ones. And probably safer too, given the metallurgy of the day risking bits of the crimp coming off.

[@highlands]

I got shot in the leg at very close range by one of those crimped blank cartridges with the wax in the end. It was extremely painful and I still have a scar but what I remember most of all is the guy who did it (accidentally, I suppose) standing over me, while I'm on the ground clutching my leg, still pointing his gun at me. Apparently they could hear me swearing on the other side of the woods which must be nearly a mile away. It could have been a lot worse. Muzzle control is no joke.

[@BalrajSingh-nu9bx]

U got shot with a sim round lol

[@oscarzt1652]

where are you based?

[@Validator56]

Is the pecking order Bloke > Blokelette > Chap or Bloke > Chap > Blokelette?

[@douglasmacarthur5140]

Blockette is cool!

[@highestdisc3766]

What uniform is that?

[@maxmustermann3040]

4:34 What was that and how is that possible?

[@ShaDOWDoG667]

I've been trying to get some Swiss gear together for ww2 reenacting and some equipment and items are difficult to get in the states. If you could have a look around over there I'd very much appreciate it if you could send me some choice items.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass.

[@doraran5158]

Cautionary note: On a misfire, keep breech closed a bit before opening. Saw a Martini-Henry with Kynoch 1947 vintage .450/577 ammo, and a hang fire going off about 10 seconds after trigger pulled. (Oddly, it was only problem in about 30 rounds fired that day.)

[@florianeberle7087]

Nice uniform you got there, swiss make. The previous owner belonged to the logistics branch and was a lorry driver. Also, kudos to the wee girl on saying "don't stand in front of a man at the range". If seen couple o' nitwits making that mistake in my days as a recruit ;)