Blank experiment.
I loaded a .38 Spl. blank with 4 grains of B.E. a card wad and some wax. Squeezed a bullet into the cylinder from the front. The darn thing went through a 2 x 4 and kept going. Ejecting the case, it looked just like the blank I had loaded earlier. Hooda Thot???
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So you loaded it like a muzzleloader. Good thing those are not dangerous.
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Wonder if Baldwins gun had a squib load stuck in the barrel and a blank fired it out?
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Wonder if Baldwins gun had a squib load stuck in the barrel and a blank fired it out?
I think that did happen in an earlier movie set shooting.
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Not usually a good idea to load a bullet ahead of a blank--just sayin.
After some of the 'mishaps' that have occurred in the past, I wonder why 'prop guns' wouldn't have bore/muzzle restrictions to prevent re-runs.
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Not usually a good idea to load a bullet ahead of a blank--just sayin.
After some of the 'mishaps' that have occurred in the past, I wonder why 'prop guns' wouldn't have bore/muzzle restrictions to prevent re-runs.
Unless you intentionally want to harm (shoot) someone and put the blame on someone else. In this case, the armorer who inspected the gun and declared it "safe".
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Elubsme, hope things are going well for you out there in the big timber country!
Theatrical blanks use a special powder which is much more explosive than any reloading powder. If there is a bullet ahead of it, it will detonate. In 'HATCHER'S NOTEBOOK' there is a chapter on blanks and the like which is very enlightening.
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elubesme, seems like you basically made a "cap and ball" round, far from a blank load.
While in Cody some years ago they had a street shoot out renactment.
All actors either fired their gun in the air or into the ground. One fellow use a double barrel, darn sure would not have not been on the receiving end of that thing.
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