Posted: 11/7/2006 4:52:15 PM EDT
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A buddy of mine asked me if I knew and I thought I'd ask the people of this board. He is shooting (no pun intended hey |
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When I was in Thailand, the Thai soldiers didn't have blank adapters so they unscrewed the flash hider and placed either a spent primer or the sawn-off ass-end of a 5.56 case (I forget which) in the muzzle, then screwed the flash hider back on. Worked great and not visible from the outside. |
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THey will not cycle unless you have a blank firing attachment on the weapons; people that are into reenacting (mainly WW2 and Vietnam) can point to several devices that can be installed into a firearm to enable proper cycling of blank rounds. I know that there are attachments for the AR15 and for the 1911 pistol that can be installed on the weapon without alttering the overall look of the weapon in question.  THis is a BFA used by Hollywood on AR type rifles and carbines. Sold through Moore Militaria; they also sell the same BFA, but for the M14 rifle. I know I saw a conversion barrel that is made for blanks; it was (AFAIK) a drop in conversion that turns a 1911 pistol into a blank-firing 1911; bot for the life of me, I can't find the link. |
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On October 12, 1984, after finishing a scene in which he fired several blank rounds from a .44 Magnum revolver, Hexum jokingly put the gun up to his temple and sarcastically said, "Let's see if I've got one for me." Hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his head[2], it struck him in the temple with enough force to propel a quarter-sized piece of his skull into his brain. According to a crew member on the set: "Jon smiled and pulled the trigger. There was a loud bang and a bright flash, then black smoke. Jon screamed in agony, then looked kind of amazed as he slumped back onto the bed with blood streaming from a severe head wound. It was horrible." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum#Death |
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