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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: h20hunter on June 24, 2011, 02:40:20 PM

Title: .223 Blanks
Post by: h20hunter on June 24, 2011, 02:40:20 PM: Will .223 blanks run like normal ammo? Could a guy buy some, load up a 30 round mag and let 'er rip? No real reason why I want to, just wondering. If so, how is enough back pressure built up to cycle the bolt/carrier?
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Woodchuck on June 24, 2011, 03:16:49 PM: Nope you need a blank adapter to hold enough pressure to cycle the action. Side note: those are highly corrosive and will dirty up an action like you can't believe.
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: h20hunter on June 24, 2011, 03:23:05 PM: Roger, thanks.
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: jackmaster on June 24, 2011, 03:28:10 PM: Quote from: Woodchuck on June 24, 2011, 03:16:49 PM
Nope you need a blank adapter to hold enough pressure to cycle the action. Side note: those are highly corrosive and will dirty up an action like you can't believe.
YA GOT THAT RIGHT, training missions were the fricken worst, made it to where i wouldnt even fire if thatwas all we had, cause it took along ass time to get your weapon clean enough to turn in :twocents:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Woodchuck on June 24, 2011, 03:31:11 PM: :yeah: :hello:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on June 24, 2011, 03:55:32 PM: I cannot count how many times we returned from training and how many cans of carb cleaner we went though... :chuckle:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 24, 2011, 04:36:20 PM: Yes, if you are firing on an AR platform (or any other semi-auto) you need a blank adaptor. They might work in a bolt action though :dunno:.
Woodchuck is right on about the carbon buildup though. I still have nighmares about cleaning M-16s after blank firing missions.... :yike:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: PA BEN on June 24, 2011, 04:40:46 PM: If you want semi-auto you have to use the plug on the end of your gun. They will work singal action. Clean-clean and clean some more. :chuckle:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: MikeWalking on June 24, 2011, 04:42:14 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on June 24, 2011, 04:36:20 PM
Yes, if you are firing on an AR platform (or any other semi-auto) you need a blank adaptor. They might work in a bolt action though :dunno:.
Woodchuck is right on about the carbon buildup though. I still have nighmares about cleaning M-16s after blank firing missions.... :yike:

Carb cleaner and a power drill...shhhh don't let the armorer find out... :chuckle:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Woodchuck on June 24, 2011, 04:47:05 PM: :yeah: :chuckle:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on June 25, 2011, 09:09:14 AM: Don't tell the armor that we also put them in the solvent tank, or that we bead blasted the bolt carrier and chamber of the M2..... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 25, 2011, 09:38:45 AM: Quote from: jeepasaurusrex on June 25, 2011, 09:09:14 AM
Don't tell the armor that we also put them in the solvent tank, or that we bead blasted the bolt carrier and chamber of the M2..... :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

$#@!ing mechanics... WE never had a solvent tank... >:(
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: sebek556 on June 25, 2011, 09:42:16 AM: on a side note a blank and a cleaning rod will take out small game like a squirrel at close range
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 25, 2011, 09:55:54 AM: Quote from: sebek556 on June 25, 2011, 09:42:16 AM
on a side note a blank and a cleaning rod will take out small game like a squirrel at close range

...or a monkey...(but then the surviving ones follow your platoon and throw $hit at you for two days...) :bdid:
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: sebek556 on June 25, 2011, 10:04:17 AM: :DOH: :pee: thats funny
Title: Re: .223 Blanks
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on June 25, 2011, 10:07:11 AM: They also do nothing to a charging armadillo that has came into your GP small. :chuckle:

I never seen a big, bad ass SF candidate hop onto a cot and scream like a little girl like that before. :chuckle: :chuckle:

He emptied a whole magazine of blanks at it while standing on his cot. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: