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Originally posted by sapper:
we found in one corner of this room quite a large amount of 303 type, rifle ammunition, all with bright red wood bullets, since then, I have talked to other Veterans who have seen the same thing, nobody has yet come up with an answer to what they were used for?
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I actually do have a vague idea what these were for, because I know that we have blue plastic bullets today and I assume that these were used for the same purpose.
Naturally I am merely guessing here, but I assume that these bullets were used for training. Wood or plastic bullets have much worse flight characteristics and are a lethal at much shorter ranges, so these would be (or in the case of plastic bullets are still being) used to train in areas close to habitation. You get the proper recoil and the feel of firing your weapon but the bullet cannot kill somebody a mile away.