7.62x39 "Grenade" blanks

[how111now]

I am looking for 7.62x39 blanks that will actually launch a grenade. some blanks don't have the right charge to launch correctly. Does anyone have any info or experience on which blanks to use? where can I get some
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[JA]

7.62x39mm grenade launching blanks are a not something you are going to run into easy as they are pretty much a cartridge collector item.

[hcpookie]

Try here:

http://www.bigskysurplus.com/

[eodinert]

I emailed big sky surplus, and asked him if they were real grenade launching blanks.

His reply:
Have Original blanks. Unless your sks has a gas cutoff they will only shoot the inert rifle grenades 30-40 feet. With the cutoff they will go trice as far.

No way those are real grenade launching blanks.

[hcpookie]

I emailed big sky surplus, and asked him if they were real grenade launching blanks.

His reply:
Have Original blanks. Unless your sks has a gas cutoff they will only shoot the inert rifle grenades 30-40 feet. With the cutoff they will go trice as far.

No way those are real grenade launching blanks.
Yeah for the over-barrel grenades you absolutely need the gas cut-off. Kinda defeats the purpose if you don't have a gas cut-off.

My FNC has a gas cutoff, and I think the Yugo AKs do too... the M70s.

I've read that "real" blanks could over-pressure the barrel and cause dangerous conditions, but so few people play with them that its hard to say. I suspect you'd have a big bruise at the very least, but who knows.

[HawaiiFALer]

Rifle grenades went the way of the dinosaur since the invention of the 40mm grenades that (in the U.S. anyway) were launched by the M79 grenade launcher, in the 1960's. And now launched by the M203, under the M16 barrel.

The only rifle grenades I "saw" were in the pictures in the FM's (Army Field Manuals). I never saw the US grenade blanks, because there was nothing to launch.

The M-14 has a gas cut-off. The M-16 does not.

I can't say for certain, when the Soviets stopped using these dinosaurs. But they did copy the 40mm grenade round, but IIRC in 30mm.

So I doubt that very many grenade-launching blanks, US or Soviet-bloc, are floating around. I suspect all the blanks currently available are just "noise makers" for training. BTW, a training blank will send an aluminum soda can about 30-40 feet if held at about a 45 degree angle. It's light so it slows down safely. We just cut the top of the can open with a regular can-opener, slip it over the muzzle, flash suppressor and all, and launch the darn thing. There's hardly any back pressure from the aluminum cans, so you don't even need a gas cut-off.
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[simonovsdog]

I use the East German blanks for launching rubber ball grenades from my Yugo SKS. I use the M1A2 adapter with a gum-ball machine rubber ball in the place of a grenade. At a 45 degree angle, it will travel approximately 150 yards. Straight up, it will go nearly out of sight. FUN! FUN!

[PE90]

I have Czech steel cased blanks. They are very powerful and will launch a grenade a few hundred meters. Out of an SKS they generate more than 4 foot diameter fireballs and are quite loud. They are also VERY corrosive and one must clean the rifle immedietly after use.