Blanks launching in Yugo

I see Center Fire has blanks and its free shipping right now so I was wondering- I got a launcher spigot for my M64 and if I can find or build some practice rifle granades would these blanks be appropriate? I know nothing about blanks, thanks!

Most likely not. Training blanks have much less power than grenade launching blanks. A practice rifle grenade with a regular blank will go about 10 yards. Grenade launching blanks are a bit pricier also. Hi-vel has them in several calibers. I've read about guys making their own launching blanks using empty cases and a little bit of black powder and working up to an acceptable power. The launchers have a little explosive propellant since you don't have a bullet to build up pressure behind.

On the other hand, If you make something that's much lighter weight than a practice grenade, you might get decent results with a training blank. 5.56 blanks are pretty lame, but 7.62NATO blanks have some real oomph. 7.62x39 might have enough power for a fun game of lawn jarts.

If you can keep the weight of the dummy at about that of a couple of golf balls it should work OK.

yeah it will send them down range, i use the ones that came in 10 round blister packs,i think they are e german .they put my practice grenade about 100-125 yrds,i also picked up some blanks that came in 50 rd boxes ,those ones send it over 200 yrds

what is the outside diameter of the spigot?

some folks make a hole in a tennis ball and launch that,,,,,it includes Fido in the fun!!!

what is the outside diameter of the spigot?

some folks make a hole in a tennis ball and launch that,,,,,it includes Fido in the fun!!!


I am not sure, its one a friend brought back from the sandbox. I am building a new house so most of my guns are in a safe place I can not easily get to right now.

If I were you I would delete that post. Me dont thinks you sposed ta do dat

what is the outside diameter of the spigot?

some folks make a hole in a tennis ball and launch that,,,,,it includes Fido in the fun!!! Why didnt I think of that?? Gonna do that my next trip to the range, see how far they will go.

I see Center Fire has blanks and its free shipping right now so I was wondering- I got a launcher spigot for my M64 and if I can find or build some practice rifle granades would these blanks be appropriate? I know nothing about blanks, thanks!

Here is what I do....
Take a pineapple grenade launcher adapter... and top it off with a tennis ball, or raquet ball with a little bit of lead shot in it. This will make a projectile that almost perfectly matches the trajectory of the real deal when used with normal blanks (since the projectile is lighter). I can hit a campaign sign at 150 yards no problem (the huge 3' by 6') ones