7.5 x 55.5mm Swiss wood blank model 1911
This cartridge is brass cased, with a brass primer and black primer seal or steel cased with a brown lacquer coating during WW2. The case length conforms to the newer 1911 ball cartridge. The “bullet” is green stained wood and secured in the case by coning at the mouth and a three, later four, segment crimp low down in the neck. The bullet is distinctly slimmer than the earlier wood bullet blanks, is this because of changes in the chambering of the rifles? I show various headstamps.
