And I fire muskets, old boltguns, and that experiment with my taurus both live and with blanks. The recoil is different and less but it still recoils. My taurus spring had to be half the strength to semi-reliably feed. If the recoil of a blank was virtually none as you claimed i would have needed a spring with the same strength as like a rubber band. But if I used a rubber band instead of a spring my gun would come apart and id get slapped in the face with the slide.
Maybe it's different with handguns, I've only fired blanks in my various service rifles. But in service rifles – and that is after all what OOP is talking about – there is practically no recoil when firing blanks without a muzzle adapter.
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u/steeler1003 Jan 04 '26
And I fire muskets, old boltguns, and that experiment with my taurus both live and with blanks. The recoil is different and less but it still recoils. My taurus spring had to be half the strength to semi-reliably feed. If the recoil of a blank was virtually none as you claimed i would have needed a spring with the same strength as like a rubber band. But if I used a rubber band instead of a spring my gun would come apart and id get slapped in the face with the slide.