jah, tegemist oli Rolando Blondo, vastupanuliikumise ehk Resistance'i ridadesse kuulunud mehega.

Minu teada oli ta nimi küll Pierre Blondeau.

BALLE BLONDEAU (France) was designed by Pierre Blondeau during Second World War for paramilitary purposes. Designer Blondeau was an active member of French Maquissard resistance movement. It was found that a burst of STEN submachine gun was unable to damage even the unarmored motor vehicles, but a shot or two from a shotgun could be effective, if the projectile had some kind of sheet metal perforation. Use of spherical hardened steel bearing balls was familiar to Frenchmen from MGM shells designed for wild boar hunting, but for destruction of much bigger "game" was needed a cylindrical wadcutter-like shotgun bullet. Many shotguns were confiscated by Germans, but quantity of them were hidden to the "yemmah" (a cache in Finnish) before the occupation of France.

After the WW II, design of P. Blondeau was almost forgotten elsewhere but in France. In the last half of 1960s it was suddenly once again known world-wide as a good and accurate big-game bullet, when introduced by the GUN DIGEST yearbook as "a revolutionary new discovery", but again forgotten until early 1980s when copies of Balle Blondeau were produced also outside France: "Imitation is the highest degree of flattery!". For example, the sub-caliber (saboted) PMDK bullet, described earlier on this GOW's series "Technics and History" (also bi-lingually) is nothing but a cheaper variation of Blondeau's Bullet.

Balle Blondeau or "French Bobbin Bullet" is also a sub-caliber projectile with diameter of it's flat point and base considerably less than the diameter of shotgun bore and muzzle of even the gun with Full Choke. There are narrow lead belts fastened into grooves around point and base of the "bobbin". They make the bullet to become bore-sized and well-fitting into the shotshell case. Blondeau projectiles had notched lead rings in 1960s. It was possible to shoot them even from Full-Choked shotgun bore (constriction ca. one millimeter in 12 gauge gun).

Some later copies have smooth lead rings of about nominal bore size in diameter. They are O.K. for the bores with Modified choke, Improved Cylinder choked or True Cylinder bores, and the special Slug Bore of guns like ITHACA "Deerslayer", along with the guns with a Paradox rifling, or rifled shotgun (spare) barrels.