8mm mauser is almost non existant anymore. Nobody has it, tried cabella wss in Edmonton. I know some site sponsors carry it but would like to avoid shipping charges. Havent tried P+d yet, will try tomorrow.. Any other ideas in AB?
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And also the best way to go! The only 8mm ammo I have seen is that anemic federal blue box stuff.....definitely not getting the full potential from the round. I bought new prvi brass from tradex and have a 195gr interlock and a 200 gr accubond load that both shoot moa from my Frankonia Mauser. With the heavier projectiles it would seem to be very similar to the "new" 338 federal..... The more I shoot the round, the more I realize how capable it is!
Bigrounds8mil
CGN Regular
- Location
- Winnipeg, MB
If you have a Canadian tire that sells firearms & ammo, give the shelf a once over. Only place in Winnipeg that carries PROPER 8x57, I pick up a couple boxes now and then. As stated above, Federal leaves room to be desired and is overpriced (@ $55/box of 20 no less) PPU is decent, I've had great success with Sellier & Bellot 8x57 JS 196gr SPCE. Assuming your shooting a post 1920ish K98
- Location
- West Central Alberta
I have a couple of boxes of S&B 196gr SPCE and I haven't tried it yet but dang that sure is weird looking bullet.
btw...our local Home Hardware had some Federal 8mm for $62 per box...yeah right!
S&B 196 SPCE rounds fly like laser beams out of both my K98 rifles
I picked up a box of PPU FMJ from a friend and with 10 rounds in each rifle I could not hit a 20x32 inch target at 100 yards this ammo also had signifigantly less recoil than the S&B (bad batch?). This ammo resulted in my friend selling his K98 due to poor accuracy....I'm thinking it was his ammo.
Hornady SP Customs are nice rounds too and perform about as well as the S&B (only shot 5 rounds)
I found 8x57 Ammunition at
Tradeex
Tenda (supply varies)
Canada Ammo
I will be sticking with S&B as my quality ammo choice in this Calibre
I picked up a box of PPU FMJ from a friend and with 10 rounds in each rifle I could not hit a 20x32 inch target at 100 yards this ammo also had signifigantly less recoil than the S&B (bad batch?). This ammo resulted in my friend selling his K98 due to poor accuracy....I'm thinking it was his ammo.
Hornady SP Customs are nice rounds too and perform about as well as the S&B (only shot 5 rounds)
I found 8x57 Ammunition at
Tradeex
Tenda (supply varies)
Canada Ammo
I will be sticking with S&B as my quality ammo choice in this Calibre
Travis Bickle
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Upper Lower Middle Alberta
I sold my Mausers a ways back because of this exact reason. It was scarce and very pricey even 5 years back.
Now I know I made the right decision.
To quote a great man: Well a gun without any bullets in it ain't much use now is it!?
Reloading seems to be the only viable solution Sir.
Now I know I made the right decision.
To quote a great man: Well a gun without any bullets in it ain't much use now is it!?
Reloading seems to be the only viable solution Sir.
Sometimes Seba arms gets a few boxes of Yugo surplus in but its never more then a hundred rounds or so. I bought a bunch of S&B from Tenda last year for around the $30/box mark but the shipping is pricey. Buying boxed stuff from the Cabellas/WWS/ Crappy tire is gonna be real expensive! I saw some Hornady at Leduc and it was 70 something a box! not going to feed my 34 with that stuff that's for sure.
Reloading is really the only option as that's what I do now but its still expensive and its getting hard to find any 8mm brass and decent bullets. To initially reload using new components is around $1.50 or so per round by the time you buy everything. Just the brass and bullet costs a buck! The costs go down from there as you can reuse the brass and you hope that you can get many rounds from one brass.
Reloading is really the only option as that's what I do now but its still expensive and its getting hard to find any 8mm brass and decent bullets. To initially reload using new components is around $1.50 or so per round by the time you buy everything. Just the brass and bullet costs a buck! The costs go down from there as you can reuse the brass and you hope that you can get many rounds from one brass.
Tradex still has a bunch of 8mm components - as the .325wsm and 8mm rem mag continue to fade into obscurity the 8mm stuff may get harder to find - but the 8x57 seems to be pretty ubiquitous in Europe (much like the .30-06 is here). Production isn't going to stop anytime soon, the problem seems to be low demand making it less likely to be imported to North America.
GunsNotPuns
CGN frequent flyer
Rule 17 of Gun Ownership: If thou shall fire ye guns of olde age, thou hadst better knoweth how to reload your bræs.
Kids...you think 8mm Mauser is hard to find? Try 8×50mmR for a M1885 Steyr Kropatschek or 8x58mmRD for a Husqvarna Rolling Block. Even reloading for them is difficult as hell
Kids...you think 8mm Mauser is hard to find? Try 8×50mmR for a M1885 Steyr Kropatschek or 8x58mmRD for a Husqvarna Rolling Block. Even reloading for them is difficult as hell
Bigrounds8mil
CGN Regular
- Location
- Winnipeg, MB
Yep, definitley a different looking bullet, but accurate as hell and the expansion on it, holy f@#k! Theres a couple vids of it on youtube vs a convential softpoint, S&B did it right. And man that stuff shoots quick!
Bigrounds8mil
CGN Regular
- Location
- Winnipeg, MB
Thats funny, had the same experience with my K98 and PPU ammo, thought it was the gun, maybe I wasnt holding right, flinching, blah blah blah. S&B works at 200 yds for me every time.
Gotta wonder if PPU makes their bullet diameters smaller like the american manufacturers so they will work in both the old and late model 98's? Never checked PPU bullet diameter but thats the only thing I could come up with
Reload. I do have a fair supply of surplus Yugo 8mm, corrosive as can be. I shoot it mostly in a beater M48. Kicks like a mule! I have quite a few 8x57 Mausers and two or three Straight-pull carbines with Mauser 8mm barrels. I do reload for them once in a while. I bought a good supply of el cheapo 7.62x51 Norinco, and shoot it in a couple of Israeli Mausers. Next on my list os to burn off some 7.62x54R in my Mosin Nagants.
I still have almost a full 5 gal pail of surplus Yugo 8mm. It shoots dirty AF, but it does go bang. When I first started shooting 8mm I picked up a few dozen of boxes of S&B and PRVI commercial ammo just so I can end up with good brass. Both makes of brass are very good for reloading, but at the end of the day I ended up buying 500 Norma 8mm brass, new/unfired.
As a personal preference for loading 8mm, I like 170 or 180gr soft points. It shoots high in all my Yugo and K98 rifles, but so does the Yugo surplus.
As a personal preference for loading 8mm, I like 170 or 180gr soft points. It shoots high in all my Yugo and K98 rifles, but so does the Yugo surplus.
- Location
- Newmarket,Ontario
What he said^^^^^^^
- Location
- Newmarket,Ontario
lots of 30.06 brass around, make 8MM Mauser brass out of them.
