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Mladen

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Any chance of the full charge 8mm mauser ammo making its way over here from Europe. I bought some PRVI 8mm and noticed that there are 2 versions of the ammo. All I could find in Canada is the lover velocity kind.
 
The yugo 50's is the reason I am asking this. I have some 53 and 54 year ammo. And every second will not fire the first time. I do not feel like replacing the spring just to shoot this stuff. Seeing the hammer move an 1/4 of an inch every time I pull the trigger is annoying to say the least. No split cases yet!
 
JNA;
Yes we have some, we may bring it into Canada in 2012....
BTW do you mean the M-76 Sniper rifle ?

John
 
johnone said:
JNA;
Yes we have some, we may bring it into Canada in 2012....
BTW do you mean the M-76 Sniper rifle ?

John
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I would love the m-76 sniper rifle, but I thought that it was prohibited. But in the previous posting, I meant the m75 8mm sniper rounds as seen here:

http://www.sgammo.com/product/surplus/15-rd-box-8mm-m75-sniper-ammo-yugoslavian-1984-mfg
 
Anything that is not so downloaded like the Win, Rem, Federal. Surplus sounds so good since its from the old country. Makes me feel even better.
This ammo restriction from the states is a real pain.....
 
I found that the Yugo surplus (I had 1954) worked very well in my M48BO; 300m sights at 300ft was on target, as was Romanian 1975 surplus, except the lighter Romanian stuff (I believe 156gr) had a wider spread and I had many cracked (steel) cases over 70rds fired---I won't buy it again.

But the 2010 Serbian PPU 198gr stuff was junk; smokey, smelly, and the sights had to be set at 600m (low) or 700m (high) to get it on target at 300ft. And expensive to boot. Once I fire
off a couple boxes I have left, I won't buy it again. Funny because the chances are they made the old Yugo military stuff back in the day....

Also, I noticed that the Romanian ammo is slightly shorter, and sometimes had feed issues, whereas the other FMJ ammo didn't. The worst is the 139gr PPU soft-point ammo for feeding---the projectile tip is terrible. Between the Yugo surplus and the new Serbian ammo, the surplus has a sharper projectile.

So has been my experience with the 4 different types of ammo---I dream about cases of surplus ammo on stripper clips like they sell in the States!
 
this topic comes up once in a while. again thats when reloading comes in handy. pull the bullet and the powder out and reload them in a new case with a new primer and throw the old cases away
 
I have shot the PPU fmj not too long ago in the cold and at 50y the grouping was about an open palm length. I will have to try longer ranges and see what the outcome is. I had bad exp with the 53-54' surplus Yugo. I wish some more surplus ammo would show up....
 
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