8mm milsurp ammo?
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Thats just cool as a conversation piece. How many guys can say they have 1500 rounds of '44 manufacture 8x57 IN the original cartons IN the original crate.
Next question. My German is a little rusty. Is it linked? On chargers? or loose in packs of 20?
Next question. My German is a little rusty. Is it linked? On chargers? or loose in packs of 20?
Ah! The 8mm Mauser! I bought a couple of crates from Frontier a while ago. I was in P.A. anyway, so….. You know the saying.
Smellie gives good advice. There is nothing wrong with shooting corrosive ammo. A gazillion rounds have been fired off, so far. Get a couple of cans of FLUID FILM and treat the old rifle with a good swabbing after you shoot. It’s not as if all metal parts will disappear right before your eyes after firing one shot!
I await with bated breath for Marstar’s supply ship to come in.
WRT to the saying mentioned above – you can buy toilet paper almost anywhere, any time, but ammunition, especially surplus ammo in as fine a caliber as 7.92x57, well…..
Another alternative to using the original surplus round is to pull the bullet, and use the powder and bullet in a new, primed case. I use a rather rough old M48 as my “go to” rifle when I feel the need to pound off a few good old corrosive 8mm’s.
Smellie gives good advice. There is nothing wrong with shooting corrosive ammo. A gazillion rounds have been fired off, so far. Get a couple of cans of FLUID FILM and treat the old rifle with a good swabbing after you shoot. It’s not as if all metal parts will disappear right before your eyes after firing one shot!
I await with bated breath for Marstar’s supply ship to come in.
WRT to the saying mentioned above – you can buy toilet paper almost anywhere, any time, but ammunition, especially surplus ammo in as fine a caliber as 7.92x57, well…..
Another alternative to using the original surplus round is to pull the bullet, and use the powder and bullet in a new, primed case. I use a rather rough old M48 as my “go to” rifle when I feel the need to pound off a few good old corrosive 8mm’s.
Tracers are legal; it's INCENDIARIES which ar a no-no.
AP? There are tons and tons of it in circulation.
Gummint wouldn't let it in the country if it was a sick bird (ill eagle)!
Unless they grabbed it all for themselves.
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AP? There are tons and tons of it in circulation.
Gummint wouldn't let it in the country if it was a sick bird (ill eagle)!
Unless they grabbed it all for themselves.
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For the love of GOD DO NOT FIRE A SINGLE ROUND OF THAT!
Don't open a box, don't break a seal, nothing. Sell it to a collector who will keep it intact and original and use the money you get to buy either cheap yugo surplus from Marstar or reloading equipment.
If you are intent on selling it or shooting it maybe we can work out a price in order to save it from the impulsive or indifferent.
Don't open a box, don't break a seal, nothing. Sell it to a collector who will keep it intact and original and use the money you get to buy either cheap yugo surplus from Marstar or reloading equipment.
If you are intent on selling it or shooting it maybe we can work out a price in order to save it from the impulsive or indifferent.
I hope your right because tracers are awesome but its technically a bullet with flaming chemicals at its base so in a way it is like incendiaries witch have flaming chemicals at the tip. Also. If they are legal why can I find any? I would love to get my firebug hands on some.
75% of my brass is reworked 270win or 30-06, the rest is 8x57 that i picked up at the range. in fact i havent paid a cent for any of my brass....i collect 20 30-06 for every 1 8x57.
i use 47 grains of 4895 with hornady 150 grain Spitzer bullet, round nosed stuff doesnt want to feed my M48. I get about 150 rounds from a pound of powder, plus primer and about 30c for the bullet comes to be about 55c a round.
I trim on my lathe with the Lee universal trimmer holder in the chuck, i then anneal, resize and trim again. Time consuming, yes....but its a skill that allows me to feed the m48 for dirt cheap which means she gets to keep doing what she was meant to do, even with 8x57 brass becomes non existent. Shoot.
i use 47 grains of 4895 with hornady 150 grain Spitzer bullet, round nosed stuff doesnt want to feed my M48. I get about 150 rounds from a pound of powder, plus primer and about 30c for the bullet comes to be about 55c a round.
I trim on my lathe with the Lee universal trimmer holder in the chuck, i then anneal, resize and trim again. Time consuming, yes....but its a skill that allows me to feed the m48 for dirt cheap which means she gets to keep doing what she was meant to do, even with 8x57 brass becomes non existent. Shoot.
Tracers are designed simply to show you where the thing is going.
Incendiaries are specifically designed to start fires. They are pretty hard to keep track of, as only the British ever got around to really MARKING their Incendiaries well. They used a special headstamp: code letter B. So you get VIIB, BI, BII, BIII, BIV, BVI, BVII nd the neonite versions of the last three: BIVZ, BVIZ, BVIIZ. BIVZ was really interesting; it had a stepped bullet and was an APTI (Armour Piercing Tracer Incendiary) designed for torching armoured gas tanks on aircraft. It worked reasonably well but not always; squirting in half a belt really helped. On the VI and VII, some of it also had a blue tip and, later, the blue tip became the only way to know the stuff...... and the blue paint wore off.
So it's still around. Ottawa sold off millions and millions of rounds of the stuff, gave tons of it away, back before they made it illegal to possess. It was dangerous stuff to have shot at you if you were flying a Zeppelin but not everybody does that these days (outside of "Girl Genius") and it was never the super-destructive thing it was made out to be. I mean, THINK for a moment (the Government doesn't, that's for sure): just how much incendiary compound can you stuff into a .303 bullet..... and still have room left for the jacket and for a lead core to make the thing fly straight? Not much.
But Our Dear Government is wonderfully efficient. They let a batch of Soviet mixed ammo into the country a few years ago. There was lots of Incendiary in it.... then they banned it under the Explosives Regulations after it had been sold. It was marked with paint bands on the tips, using the Warsaw Pact markings, which are different.
But some is still out there. This just isn't it.
If anybody buys a box of this and opens it (I won't), I would really like to obtain 10 or 20 rounds. Serious.
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Incendiaries are specifically designed to start fires. They are pretty hard to keep track of, as only the British ever got around to really MARKING their Incendiaries well. They used a special headstamp: code letter B. So you get VIIB, BI, BII, BIII, BIV, BVI, BVII nd the neonite versions of the last three: BIVZ, BVIZ, BVIIZ. BIVZ was really interesting; it had a stepped bullet and was an APTI (Armour Piercing Tracer Incendiary) designed for torching armoured gas tanks on aircraft. It worked reasonably well but not always; squirting in half a belt really helped. On the VI and VII, some of it also had a blue tip and, later, the blue tip became the only way to know the stuff...... and the blue paint wore off.
So it's still around. Ottawa sold off millions and millions of rounds of the stuff, gave tons of it away, back before they made it illegal to possess. It was dangerous stuff to have shot at you if you were flying a Zeppelin but not everybody does that these days (outside of "Girl Genius") and it was never the super-destructive thing it was made out to be. I mean, THINK for a moment (the Government doesn't, that's for sure): just how much incendiary compound can you stuff into a .303 bullet..... and still have room left for the jacket and for a lead core to make the thing fly straight? Not much.
But Our Dear Government is wonderfully efficient. They let a batch of Soviet mixed ammo into the country a few years ago. There was lots of Incendiary in it.... then they banned it under the Explosives Regulations after it had been sold. It was marked with paint bands on the tips, using the Warsaw Pact markings, which are different.
But some is still out there. This just isn't it.
If anybody buys a box of this and opens it (I won't), I would really like to obtain 10 or 20 rounds. Serious.
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