I need someone to make me some 8mm Mauser dummy rounds

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I would like someone on the forum to make me 12 or 15 8mm Mauser dummy rounds. I need to magazine function-test a WWII German rifle. I don't have dies or components (yet) or I'd do it myself.

It has been my experience that dummy rounds take a tremendous beating compared to any loaded round. The last time I needed some 7.62x39 dummy rounds for hunter safety training, the final model had a long drywall screw screwed into the base of the bullet. Pop the primer, rough trim the screw to length, put a goodly dollup of epoxy on the shank and inside the neck, then seat the bullet to OAL. Leave sitting upright in the loading block. The screw helps support the bullet, and the epoxy settles nicely into the cartridge base to lock things together.

Thanks for the assist.

 

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Just checking back. I'd hoped not to scare off any generous soul, who took another approach. Only trying to share my experience building dummy rounds for hunter instruction classes.

The students need to learn several action types. I'd take an plastic stocked SKS with a low power scope, an Ivor Johnson 12ga. hinge, a Win 1300 pump, and a single shot Cooey bolt. The hunter education organization put the touch on Winchester and got us a wide variety of dummies including .22LR, but no 7.62x39. Wasn't going to use a good rifle just because there were free dummy rounds. I tried crimping bullets on empty 7.62x39 cases, but they didn't hold up to fumble fingers and bolt slams. Hence, my screw and epoxy method.