what can I build with an 8mm Mauser

[dahs]

You could build an incredibly beautiful rifle. I'd leave it in 8x57, or if it needed a rebarreling job, something with as much history and class. Put it in a grainy Turkish walnut stock. Finished to perfection. Checkering done by hand. Double set triggers. Those 3 leaf express sights. A model 70 style trigger. All the metal polished to a shine, then blued until it looked a mile deep. Handmade leather sling, with a barrel band for the front.

Sorry I'm just dreaming with your money.

 

[Cleftwynd]

You could build an incredibly beautiful rifle. I'd leave it in 8x57, or if it needed a rebarreling job, something with as much history and class. Put it in a grainy Turkish walnut stock. Finished to perfection. Checkering done by hand. Double set triggers. Those 3 leaf express sights. A model 70 style trigger. All the metal polished to a shine, then blued until it looked a mile deep. Handmade leather sling, with a barrel band for the front.

Sorry I'm just dreaming with your money.

I was drooling half way through that post!

I have to vote for keeping the 8mm Mauser as it is as well, it's just too rich in history and a very potent and functional round. Nothing says Mauser K98 better than the 8x57!!!

 

[Calum]

Couldn't agree more, the 8X57 is an excellent round !

I really wish mine was in .308 or 30.06 as trying to find 8x57JS in our area sucks and admirers of this cartridge get scarce when one goes up for sale...I may have to give it a Viking funeral.

 

[Kevan]

...I may have to give it a Viking funeral.

Or swap it to some old gentleman who likes 8X57s....

 

[c-fbmi]

I've built 8x57 AI, 8mm-06, 8mm-06 AI, 8mm Gibbs, 8mm PMM ( 8mm-338 Win Mag, PMM stands for poor man's magnum), and an 8x68 on them. The 8mm PMM will require the bolt face opened up. - Dan

Hey Dan, I was taught that the 8mm PMM was based on the 308 Norma and was done a fair bit even before the 338 came out, could have been misinformed. The 8mm-06 though was never called the 8mm poor mans magnum, that much I do know.
To bump it up to a belted case requires a bunch of rail work, to get them feeding properly, as well as the bolt face work. I built my first 257 Bee on a completely original VZ 24 rifle in 8X57 JS. It turned out to be a lot of work as it was my very first project when I was 18 years old and working under the supervision of an old German 'smith, who was a perfectionist. No dremel tools in them days, it was all done with his set of stones (he wouldn't let me use the mill as he said I should learn the proper way first and there was also no chance of wrecking the action with stones as there was with the mill). I also lengthened the magazine box on that VZ and made the floorplate hinge and latch, removed the stipper clip ears with a file and made it match a commercial 98 perfectly............It was a lot of enjoyable work !!!
It taught me patience I had previously never envisioned possible.

Sorry OP, got off on a reminiscing tangent, remembering an old friend and mentor who has long since passed.

 

[fuzzy]

I wish I had the time and contacts to work under the supervision of someone like that. You are a fortunate man and some of us younger guys like to read about you old guys getting nostalgic( yes I just called you old.

Fuzzy

 

[broadhead67]

debatable , like most info available online, some say 8mm'06 is the "misers magnum" some say its the poor mans magnum.some say the 8mm x 338 was the P.P.M. Can't be much difference between the 338 federal & 8mm/ 06.

Hey Dan, I was taught that the 8mm PMM was based on the 308 Norma and was done a fair bit even before the 338 came out, could have been misinformed. The 8mm-06 though was never called the 8mm poor mans magnum, that much I do know.
To bump it up to a belted case requires a bunch of rail work, to get them feeding properly, as well as the bolt face work. I built my first 257 Bee on a completely original VZ 24 rifle in 8X57 JS. It turned out to be a lot of work as it was my very first project when I was 18 years old and working under the supervision of an old German 'smith, who was a perfectionist. No dremel tools in them days, it was all done with his set of stones (he wouldn't let me use the mill as he said I should learn the proper way first and there was also no chance of wrecking the action with stones as there was with the mill). I also lengthened the magazine box on that VZ and made the floorplate hinge and latch, removed the stipper clip ears with a file and made it match a commercial 98 perfectly............It was a lot of enjoyable work !!!
It taught me patience I had previously never envisioned possible.

Sorry OP, got off on a reminiscing tangent, remembering an old friend and mentor who has long since passed.

 

[dan belisle]

debatable , like most info available online, some say 8mm'06 is the "misers magnum" some say its the poor mans magnum.some say the 8mm x 338 was the P.P.M. Can't be much difference between the 338 federal & 8mm/ 06.

About as much difference as between the 308 and 30-06, give or take. As to the PPM, way before the Internet existed the ones I saw were 8mm-338 Win Mag, designed to use military surplus rifles but give near 338 Win Mag performance on the cheap. Or so I read anyway. So I built one, because I had about a dozen military surplus Mauser 98's laying around and I liked to try new and different cartridges. - dan