Where to get 8mm Mauser Ammo?
- Thread starter Alon
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Lever Arms has the yugo surplus but it's corrosive and I think the stuff tends sells is non corrosive so you'd be better off with that
Tradeex has the PPU ammo
If you want to shoot a bunch of 8mm your best bet is to get set up and reload your own
Tradeex has the PPU ammo
If you want to shoot a bunch of 8mm your best bet is to get set up and reload your own
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- Western Manitoba
If you decide to use PPU ammo, take a cruise through their website. Their European loading and their North American loading. CIP in Europe name the cartridge "8x57IS" and set max pressure at 56,000+ psi. SAAMI in USA names the cartridge "8mm Mauser" or "8x57" and sets the max pressure at 35,000 psi. PPU lists products for both 8x57IS and 8mm Mauser - not the same, significant difference in advertised muzzle velocity with identical bullet! Also, PPU website shows the bullets loaded in their factory loads - look under reloading components and you will see .322" and .323" available in most weights. I prefer what PPU does - good information, readily available. Not so much with most others...
Be careful with the russian repackaged white box stuff tenda and canadaammo sell there is multiple report out there on other forum and right here of alot of overpressure sign from this ammo (flat primer, pierced primer etc). I personally had trouble with those in my rifles.
I would avoid the whitebox Russian ammo from Tenda and Canada Ammo. In my mix master Russian capture K98 it gives me some serious overpressure signs. My M48 cycles it a bit better but it's still pretty hot.
Yugo surplus is pretty good stuff. You can usually find it on here or at gun shows. Best bet is to start reloading though!
Yugo surplus is pretty good stuff. You can usually find it on here or at gun shows. Best bet is to start reloading though!
Well odds are you aren't going to damage the rifle. The actions are pretty stout. Did you buy a case of that white box stuff? That's how I learned the hard way. Been steadily breaking it down for components. If you did buy it try shooting it. If it's really hard to extract, flattening primers or splitting cases you know it's time to stop.
The PPU stuff is good, kinda mild but the brass is excellent. The S&B stuff shoots great, brass is pretty poor. Yugo surplus is also great but corrosive. Most other surplus you see floating around can be iffy.
The PPU stuff is good, kinda mild but the brass is excellent. The S&B stuff shoots great, brass is pretty poor. Yugo surplus is also great but corrosive. Most other surplus you see floating around can be iffy.
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I shoot yugo and Turkish. You can find it by the case by looking around. Picked up a second case of turkish for 500 dollars. Both types of ammo shoot great.
that is pretty much the best you are going to do with price. I bought some and I am glad that I didn't buy more to be honest. I fired this reloaded ammo and it recoils harder than S&B and does not cycle as well (ie opening the bolt is much harder to open after firing) I have fired a total of 7 rounds and put the gun away. I try to scoop the 8mm I can at gun shows or whenever I can buy boxes under $30 for SP.
I have consigned myself to using these rifles on holiday, birthdays\and hunting. Still have the reloaded ammo and I will probably use it but i'd happily rather have some Hornady, Winchester or Hornady rounds instead. The only rounds that I ever have trouble with other than those were PPU....3 rifles and I still don't know where that ammo goes after firing 10 rounds though each, I could never hit a target where the other rifles matched the sights either exactly or just a few inches lower. PPU never hit paper with it FMJ or SP.
I have bought 8mm from Tenda and Tradeex mostly, and gun shows.
Somewhere I read that you can load up '32 special' bullets. If this is the case you could start casting your own? There has got to be molds for the 32 out there. I'm going to look into this more myself as I have both a win94 in 32spl and a couple mausers.
I have a Lee mould that drops 175 gr. I gas check them, run them through a .322 Lee sizer die. I use Lee Liquid Alox prior to gas check/size, then another tumble in Alox. I use them in both 8x57 and my old .32's. If I am going to dust some out of an 8mm at a bit more speed, I put some LBT lube on with my fingers.
I tried this 8x57 "Russian" stuff. I put that in quotes, as it's actually German manufacture that was sold or given to Romania, and than later "captured" by the Russians. Recently it was rebuilt in Russia for commercial sale with non corrosive primers.
I've chronographed it, and broke a bunch down and reloaded the components. I've posted about this every time is comes up, but the short and sweet is.... It's a combination of soft primers, and maybe casings that have been over annealed. They are not actually overpressure, they do show some pretty concearning signs. I know they are fine, because I've reloaded them in modern cases that had less volume, gained an extra 100fps, and were fine.
I've chronographed it, and broke a bunch down and reloaded the components. I've posted about this every time is comes up, but the short and sweet is.... It's a combination of soft primers, and maybe casings that have been over annealed. They are not actually overpressure, they do show some pretty concearning signs. I know they are fine, because I've reloaded them in modern cases that had less volume, gained an extra 100fps, and were fine.
