8mm Surplus Ammunition: The good, bad and down right dangerous

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@evanmorris2420 9 жыл бұрын

I soldiered through 15 minutes of the lip smacking and couldn't take any more.

@Spicoli1Bilek 9 жыл бұрын

I didn't even make it that far

@greatwhitejake88 9 жыл бұрын

I stopped at 3.17 seconds lmao, driving me absolutely nuts

@karmakittenz69 6 жыл бұрын

Right? God help you if you tried to use headphones.

@thefuzzysheep3859 Жыл бұрын

Made it a minute

@mr_ThreeEight_1776 Жыл бұрын

Jesus christ it makes me wanna eat my 8mm FMJ, idk how you did this

@dhooter 7 жыл бұрын

I have 100 8mm incendiary "exploding" rounds. My grandfather got ahold of them before leaving Europe during WWII. The rifle came off a German soldier in Austria. During that time of the war Soldiers got 5 cents for every German weapon turned in. It's has the Nazi symbols on the bolt,barrel,bolt handle,buttstock all numbers from what I can tell are the same. He shipped it in a box labeled pool sticks. I have a luger and his issued 1911.

@qwerty-vl4ee 6 жыл бұрын

90% of the comment section is about Lip Smacking

@BrazenBullXXX 9 жыл бұрын

The lip smacking is incredibly distracting.

@Pashtet1991 9 жыл бұрын

+BrazenBullXXX Agreed.... Lip smacking is annoying

@m.rondot2082 5 жыл бұрын

Holy cow! Info on ammo detailed and informative. Noted about pressure, core material, heat treating, and powder contents. That information is great!! However, I had to stop watching the video at 7:00 minutes in... Tongue to palate clicks, also known as, lip smacking, made me want to eat one of those bullets in the video...

@firesupport162 5 жыл бұрын

Your bleeding eyes are way more distracting😂

@halo3odst 9 жыл бұрын

How was the peanut butter sandwich?

@Ner0blaz3r 9 жыл бұрын

Gold, that comment was gold!

@jettaguy0119 8 жыл бұрын

+halo3odst fingers in my eyes as i read this comment lol i wanted to strangle this guy. smh

@halo3odst 8 жыл бұрын

Push the fingers in harder and my comment will go away.

@jettaguy0119 8 жыл бұрын

? i was referring to his tooth smacking, but thanks anyway man.

@jdod64 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@robinreiley1828 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the research and time you took. I've had an M98 Danzig made 1915 Mauser since 1980. It is a sporterized Interarms import with a bent/ spooned bolt and a low rise safe switch. I have primarily used it for deer hunting in the Catskill Mountains. I had originally intended to put a scope on it but it worked so well with the original sights I never did. It is the one rifle I have never considered selling. Thanks again for the info,!

@chuckhaynes6458 7 жыл бұрын

I've been shootn' 8mm for 40 years. I liked your video a lot. WW2 German s.S. ammo loaded at P 25 (Metallwarenfabrik Treuenbrietzen) prior to 1943 is the best I have shot.I wish you could have covered Portuguese, but I guess you can't get them all. It's too bad that Privi and U.S. loaders are still expecting .318 bores with their puny loads. I think I have fired most everything you showed. Also Italian BPD 952 and Greek EnK 52 were very accurate with few miss fires. Thanks again for posting this.

@kurtphillips7038 Жыл бұрын

5:25 boring....

@kimcurtis9366 6 жыл бұрын

Somewhere around 35 years ago, I got a great deal on some surplus 8mm ammo and I bought it! It is, I think, Portuguese and is head stamped FCPQ and dated 1944 and 1945. I believe it was VERY badly stored and now, I only use it for the very nice bullet and the powder as they mostly, don't fire because the primers are so badly corroded. What primers are good, one can still see a green ring around them. They used to be a very bright green but, now, after all the years of storage, they have faded. I no longer have an 8mm but, still hope to get another before I kick the bucket! If you'd like, I'll send you and handful of the best and worst examples, for your collection. When I first got them they either fired or they didn't, NO hangfires! They were faily accurate when they fired but, over half of them wouldn't fire so, only good for components and for an example of what they were! I reload and have a lot of components dies, etc! Thanks for the video!

@idangreenberg7451 2 ай бұрын

I used to be in the ammo business in Phoenix Arizona from 1973 to 2013 and literally acquired and sold millions of rounds of 8 mm Mauser, particularly Portuguese and later Turkish and German surplus, being an outlet for j&g sales, century, samco, sarco, Pacific international, etcetera. Really enjoyed your video. Definitely agree about avoiding any German steel case surplus made after 1942. I know of later world war II German surplus that blew up mg34 and 42s. I also sold large quantities of American and Canadian manufacturer 8 * 57. It should be remembered that the czech Besa machine gun in that caliber was used by both the British and Germans. It was the tank machine gun, particularly for coaxial mounting. And huge quantities of 8/57 Mauser were made for the nationalist Chinese as well, both for Mauser rifles and for their Bren and zb26 guns in those calibers. Every bit of American and world war II Canadian that I ever fired worked very well, what was loaded to the max. I saw WRA head stamped 8 * 57 made during the war, that would blow the Opera on out of the German g43 every time you shot it. Again great video and if you're still into it I would like to see more!!

@bellator11 10 жыл бұрын

The German 198 gr sS rounds are the best I have fired through the K98. They are extremely consistent and accurate, and the ballistic coefficient of that heavy boat tailed round is an amazing .580+ G1. It comes as little surprise that the Germans shaped their V2 rockets after this round :)

@stephenmaurer3548 9 жыл бұрын

Anyone reload to duplicate this round?? 198 gr is a "tack-driver" in my Yugo m24/47.

@brandonbentley8532 5 жыл бұрын

bellator11 those are hard to come by these days, guys are holding on to the good stuff...

@johnnyfedpost1776 8 жыл бұрын

if I had billions of dollars, I would create a company that makes nothing but reproduction "surplus" ammo for the cheapest price possible!

@baronsamedi6144 6 жыл бұрын

Chris Hutchins - you get Chinese reloads where the cases can be quite old(it can be differentiated from real surplus ammo because the cases vary within the boxes)

@brandonbentley8532 5 жыл бұрын

Chris Hutchins good way to make billions.

@RussellHoughton 4 жыл бұрын

Any of that brass cased ammo boxer primed.

@zal7782 3 жыл бұрын

Please, I’d sell my first born child for a cheap box of 8mm Mauser

@jackbarnes9728 2 жыл бұрын

@@zal7782 You can get original brass cased German rounds starting at 15$ a box on of all places Gunbroker. There was a guy on there selling 8mm that was manufactured in 2016 250$ for a 500 count. Are you looking for cheap or free?

@jesjms069 7 жыл бұрын

Very informative, thank you. I was able to identify some of my surplus ammo as Egyptian! And some were FNM, which is the Mexican contract for Fabrique National. Thanks, again.

@trsgringo 3 жыл бұрын

The best Yugo 8mm ammo is the stuff from 1940 in 15 round boxes on stripper clips. I was just shooting some a couple weeks ago. Ammo is 81 years old and shoots like new.

@Johnny-jr2lq 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information on the green 8mm

@Russianpaintrain 2 жыл бұрын

Yes , always finding Argentina 7.65 and 30-06 mixed in when bought loose , with 308 as a filler of shorts , also found 270 Winchester in sealed 30-06 M-2 boxes from India , to most common problems Ive had , just take the time to inspect every single round , no hiccups or surprises. I have 18 different makers of 8mm , with the late imported Turkish being the only problematic of any , being stored poorly by apperence , but all throw a 3-4 inch group at 100 meters , G98 , 98K , 1903 , FN49, CZ24 , all working fine otherwise , great video work , well done.

@JoshuaDomoslai 5 жыл бұрын

Good info. I bought an ammo can full of the 1943 stuff packed in bandoliers in stripper clips. Hopefully it works good in my yugo m48 I bought. I don’t know anything about 8mm yet.

@Gwurlitzer 10 жыл бұрын

20+ years ago I bought a 1400 round case of the Turkish 1943 8mm in bandoliers on stripper clips for $99 shipped from century arms. It shoots fine had a couple minor splits and 1 round I had to strike twice. Very informative video. Thanks....... P.S. I saw Yugo 8mm milsurp from the 70's for $200 1000 rnd can and I had no money on me. Went back 3 days later and the whole pallet was sold.

@MrRicomex 2 жыл бұрын

Very impressive, sir. One of these weekends I may take a look at some of my surplus 8mm rounds and try to I.D. them as per your video!

@jimsworthow531 3 жыл бұрын

Great content on a rundown of 8mm; thanks!

@karamelles98 8 жыл бұрын

When i bought my mauser K98 i got a bunch of mixed surplus ammo, most of it was norwegian pre-war 7.92X57mm FMJ and some german ww1/ww2. Interesting thing is that i even got a few steel cased german 8mm rounds from barn, and apart from that all german made ammo worked, out of norwegian stuff roughly 10% had bad primers.

@jettaguy0119 8 жыл бұрын

great info man, im glad i know to watch out for this ammo now!

@skinnyflea2628 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you youtube for recommending me this. It was interesting.

@claus2427 9 жыл бұрын

My Hakim like the Romanian steel cased stuff the best, it fires and ejects every round/casing on the first gas setting.

@richmcintyre1178 8 жыл бұрын

lip smacking good vid

@NibNa5ty 3 жыл бұрын

I hate that shit so much

@jpd343 9 жыл бұрын

thanks for the info on 8mm ammo! it gave me a good perspective on what to look out for! I have a 8x60 Magnum Mauser which was inherited from my grand father. It was in storage for the past 50+ years and almost never fired. In looking for ammo for it, I've identified they made two bore sizes for the same gun model: a .318 and a .323. From some research it seems like it's the .318. I'll only know for sure once we cast and measure the bore size. However, from what I read, 30-06 brass can be resized to fit it. What is your opinion about this?

@brandonbentley8532 5 жыл бұрын

The romanian steel cased is my go to round. Loads great shoots great. I get 1 in 100 split neck.

@cloroxbleach8676 2 жыл бұрын

That’s 1%!!!

@thomastoups3451 3 жыл бұрын

I've used a lot of surplus 8mm and have found that most of the reliability issues revolve around the ammunition being improperly stored and - somehow - over the many decades, moisture has accumulated inside the case. I have a cure for this that is very effective, safe and cheap. I put the troublesome rounds in a cardboard box and set that on top of my oil-filled, radiator type room heater (ON THE LOW SETTING!!!). As long as the heater setting is not too high to place your hand on it, the cardboard box will not burn. The rounds can sit there for many days, slowly and safely being de-moisturized. This process eliminates the vast majority of misfires.

@lassenlautta 6 жыл бұрын

i just watched people uncrate m39 for an hour .. this is awesome you guy do you .. greets from finland

@hanfpeter3742 7 жыл бұрын

the "s" in smk stands for "spitz mit (stahl)kern. meaning: pointy with with (steel) core. "s" stands for spitz=pointy

@johnleaf1869 9 жыл бұрын

Oh shutup people about the lip smacking. This video really helped me to keep from blowing up my gun and not getting crummy rounds.

@illiminatieoverlordgurglek140 6 жыл бұрын

I lasted until 1:32 in the lipsmacking challenge.

@jackbarnes9728 2 жыл бұрын

The guy is also full of shit on some of his "facts".

@jeffnelson1672 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative video. Thank you.

@ducpretender 8 жыл бұрын

Good info. I made it all the way to 14.00. At that point I could no longer take the ANNOYING Teeth Sucking!

@blueduck9409 2 жыл бұрын

You can mute the video, and enable closed captions or subtitles.

@MasterToan 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks! lots of good information.

@hoffmannamps 11 жыл бұрын

Very good review of some of the various rounds that can found in 8mm. Thank You! By the way You speak just fine.

@pilgrimm23 8 жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation. Thank you

@Kpoole35 2 жыл бұрын

9:54 your Yugo round was likely made at the Bosnia-Montenegro plant. Code 12 was used as a load identification number or the month of manufacture. PPU used a Cyrillic letter code or number 11 for factory ID in the 50's.

@BIMMERK12S 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the informative vid! I'm about to pick up a K98K

@davejones2883 11 жыл бұрын

I bought a box of 50 Egyptian rounds, same headstamp as the video. I have tried 5 rounds, and not a SINGLE ONE has fired out of my Karbiner 98 (which has the upgraded firing pin spring). I have shot Belgian, Turk, Romanian, German, Ecuadorian, and Yugo with absolutely NO problems. Gonna disassemble the Egyptian stuff for components.

@gregoryjames7703 9 жыл бұрын

Ive got about a 1000 round of ww1 era mauser food. Bought it in texas its amazing.

@dan4466 10 жыл бұрын

Had to check my '54 Yugo when you mentioned the problems. Mine is 12 like yours...whew. Bought a 900rd tin a few months ago for $150. Think I did pretty good. Had to drive 150mi for it, but it was well worth it.

@KurtOnoIR 6 жыл бұрын

dan4466 just saw a tin of 900 for 799$ then shopped around and the cheapest was 740$ for 900rds of yugo. wow what 3yrs can do to the price.

@hionthemountain 9 жыл бұрын

nice job on the vid . . .very good info...tnx

@Airsoftforall 4 жыл бұрын

The test rounds are great to pull them apart and the rebuild with a proper charge. I was able to get 100 rounds for $10. Pulled them apart and wasted the powder and then recharged them and shot them just fine.

@dedosare 8 жыл бұрын

ППУ stands for Prvi Partizan Uzice in cyrilic. Its a serbian ammo manufacturer .

@navigatorx1013 8 жыл бұрын

+dedo sare thx

@dedosare 8 жыл бұрын

***** www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=uzice

@atam4023 4 жыл бұрын

it was Yugoslavia, neh?

@TiredOfApathy 6 жыл бұрын

I got some Iranian stuff I think from the 50s and it hangs super bad! Love it! Its good for me to train my trigger discipline. I do not allow anyone else to touch it though.

@b.hessing1182 7 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering if you could do an update to this video or maybe a follow up? I just bought a VZ 24 at a gun show and I'm having a hard time finding any surplus 8mm. All I could find was 1 bandoleer of Turkish stuff but it was .50 cents a round. Anyway, thanks for the video!

@thesmokinggun8674 7 жыл бұрын

B. Hessing if you want cheap 8mm and various countries go to libertytreecollectors.

@rustysink22 11 жыл бұрын

I agree. The Yugo stuff is good no doubt. The 50's have hard primers for MGs which makes it hard for the rifle firing pin to set them off.

@ta2joe13 8 жыл бұрын

hey there, I have a Cz brno WW2 era mauser in 8×57mm it has some tool markings of the barrel but I don't know how to decipher them. The rifle itself is in awesome condition and I'd like to learn more about it if possible

@issstari954 5 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful

@lisar3006 11 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine is a class 3 firearms dealer and has an MG-42. Back in the late 70s the steal cased German ammo was very common. We got 8000 rds of the steal cased ammo still in the MG belts once and found his MG-42 did not like the steal cased ammo and jammed it about every 5th shot. The steal ammo worked fine in the MG-34. We still came across German brass ammo from WWII and his MG-42 fired it fine. 8mm has all but dried up now days and I been cutting and forming 8X57 ammo from 30-06 brass.

@mikahelander3224 11 жыл бұрын

The turkish ammo really does burn hot :) i had the floor plate loose and when i shot, the floor plate released and rest of the clip was on the floor.. nowdays i mostly use the Portuguese surplus, awesome stuff!

@Gawernator 9 жыл бұрын

Very informative thanks

@sammoorefield4345 3 жыл бұрын

Good info. Thank you!

@N3FF42 10 жыл бұрын

I have some ammo, head stamp labeled PS with 49 & 48 and what appears to be the Star of David. They came in card board boxes of 10, with 8mm Mauser 174 GR soft nose bullets. I got them for free and they there appears to be some corrosion on some around the primer and some where the bullet meets the casing. If I pick through the cleaner ones would these be ok to shoot?

@joelopezjl28 8 жыл бұрын

I managed to score some ammo at a gunshow most of it is FN but it has a black sealant and when I took the cartridge apart it seems to have a steel core does that mean it is AP? Cannot find any info on it

@amym828 5 жыл бұрын

Very quite informative. Though, I think I will just stick to rolling my own with modern components

@blueduck9409 2 жыл бұрын

The military surplus is good for pulling apart and reusing the projectile and powder. You are also left with a primed case, which you can load what ever you want into it.

@charlessedlacek5754 Жыл бұрын

Good information on this video.

@historyguard-ww2 6 жыл бұрын

HI ! I found a round of WW2 (cartridge) that looks ... very "similar" to a 7.92x57 mm Mauser, but I'm not 100% sure ... ;- (... the case is quite rusty/corroded (steel / iron ...?) and the bullet is made of brass (;-/...) . The only thing I could do was to take some measures of the round . Can you help me to identify it ? Thank you .

@TheTriptamineDream 6 жыл бұрын

Anyone want to tell me more about the "shake" test? what's it mean when you cannot feel/hear powder shaking around?

@thustra07 9 жыл бұрын

I have some Ecuadoran, it does misfire. It's been at about 2%, I bought a 22 pound Wolfe firing pin spring to persuade them. It did not help. Recoil is twice as much as the Yugoslav loadings.

@michaelfuller2200 9 жыл бұрын

I have some FN 49 rounds with red and green sealer on them, are they good to shoot in my Hakim?

@richardvinciguerra5613 9 жыл бұрын

Any lacqured steel case will not chamber in my m98k , m48 , or m24 .Can you explain . Must use Priv 196 gr.

@natecaraway2000 9 жыл бұрын

I was given the chance to get a Mauser a while back for an extremely low price and at the time I turned it down and I wish I hadn't :(

@DevinAlden 3 жыл бұрын

I bought 5 15 round boxes on stripper clip of yugo m49. Finally got around to shooting it first round just click. Recocked it two more times nothing. Second round same thing. I was using my k kale Turkish Mauser which shoots ppu very well.. So I didn't even try the rest. I think I'm gonna pull the bullets and reload them into some ppu brass I have laying around. I also have two boxes of m75 sniper ammo and was thinking about shooting some of that but with it being hard to find idk

@elliotmann9787 9 ай бұрын

Since I have a lot of 8mm ammo and a Hakim, this is a good video to watch. I don't want to destroy my Hakim.

@josephhempfling2309 Жыл бұрын

Great video by someone in the know for a change and being relatively new to the Mauser 8mm family would appreciate it if you listed the contact info on some of the 8mm dealers mentioned. THANKS

@DocMitchell69 10 жыл бұрын

I've been having some hang fires and whatnot in some of the surplus for my No. 4 Mk. 1 Enfield. What spring from Wolff should I get to help prevent these?

@hottrodscars 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting all the info! What is up with those early 8 mm that were smaller diameter cartridges?

@nathanieljones7981 2 жыл бұрын

The Round nose vs Spitzer. And conversions...

@HarborLockRoad 8 ай бұрын

.318 vs . 323 bore. The round nosed pre 1905 ammo was for a smaller bore diameter on the 1888 to 1905 made German rifles, the bore was increased when the pointed spitzer bullets were introduced about 1905. The controversy with the gewehr 1888s are attributable to this. If it still has the original german barrel , it has the . 318 bore for round nosed ammo. But, most if not all the turked ones, especially the 88/05/35 have 1930s czech barrels that are unquestionably safe, and most of the 88/05s too. You can tell the difference by the barrel stampings, all the imperial markings are absent on the czech replacement barrel, and under the chamber is marked clearly ".321" ( yes . 323 bore, just brand new at the time, so tighter to allow for eventually wearing) never use spitzer in an original untouched gewehr 1888, be wary of the 88/05, and dont worry about an 88/05/35. And, for gods sake do not shoot a hanyang gewehr 1888/04 copy from china! Absolutely none of them were safe by western standards, and all had the . 318 bore for the round nosed ammo as thats all they ever used in china. The metallurgy is unacceptable, and they were used until completely worn out ... I have a wall hanger, and the bore is completely gone, even the chamber is loose as a goose! And be wary if youre lucky enough to get a pre ww1 gewehr 1898, as those had the . 318 bore made for the round nosed ammo before the introduction of the spitzer . 323 rounds. Hope this helps

@markgreeley8572 9 жыл бұрын

I have some 7,92mmx57, marked PS 48 10, steel core, copper jacketed, lead tipped ammo. Can you possibly tell me where this ammo came from?

@saintmichaelarchangel3279 10 жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice. I am sure I have some tics myself that are more noticeable - Lol! Thanks for the interesting and helpful info!

@brandonbentley8532 5 жыл бұрын

If you get heavily tarnished rounds i use brasso metal polish and they clean right up. Polished rounds load like a dream.

@brisbaneae86 10 жыл бұрын

"short video this wont take very long" ... half an hour later..

@joshuaculick7767 2 жыл бұрын

So I just got a m48a and I need a go to ammo right now with ap capability. What do you suggest ?

@EdwardTHC 11 жыл бұрын

I have a yugo m24/47 8mm mauser and was really wanting to find any info on where to find: dies, bullets, or anything having to do with handloading/reloading. thank you for the information, i have yugo ammo and really needed this info. any help with reloading would be very appreciated.

@laurthermes4934 11 жыл бұрын

Very informative.

@kurtovesen2975 6 ай бұрын

nice and informative video, also have a lot of 8 mm ammo .the germans left a lott here in norway.im no looking fore a new mauser 98 k.

@jonathanagler9244 10 жыл бұрын

Ii have a 8mm M53 Yugo. I have put a lot of Romanian 1970's ammo through with no problems. what are you thought about Turkish and Iranian ammo though i usually shoot 50 to 100 rounds per belt.

@trauko1388 10 жыл бұрын

The army used (Ecuador) K98Ks made in Checoslovaquia, never had an issue with the ammo in training but I did hear a guy mention a round not going off at the first try, that was out of several hundred rounds.

@GamingCrusader222 2 жыл бұрын

I am looking at a 8x55 Mauser bolt action rifle and was wondering if you would recommend Turkish ammo? Heard mixed things on it. Also, what websites would you recommend to get such ammo from?

@taiming71 9 жыл бұрын

great video

@hallsam38 11 жыл бұрын

I have 2 rounds i would like some info on. based on this video 1 is an ap round dated 53 and the other is 79 with the nickle projectile. both look to have brass cased. they are surplus ammo i bought at the gun show.

@karlheinzvansteen5748 8 жыл бұрын

i have some surplus 8 mm ammo but it has only E and K on the primer, but no dates at all and no color scheme....any idea of the manufacturer?

@barryfairwood2174 4 жыл бұрын

Greek made in 1939 or 1940

@eltenda 10 жыл бұрын

really interesting video

@shaunpatrickcooper 9 жыл бұрын

could only take about 4 min of the lip smacking

@chrispotter2948 6 жыл бұрын

Would you consider any 8mm brass surplus cases suitable for reloading? Specifically the Turkish?

@blueduck9409 2 жыл бұрын

The bulk of the European brass will be difficult to reload. They use 2 flash holes instead of one, and tye primer is different. In that brass there is an "anvil" inside the primer pocket and that would have to be drilled out, or down far enuff to fit modern primers in. ... if the brass is good, and you dont mind a ton of extra work, then some of it could be reloaded. I personally save that Euro brass for a time when i have no other choice. Pravi Partisan and Sellier & Bellot is reloadable.

@patrickmcclary8863 4 жыл бұрын

Got a yugo m48 ..got a couple hundred rounds with it...says litoc..1944 ..7.9 /fs ...any info? Thanks

@rabidkitten01 11 жыл бұрын

Great video; very informative. Have your heard/know anything about 1950's Iranian Surplus? That's all I can find as of right now for a decent price.

@TheVexula 11 жыл бұрын

Does the red primer = ap round relate to other calibers as well?

@brandonbentley8532 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, other then the smacking(which I would have been slapped for when I was a kid), it's actually a very informative video. He did not mention corrosive or non-corrosive much tho.

@ilmagnifico82 4 жыл бұрын

I have surplus 8mm mauser ammo what is at 9:35 , and unfortunately those ammo is a piece of cr.p. The primer is inserted a bit deeper than normally have to be, and my rifle misfire about this.

@dearmanville 11 жыл бұрын

Have you ever worked up a handload for 8mm for the Hakim Rifle. I have the dies, some brass and a box of bullets, but have never loaded for it. I have considered converting a 1949FN 8mm to 7mm with a surplus barrel to make it common with my 1895 mauser bolt action, have you ever heard of this conversion for the Hakim?

@davejones2883 11 жыл бұрын

My very favorite surplus ammo to shoot in my K98s is 1950s Yugo..... light recoil, accurate, no misfires (I installed 24 pound springs in both my rifles), cycles very easily. Turk, Portugese, Belgian and East German also very, very good. Egyptian is marginal, about 20% misfires, while 1960s Bulgarian is total crap; 25% misfires and hangfires on all the rest. Ecuadorian is good, but very, very hot; the high pressures make the action difficult to cycle.

@nathanieljones7981 2 жыл бұрын

Romanian Brass is best for me 154 grain for the 88/14 commission only and For the rest, and 196 Romanian is great too. Romanian stuff has always never failed me

@issstari954 5 жыл бұрын

I came across some ethopian ammo would it be safe in an old mauser

@2147B 3 жыл бұрын

I just bought a small sample size of 15 and they look absolutely horrible. 5 of the bullets look decent. Is it possible they could all fire? Or is visible evidence usually a sure fire sign at best you will get hangfire? I've never shot mil surplus... Also two of the rounds had a little play they werent seated securely in the brass.... Sorry for punctuation and my lack of knowledge spamming this

@sbk162 5 жыл бұрын

so what is the velocity on the proof ammo

@brandonbentley8532 5 жыл бұрын

A father of a freind of mine back in the 80s always shot surplus ammo. Well i was there one day he must have come across one of these proof rounds because the rifle backfired violently. He was standing and dropped the rifle. The rifle survived and his dad only suffered some facial burns.

@ctripps1224 4 жыл бұрын

Thoughts on Ethiopian 🇪🇹surplus 8mm? I hear it's a nightmare? Also 🇪🇬 Egyptian mil surplus ammo??

@thefuzzysheep3859 Жыл бұрын

I have problems getting my bolt open with the Yugo surplus, Turkish is better luck but I still have problems. What’s the cause?

@buzzlightyearlookalikeakaw3619 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I personally had run across some old military 8 mm ammo but the boxes say 7.9 mm. way back in the old days there was a transition from.313 to .323 bullet diameter . of course my rifle was a m-39 from from Yugoslavia or Georgia marked 8x58, and I take that to mean post ww11 production. I have fired a number of times goes bang ok, no misfires , , just not super accurate. and bout what year did they change bullet diameters.??? PLUS there were some bullet design changes regarding brass bullets instead of cupernickle or guilding metal .that made a big difference in usable range back around WW1. . like from 800 to 1200 yards.especially in long range machine gun fire.I think same thing for accurate rifle fire. What do you think ???

@toomanyaccounts 8 жыл бұрын

8mm mauser is the US designation of the round. 7.92×57mm Mauser is the actual German name. look on wikipedia

@KurtOnoIR 6 жыл бұрын

Buzz Lightyear Lookalike// AKA Woodie the occaisional male chauvinist pig they changed diameter in 1905 so I guess that's not the accuracy problem. some ammo is not boat tail, like the Turkish is not. I know the ppu is. if that doesn't help I'd check the condition of the bore.