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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE
I am always down for a range day. What distance will you be shooting?
here is my 700 CDL in 8x57 Mauser
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Do you reload? If not, wanna sell your brass?
Also, if not, you should. Commercial offerings in 8mm Mauser suck in this country, in case some dullard puts one in a Gewehr 88 rifle with a .318 bore.
If you look on Privi Partisan's web site, they list 2 different calibers, "8 x 57 IS" which is the CIP designation for the 8mm Mauser round, and "8mm Mauser" which is the SAMMI designation, with much lower pressure. The same bullets are ~2-300FPS slower in the "8mm Mauser" vs the "8 x 57 IS".
Privi's 175 gr "8mm Mauser" @ 2330 fps is fairly close to Remington's and Winchester's only offerings, 170 gr @ 2360fps. Federal's only option is even wimpier 170gr @ 2250 FPS.
Privi's 175 gr "8 x 57 IS" is 2540fps.
Hornady seems to be the only folks making "real" 8x57 ammo, with two options, a 195 hunting bullet and a 196 gr match, both @ 2500 FPS, which is pretty close to the original military load.
Even the pussified US loads are still enough to kill pretty much anything in the lower 48, but it irritates me.