8mm Mauser recommendations

BRPORSCHE · 02-02-2010, 08:59 AM

Need a place where I can find somewhat cheap/non corrosive ammo in 8mm mauser.

Any ideas? It can be online I don't care. Bought some remington 8mm mauser last night. 20 for $33. Feels like I just got raped after a sunday full of shotgun shooting for the same price!

Thanks guys.

Embraer · Embraer's Garage

8mm Yugo FMJ ball ammo. 15 round box

corrosive, but just use ammonia to clean the gun.

legion · 02-02-2010, 09:02 AM

8mm is a somewhat obscure caliber. The only way to keep it somewhat cheap is to reload it yourself.

Westy · 02-02-2010, 09:06 AM

Check out amoman.com and midwayusa.com . Those are the only 2 places I buy from anymore. One's more expensive, the other has free shipping. It all comes out in the wash.

Embraer · Embraer's Garage

my buddy is a german gun guru.....he goes through a ton of 8mm. keep your eye on J&G....a lot of times, they sell bandoliers of the stuff dirt cheap. $4.65 for 15 rounds isn't too bad.

That's why I went with the Mosin Nagant....similar power but you can get a spam can of 440 rounds for around $80 at the local gun store

BRPORSCHE · 02-02-2010, 09:12 AM

Yeah I am not totally against corrosive as I clean the gun like a crazy man after I shoot. So ammonia, eh? I'll have to google that. For the shotguns all I have been using is some nitro solvent and wd-40.

targa911S · 02-02-2010, 11:29 AM

I'll look in the shop. I think I may have some. I'll send it to ya if ya want it. I also have a turkish mauser action complete but no barrel. it's been blasted but it's all there if anybody wants it. Not sure if it will have to go to an FFL though.

Shuie · 02-02-2010, 12:13 PM

Forgot about non-corrosive 8mm ammo. Look up the ammonia thing.

legion · 02-02-2010, 12:28 PM

Won't ammonia make steel brittle/prone to cracking over time?

BRPORSCHE · 02-02-2010, 12:30 PM

Targa, that would be awesome! I am going to a local gun show this weekend to see if I can score anything.

I am reading into the ammonia, and if legion says is true I don't know if I will go that route. I plan on holding onto this gun until I die.

Jeff Higgins · 02-02-2010, 12:31 PM

Plain water works as well as anything else for dissolving corrosive primer residue. Clean with water, clean with the solvent of your choice, and you are done. Never a big deal.

emcon5 · emcon5's Garage

Windex is all you need. Mostly water with a little ammonia in it. I run a few patches soaked with Windex through the rifle at the range, folowed by some dry patches then an oiled patch. I also wipe down the bolt with Windex, then dry and oil. Takes about 2 minutes.

The 1950's Yugo surplus is good, but tends to have hard primers. Some take a second hit to set off. This can be fixed with a stronger mainspring available from Midway for about $5.

Century had some 1940's surplus for sale cheap a while back, they may still have some, but in my rifle it didn't shoot as well as the Yugo.

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

Plain water works as well as anything else for dissolving corrosive primer residue. Clean with water, clean with the solvent of your choice, and you are done. Never a big deal.

i heard somewheres while playing with british .303 enfields that they used to pull the bolt and run BOILING HOT WATER down barrel and swab it clean.

any truth to this when using corrosive ammo?

what about mitchellsmausers.com i could of sworn they had ammo for sale.

targa911S · 02-02-2010, 04:42 PM

Think black powder. It's corrosive. Soap and water clean up.

emcon5 · emcon5's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

i heard somewheres while playing with british .303 enfields that they used to pull the bolt and run BOILING HOT WATER down barrel and swab it clean.

any truth to this when using corrosive ammo?

Probably. All you need to break down the salts is water, Windex is a good alternative because it is mostly water, but the ammonia in it will work as a copper solvent (a mild one, there isn't that much ammonia in there compared to a real no-BS copper solvent like Sweets 7.62).

There is some good info here:

Collecting and Shooting the Military Surplus Rifle - Cleaning After Shooting Corrosive Ammunition

In fact, the whole Collecting and Shooting the Military Surplus Rifle (2006) - Surplusrifle.com site is good, and an easy way to kill a few hours if you are not careful.

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what about mitchellsmausers.com i could of sworn they had ammo for sale.

Yeah, Mitchell's sells Ammo, most likely under contract with either Seller and Belot or Privi Partisan. The only difference is the Mitchel's head stamp on the brass, and it costs more.

Mitchell's Mausers is pretty much the Motermiester of the K98. Never bought from them, but there are lots of allegations of business practices that can best be described as shady, and their advertising is misleading. Once Mitchell's gets a hold of a rifle, there is really no collector value left.

Look at it this way. Take a 1973 911S, then replace the engine with a 3.0, add some wide fiberglass flares and impact bumpers. Sure it is technically still an early S, but much of the collector value is gone. And if you think the Early 911 guys can be a little picky when it comes to originality, you should see the Mauser collectors.

BRPORSCHE · 02-02-2010, 06:17 PM

leland that is a great price! They also look much cleaner then j and g and ammoman. Let me see what I can find on Saturday at the show. Usually I see quite a few ammo 'spam cans' so maybe I'll get lucky.

krystar · 02-02-2010, 07:07 PM

CTD $0.24/rnd AMM-857 - Ammo 8mm Mauser Romanian 150 Grain FMJ, 340 Rounds Steel Core FMJ, Lacquer Steel Case, Berdan Primed.

u really have to buy in bulk to get cheap prices. full cans and cases.

http://gun-deals.com/ammo.php?caliber=8mm

Jeff Higgins · 02-02-2010, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

i heard somewheres while playing with british .303 enfields that they used to pull the bolt and run BOILING HOT WATER down barrel and swab it clean.

any truth to this when using corrosive ammo?

what about mitchellsmausers.com i could of sworn they had ammo for sale.

Yup, boiling water, but only so it would dry real fast. Doesn't clean any better. An yup, Mitchell's has ammo.

I'm always amused by folks' reluctance to use plain water. Everyone seems to think it has to have something in it, but it just doesn't. Windex, for example, doesn't have enough ammonia to make a bit of difference.

Ammonia is only used as a copper solvent anyway. It doesn't do squat to clean up mercuric (corrosive) primer residue or powder fouling, black or smokeless. Early cupro-nickel jackets were very soft and fouled like hell. The old ammonia based cleaners were meant to break that down, not powder fouling. They cleaned with water (powder and primer fouling) then ammonia (jacket fouling) and finally oiled it all up to prevent rust. It takes a very concentrated ammonia based cleaner to even begin to do the job, though. Check out something like Sweets 7,62 Copper Solvent someday - the ammonia smell will knock your hat off.

Today, plain water and something like Hoppe's #9 is all you need to shoot corrosively primed ammo (or black powder ammo) to your little heart's content.

Arizona_928 · 02-02-2010, 07:27 PM

I missed out on aims deal on the 8mm. They offered 1 penny shipping on every spam can.

I'm probably get acouple crates from cheaper than dirt if shipping ain't too high, if not a trip to J&G.

tabs · 02-02-2010, 07:50 PM

Since WHEN is 8MM an obscure cartridge...there were Millions of em made just for the German Military from 1898 to the end of WW2. That is not even counting all the foreign contracts that Mauser had for their most famous rifle...Shame on U Legion..