Correct Ammo for 8MM Mauser
I own an 1942 German 8mm Mauser. What is the correct ammo for this rifle? I have some Sellier & Bellot 8X57JS will this work? On the box it says "Only for barrels with S - caliber bore 7,89mm, groove 8,20mm". Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ken
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Ken, you can use that ammo. You have the standard .323 bore in your Mauser. Some made prior to 1900 had a .318 bore (most were altered to the new size). Most American loads will work in the .318 or .323 bore, although a bid undersized for the .323. I think Norma is the only one (imported here) that actually loads a .323 bullet. You won't get into any trouble shooting most any available 8m/m Mauser except 8X57 RIMMED! I am more concerned if your weapon is unmessed with military. If so, it may have a little more value than you realize. Do a little homework and blow a couple of bucks on some gun books. Nobody ever went wrong learning. Good luck 0 -
I'm not sure what you mean unmessed with. My Dad brought it home in 1945 after WWll. Sat around most of the time till he gave it to me recently. The original stock was Sporterized in about 1950. 0 -
No problem. By unmessed with, I mean not sporterized. I had a fellow come in to my shop last year with a beautiful 44 byf (code for Mauserwerk) that he wanted drilled and tapped for a scope. I offered to trade him a Remington 7400 for it. I remarked that if the wood hadn't been messed with (cut), I would have thrown in a Redfield scope. He told me that he had just recently done that??!!!!!. An untouched WWII German K98k is a fairly (now) expensive item. People don't realize that they can quickly make a $100 gun out of a $700 gun with just a saw or file. Having been sporterized in the 50's isn't so bad, they had thousands of them back then, kinda like we have SKS's or Mosin-Nagants now. In fifty years that may have changed. Sorry to be so long winded, got carried away. For books: Mauser Bolt Rifles (Olsen), Backbone of the Wehrmacht (Law) and German Rifles and Machine Guns (Dieter) are about the standards in my library. 0
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