Guns of Battlefield 1: 7.92x57mm (8mm) ballistic gel test video

[chopinbloc]

https://youtu.be/tr1upBU6uEk

I've been wanting to test some older battle rifle cartridges for a while. It was more than a little serendipitous when the Battlefield 1 trailer came out the day after doing some 8mm testing. May as well jump on that bandwagon.

This test will be Romanian 150 gr 7.92x57mm (8mm Mauser) fired from a WWI German Mauser rebuilt by the Turks to M38 (WWII) specifications into a calibrated block of 10% ballistic gelatin.

Muzzle velocity was 2,676 fps.
Unsurprisingly, the projectile was not captured so penetration and retained weight are not known.

 

[390ish]

Would be great to test that loading alongside 150 grain Turk surplus and 196 grain Yugoslav.


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[chopinbloc]

I've done some other videos using the 154 gr Turkish ammo. Those should be up over the next couple weeks. I doubt I'll do another 8mm gel test, though*. These aren't likely to fragment and they definitely won't expand. The only variations we are likely to see are in how early they yaw and, if I had a 200 lb gel block, the depth of penetration.




*unless there is significant interest in it, of course.

 

[Jim K]

I don't think that even hunters fully appreciate and understand the power of those rifles. As a kid growing up in the aftermath of WWII (I was 12 in 1945), I knew a number of vets with wounds from shell or mine fragments, or from pistol caliber rounds. I never knew any who had been hit in the torso with an 8mm.

Jim