Elbert P . Suggins
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My grandson has been shooting my dads pre-war Model 70 30-06 of 1940 vintage for a couple of years now. But yesterday got a Mauser 8mm chambered and fired by accident because some loose rounds were picked up in a drawer which happened to have a couple of Mauser rounds in their also. An out of the pocket and into the drawer thing. He had been target shooting at a 100 yards with a mounted Leopold scope on a table with lead sled. Now the Winchester is more accurate in the sense that 3 out of 5 rounds almost touch each other whereas before, the grouping was farther apart. What did that 8mm do, clean the barrel out so it is more accurate or what? It didn't seem to damage the barrel. Brings new meaning to case form firing!