The 8mm verses other rounds for a bolt action. Mauser questions.

[El Mariachi]

My 1949!Husqy has nine notches cut into the stock on the left side, below the reciever. The six smaller ones are for dead deer, the three larger ones are for dead elk. At least that's what two much older Swedish guys told me when they saw the pics. Supposedly it's an old custom in the Scandanavian countries to mark your kills like that....

 

[Cosmoline]

what the biggest game that can be takin down relatively well by a 8mm?

With the proper bullet and load, anything this side of the big African game. It's in the .30'06 class.

 

[El Mariachi]

I'm not a hunter, Cosmo, but from what I saw (felt) at our range last week, when I ran a dozen mid 1950's Yugo 196 grain 8's down my Husqy, then picked up my friends military thing that fires 30-06, well, I'm pretty certain that the 'punch' difference was not that much. And I got the bruises to prove it.....

 

[Cosmoline]

Well it has a bad rep for hunting among some folks but I think that's because of the very low .30-30 level loads SAAMI allows domestic makers to sell. It's not even worth buying US made 8x57JS. The good news is there's a lot of imported stuff of good to excellent quality. Norma has some fantastic hunting loads good for moose.

 

[vellocet]

My 24/47 yugo is the best-crafted mauser I own. The same rifle made today would cost a grand. Too bad, ammo was cheap a couple of years ago. Even the yugo crap is gone now. Depending on the size of the receiver, they're the best rifles ever made. You know that because they were they were the most copied. If you want to kill animals, get something more modern.

 

[El Mariachi]

Vellocet, Ammo Brothers in California has a metric s-ton of mid '50's Yugo 8x57 with 196 grain bullets. Full power (and corrosive), but cleaning out a Mauser after shooting is a piece of cake. I only buy the 15 round boxes (for $5.95 each) but they have LOTS of bulk cans of 800-900+ for even cheaper-per-round......


http://www.ammobros.com/

 

[crossbow37]

Sport Stock for 8MM

I have a Czech Bruno VZ24 8MM. I want to put a sport stock on it. Where do I go to get this item?

 

[KrankyKraut]

For Mauser replacement stocks:
https://www.boydsgunstocks.com/SearchResults.asp?searching=Y&sort=9&search=military&show=12&page=3

 

[RentaCop]

Like someone else said, right along with the '06. Well Woodleigh makes a 250 grain in 8mm.

 

[bobnob]

The 195g Hornady Interlock at about 2650 fps would be very unhealthy medicine on the biggest deer and pigs, what an awesome round.

The 200g Accubond around the same speed - well it would be the business on most things!

 

[MachIVshooter]

.30-06 (7.62x63mm) has a little more case capacity than 8x57mm and can push just a touch faster, but for all intents and purposes, the two are equal.

Years ago, a great many 8mm model 98's were rebarreled because there was very little if any 8mm Mauser ammo or reloading components available in the U.S..

Not to mention, they used to be a dime a dozen in every hardware and drug store.
So a lot of them got re-barreled & sporterized just because many of us could afford to build a different caliber rifle much cheaper then we could buy a new Model 70 Winchester

Therein lies the origin of the 8mm-06. Tons of cheap 8mm Mausers, very little 8x57mm brass in the US at that time. Simple solution? Punch the chamber out for the longer '06 case. No other changes necessary.

That said, if I were going to make a nice sporter, I'd start with an M93 Spanish 7x57. I like small ring mausers, and 119 years later, the 7x57 is still one of the best balanced cartridges extant.

I did just buy an 8mm, but it's in a different league from the old IS round.

 

[Mudcat Stew]

Wrong about the gunshow this weekend.

Come to find out the gunshow is next month, not this weekend. There are only 4 98k's I have seen in the area gun shops. Only one looked to be in passable condition, but the bore was shot out.

Found three Enfield's that had been butchered up. Shameful actually.

As a temporary fix for my fever for a Mauser. I did wind up picking up a Nagant that was in great shape for $130 and just got back from shooting it.

I was getting a six inch group from five shots, freestanding at a hundred yards... all in the area of the bullseye.

I used a forked sapling as a standing front rest and got the next five in a 4 inch group, with two about a half inch of the bull.

I don't plan on doing much in the way of moding the Nagant... It's not a pretty piece of equipment. But I may start a thread about the rifle.

Hopefully I'll come across a 98k in decent shape when the gun show comes two town.