Just for the fun of it, I bought a box of 44 rounds of 8mm mauser ammo, at last weekend's Friendship gun show.
I thought I would share photos with the cartridge collectors that read this forum.
I tried three rounds in a K98k, and one had a bad primer. The other two had a much louder report than I expected for this stuff.
I pulled the bad round apart, since I wanted to see what the bullet and charge were like. The bullet appears in the first photo. The powder was a substantial load of a flake powder, probably weighed around 20 grains.
The headstamp looks Arabic, and I'm thinking maybe Syrian or Persian.
I thought I would share photos with the cartridge collectors that read this forum.
I tried three rounds in a K98k, and one had a bad primer. The other two had a much louder report than I expected for this stuff.
I pulled the bad round apart, since I wanted to see what the bullet and charge were like. The bullet appears in the first photo. The powder was a substantial load of a flake powder, probably weighed around 20 grains.
The headstamp looks Arabic, and I'm thinking maybe Syrian or Persian.