Any 8mm shooters here?

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MJ1

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8X57 s such an old war horse that everyone must have at least one.

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Please do.

The 7.92X57 needs more press.

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Still used in the Balcanastans and Indiastan, Anyotherstan and Africananastan in the MG3. Oh and Yugostan.

I use some 1960's Germanystan 192g LMG ammo and pull 4.6g out of the case. Whoppin big recoilastan.


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I just bought an FN 49 .. but am selling my Hakim t pay for it ..

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I'll get a picture of the FN tomorrow !
 
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I just bought an FN 49
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The Rolls Royce of battle rifles.

Doesn't get much better than that. I picked up a barreled action for $350. Got a stock and new handguards that need finished and installed. Even bought a spare barrel for it, even though the one it came with was nice and sharp looking. I couldn't help myself. They were like sixty bucks from Sarco.

I just need to bed that action. To many projects in the works right now. As though that were a bad thing.

8mm mauser is a nasty round. A hair hotter than the 30-06. That makes for a pretty awesome battle rifle if you ask me. A bit on the heavy side, but damn, those FN49's are luxurious, ain't they?:)
 
I like the round; it's plentiful, cheap, and packs a wallop. I have the FN-49, four Germans (Gew.88/05, Gew.98, Kar.98AZ, and Kar.98k), and two Chinese (Type 88 Hanyang and a Chiang Kai Shek). Oh, and a Portuguese Mauser-Vergueiro M1904/39.
 
I use the 192g bullet

Made in Germany in the mid 1960's that has 48g of a powder like 4895 in it. I pull 4.5g out so I don't break tings.

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8 x 57 I?
1904 Steyr Irish Mannlicher
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1915 GEW 88
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or 8x 57 IS?
98/29 Persian Mauser
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Transitional GEW 98
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FN 49
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Hakim
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Now we are talkin some nice 8mm rifles.

Thanks for sharing. This is a 44 byf vet rifle.

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All matching from a relative in the 1970's. No story went with it as to when he got it but I remember as kid seeing missing toes on him and he was an anti tank gunner on a 57mm. He once told me how the 57mm rounds bounced off the German tanks in the Bulge Dec. '44.

Cheers
...MJ...
 
My old favorite, it's taken out many a deer.:D
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My daughter started hunting at 14 with a 8mm Turkish Mauser, she's now 22 still won't use anything else.
 
I saw this at an auction site.

If you think of the power and recoile of the 192g service round this is amazing for it's accuracy and high rate of fire. I hauled an M60 for a few years around and could fire it standing from the shoulder, not well but I doubt I could do it with the 8mm.

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...MJ...
 
I hauled an M60 for a few years around and could fire it standing from the shoulder, not well but I doubt I could do it with the 8mm.
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I am 6'4" 240#, while at the range one time I was sitting on a fibre glass pic-nic table bench, I tried firing from the shoulder, ten rounds from the FN49 pictured above, At around the 6th round I fell off of the end of the bench, That rifle was pushing me on the slick surface and I didn't realize it.
 
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