Bought a bag of 8mm Mauser today...

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I bought a bag of 8mm Mauser Ammo (Brass Cased surplus) it it head stamped with what looks like a VO and a little squiggly line under that. As pictured below.



So any help with identification and any other info about this ammo (projectile weight, if it shoots good/reliable/consistent? ) Would be perfect, thank you!

Regards,

-Mo.
 
Yup, Egyptian from 1958. I've found it to be decently reliable and accurate. Some a little better......some a little worse.
 
It will be Berdan primed, so really the only reusable component will be the bullet, if you pull them down. And $10 for 38 8mm bullets isn't a bargain in my book. So you might as well shoot them, if they shoot (and they probably will).

I have no idea what the Egyptians loaded. Standard WWII German 8mm ball was a 196gr bullet. This is probably what it is, but short of pulling one down and weighing the bullet, I wouldn't know how to tell if it was something else.

Good luck,and if one does hangfire count to 30, slowly, before opening the action! If it doesn't go off by then, its pretty safe to figure its a dud.
 
Yep Egyptian, I've shot a lot of it thru FN 49s and 98 Mausers. It is good ammo and I never had a problem with it. I use to buy it by the case at the Samco warehouse in Miami Fl for $60 or so per 1000.
 
Not necessarily a good deal or bad Deal I guess. .26 cents a round, it's cheaper than most surplus I find (excluding Iranian which is all hangfires). I'll post a range report with it from the M24/47.
 
Unless I'm mistaken, "VO" would be the Arabic numerals for "75".

I guess I lucked out after I bought my La Coruna, I got a box of 50 pieces of new 8mm brass from Midway :)
 
I have a couple thousand rounds of this in the garage I bought for $59/1,000.
Must have been a while ago...
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Ah, the memories.
9mm surplus, from the same sources, was only slightly more, back then.
$89/1000, if memory serves.
Made reloading a waste of time.
 
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