November 26, 2008, 04:10 PM | #1 |
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Any 8mm shooters here?
8X57 s such an old war horse that everyone must have at least one.
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November 26, 2008, 07:21 PM | #2 |
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Yea I have a couple myself and the both are great shooters.
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November 26, 2008, 08:45 PM | #3 |
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Couple of what?
...MJ...
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November 27, 2008, 12:09 AM | #4 |
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Nice Hakim, I Have One Too, I'll Have To Post Some Pictures!!!
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November 27, 2008, 01:11 AM | #5 |
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Please do.
The 7.92X57 needs more press.
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. .................................................................. |
November 27, 2008, 08:08 PM | #6 |
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I just bought an FN 49 .. but am selling my Hakim t pay for it ..
I'll get a picture of the FN tomorrow ! Last edited by hayes1966; November 27, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason: Added pictures |
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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? |
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November 27, 2008, 08:33 PM | #8 |
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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.
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November 27, 2008, 09:05 PM | #9 |
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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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November 27, 2008, 11:42 PM | #10 |
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Tamara .. the round used to be cheap but lately it has gone through the roof !!
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November 28, 2008, 12:14 AM | #11 |
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I'm selling some 8mm ammo in TFL's Buy, Sell, Trade sub-forum.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=321445 |
November 30, 2008, 11:19 AM | #12 |
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I would take that but shipping would kill it.
Is FNM 150g or 190g?
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November 30, 2008, 07:03 PM | #13 |
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8mm and baby 8mm
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December 1, 2008, 04:52 AM | #14 |
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M48 Yugo bolt action rifle, possibly my favorite rifle of all time.
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December 5, 2008, 03:57 AM | #15 |
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8 x 57 I?
1904 Steyr Irish Mannlicher 1915 GEW 88 or 8x 57 IS? 98/29 Persian Mauser Transitional GEW 98 FN 49 Hakim Last edited by Calfed; December 5, 2008 at 12:14 PM. |
December 5, 2008, 12:53 PM | #16 |
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Now we are talkin some nice 8mm rifles.
Thanks for sharing. This is a 44 byf vet rifle.
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... |
December 5, 2008, 06:45 PM | #17 |
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My old favorite, it's taken out many a deer.
My daughter started hunting at 14 with a 8mm Turkish Mauser, she's now 22 still won't use anything else. |
December 5, 2008, 09:21 PM | #18 |
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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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My little 8MM, gotta love it! |
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Last edited by claymore1500; December 5, 2008 at 10:22 PM. Reason: Edit to add: I was shooting as fast as I could pull the trigger, those things do hammer you. |
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December 5, 2008, 11:07 PM | #21 |
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I know what your saying. I can't get more than three out of five
on target with an M14E2 rapid fire @750 rpm with no buffer system it was a task to hit things past 200 yards. The buffer on the '60 at least let it float in your arms. I fired a '60 in a fine misting/rain one time and I could see the ball rounds tracing in a funnel like cone in the wet air while the tracers tracked another path. I put the target in the cented my eye had seen around the cone and the return fire stopped. The tracers went high left or some place else, it's been a long time. 40 years I think. Thats a long time, or not.
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December 6, 2008, 09:40 AM | #22 |
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I quit shooting the 98 carbine type rifles as the ammo I had was the heavy ball stuff and the little cup buttplates etc. just beat me up too much. Gettin old you know. Still wish I had saved one of the vet bringbacks but I wasn't gonna be shootin them so passed them on.
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December 6, 2008, 09:36 PM | #23 |
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Favorite 8x57 shooter
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This is my favorite 8x57 shooter. Kind of a "faux sniper" that I put together myself. Leupold two piece mounts with extra high rings and a Weaver K4-1 steel scope. Timney trigger. I heated and bent the bolt down to clear the scope and glass bedded the action. She will shoot 200 grain Match Kings very well. I've also shot some deer with this rifle. The rifle itself came to me as a Russian capture. I cleaned up the stock on it and put some oil on it. dxr |
December 6, 2008, 10:09 PM | #24 |
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This is my favorite RC Mauser. Didn't realize that there were any banner RC's at the time that I got it.
It is a total mixmaster, as befits an RC, but the bore is good. |
December 7, 2008, 11:07 AM | #25 |
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Nice pictures.
Thanks for posting.
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