What's in it?
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TheSwampFox
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I can only think of one way to know for sure. 
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11B3XCIB
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Is that not 7.92 x 57 Mauser ammo? The top left clearly has a 7 92 on it.
Avtomat-Acolyte
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TheSwampFox said:I can only think of one way to know for sure.
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11B3XCIB said:
That's precisely what it is. 8mm Mauser. I want it.
Tigerstripe
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looks to me like that could be a 6 as much as a 9.
762 probably x 54 if its a 6.
762 probably x 54 if its a 6.
Dave29461
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Looks like 50's vintage Romanian surplus. Has anyone seen any other surplus in 380 rd cans besides Romanian? :?:
Definitely a 9 when you blow it up.
Definitely a 9 when you blow it up.
Avtomat-Acolyte
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jgodfrey said:Bought this with some reloading stuff this morning. The previous owner tried to convince me it was a block of lead and wouldn't believe me when I told him it was ammo. Can anyone tell me what caliber it is?
Thanks!
You have 380 rounds of Romanian 8mm Mauser manufactured in 1956. After doing a bit of reading on the way they manufactured that ammunition in the 1950's I'm going to have to rescind my "I want it!" declaration. I have familiarity with their 70's production ammo and it is flawless. Their 50's production suffered from all sorts of QA/QC problems (split cases, deep/hard primers). I read where some guys replaced the springs on their firing pins with Wolf springs and it corrected the issue with the primers but that's not something I'd like to try.
edited to change national origin
Avtomat-Acolyte
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I suggest you open it up and examine the cartridge boxes inside and even go through several of the boxes to inspect the condition of the ammunition. You do a good bit of business on the various gun forums and don't want to trade or sell someone ammunition that has a 20-40% failure rate and have them blast your reputation over an accident. Unless you decide to mark it "as is; condition unknown" and leave the opening to the buyer.
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i bought it,from my reading the 50's rommy stuff was much better than there 70's stuff
i opened it up looks great,steel core bullets though not crazy about that but oh well
i'll let you guys know how it shoots soon
i opened it up looks great,steel core bullets though not crazy about that but oh well
i'll let you guys know how it shoots soon
Midnight Raver
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jgodfrey said:
Now THAT would have been a guaranteed Darwin Award nomination, if not an outright winner!!! :shock:
rotarymike
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I've bought some of this stuff at gun shows and had closer to an 80% failure rate between duds and hangfires. Pulled it all down for the bullets. Powder was mostly good, although without load data I sprinkled it all on the garden. Primers were mostly so dead they wouldn't even smoke.
The 70s vintage stuff is much better.
IMHO, pull it down for the projectiles, sell those (196g FMJ), burn/scatter the powder, and recycle the brass (berdan primers). Or sell the whole thing to a collector not interested in firing them.
The 70s vintage stuff is much better.
IMHO, pull it down for the projectiles, sell those (196g FMJ), burn/scatter the powder, and recycle the brass (berdan primers). Or sell the whole thing to a collector not interested in firing them.
