OT: Follow up hunting rifle for nephew

Ive got some Egyptian 8mm that I shoot in my FN-49..that started rusting the test plate in a couple hours. Nasty stuff. Shoots well though

Damned short stock..bends my nose with my thumb, whenever Im careless....sigh

Gunner

Political Correctness

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

Hmm ... any ideas what the 8mm military surplus ammo from Israel in 7.98x57 would have had as primers back in the early 1960s? I've long since shot up all of the original primers, and reloaded those cases quite a few times now, so it is pretty academic by now. (And the weapon was a genuine German Mauser, not one of the clones.)

They were good cases, anyway.

But yes, the recoil certainly makes the SKS feel light by comparison. :-)

Thanks, DoN.

the vast majority of Israeli ammo was surplus German ammo for several decades. They were equipped with German Mausers until the late 1950s with some M1 Carbines (non corrosive since inception) and Garands..corrosive. They (IMI industries) IRRC used only non corrosive primers when they started making boxer primed cases.

Political Correctness

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

O.K. I somehow doubt that the Germans would produce ammo with a headstamp in Hebrew characters. :-) (It was three characters, and I can't remember what they were -- but even if I were to go down and check, I don't have those characters on my keyboard to type them anyway. :-)

Enjoy, DoN.

On 20 Mar 2007 04:39:20 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) quickly quoth:

I vaguely remember German ammo with something Jewish about it being the topic in a CSI episode on teevee. IIRC, the initials stood for one of the death camps or sumpin'.

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My nephew's shot the K98 and really likes it. Gunner do you know of an online manual so he can take it apart and clean it properly? I sent him a couple links I found but wonder if you have anything better. I sent him this link with the Swedish Mauser video

On 22 Mar 2007 04:49:29 -0700, with neither quill nor qualm, " snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com" quickly quoth:

I got his SKS/MN DVD and it's great. The $14 price tag for all the info (on 2 DVDs) there is a wonderful deal and great investment.

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Btw..this is another link you might wish to direct him towards

Gunner

"Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide"

- James Burnham

Really? Ive never seen one. Over the years Ive stayed away from tapes and such because of some bad experiences.

Perhaps Ill have to check em out again.

Got a dvd burner?

Gunner

"Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide"

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:00:25 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

Nah, you probably already know 90% of the info there.

Yabbut, that's illegal and we wouldn't want to keep fellow shooters from making very small change like that for their work, would we?

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commits suicide"

Thats probably why I was disappointed with the couple I purchased years ago.

Of course not..hence the public comment and the

Id never use pirated software...unless it was a MicroSloth product or one of those really really really overpriced cad/cam thingies and then only for my own amusment and education.

Thats my story and Im sticking to it.

Gunner

"Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide"

- James Burnham

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:33:58 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

You can see much of the included info at

Bueno.

;)

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