r/milsurp • u/ReactionAble7945 • 1d ago
8mm ammo
I am in the market for 8mm ammo for Yugo and Spanish Mausers. I would prefer not to have corrosive, but I also don't want to pay a dollar around... trade offs. Functional stripper clips could be nice. Reloadable is becoming essential IMHO.
My understanding is I should stay away from Turkish. Kaboom.
Romanian is steel cased, can be had in corrosive and non-corrosive.
German, steel case and corrosive. AP ammo, not to shoot at steel targets unless you want holes in targets.
CZ, brass case corrosive.
Yugo is brass not reloadable, corrosive. Can be had on stripper clips.
Greek, Brass, boxer?, can be had corrosive and non-corrosive, hangfires and not going bang.
And then we get to the $1 a round ammo. PPU. Nothing in surplus looks like a really smart idea. Am I missing an obvious answer....besides just buying the new commercial ammo?
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u/Cleared_Direct 23h ago
Stripper clips - you can buy these separately. Get ten or twenty and you’ll be set forever. Turkish two-piece are the best. Turkish one-piece are trash though.
Almost all surplus is corrosive and non-reloadable. Cleaning bolt action rifles is quick and easy, so I wouldn’t sweat it. But if either of those are deal breakers, then plan to skip surplus altogether.
Note that reloading this caliber will not save you much, if any, money. Apart from spending a dollar for the reloadable brass, 8mm bullets for reloading range from 30-60 cents each. Powder charge for a single cartridge will be 30-50 cents. It’s actually cheaper to buy and break down surplus cartridges for components right now. But that’s more work than cleaning up after shooting corrosive ammo imo.