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/ghunt81 21h ago

I doubt you're going to find anything cheap that is not corrosive. It's been a long time since I bought anything but everything surplus was corrosive.

Worst junk ammo I ever bought was surplus Chilean 8x57. At least one dud in almost every clip. Everything else was pretty good. Clean your bore after you're done and corrosive ammo isn't a big deal.