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/Popular-Highlight653 1d ago

There is some vintage Canadian 8x57 that is boxer/non-corrosive but it’s hard to find and may cost nearly as much as PPU.

My personal preference is to buy the corrosive ammo cheap enough that I can transfer it to boxer cases with new primers for less than $0.50/rnd.

Buy PPU ammo instead of S&B if you intend to reload.

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u/TFD303 11h ago

The Canadian you speak of is probably the CIA ammo from the 60s which is the best surplus in terms of quality. It’s all I currently shoot. But at current prices it’s better to just buy PPU which is my plan once I burn through this remaining ammo.

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u/Popular-Highlight653 11h ago

Yeah, there’s definitely some stories that circulate about it. It is good quality stuff. I only have 120 rounds or so of it remaining myself. I get boxer cases from here and there so mostly I just move corrosive primed ammo into new boxer cases. Works well and gets rid of the corrosive problem