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Originally Posted by Blitzzz
I'm starting a reloading Test/project.
It goes like this: Years ago my wife baught 1600 rounds of WWII german 8mm ammo. It is manufactured in 1936 198gr Mauser ammo.
I fired some and liked it. I fired it in my 1941 Obendorff K-98. A real beauty.
The primers are corrosive so I did the cleaning several times. The gun is niot the issue here. The ammo is. I broke down a 15 round box of them today. I collected the powder and weighed each charge, then weighed the bullets.
Powder was 42.9 grs to 43.8 grs and the bullets were 197.8 to 198.6
Not a bad batch for milproduction.
I am going to deprime the brass and reprime with new primers. remeasure each charge of powder at 43.5 grs of the original powder ( it's a really fine flake).
I will chrony these 15 and then decide if I am going to reload all 1600 rounds this way or change powders to an IMR 4064 or RL-15.
Any comments welcome. Dave
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Good luck depriming the ammo.
1936 German ammo should be Berdan primed, which will be an adventure to deprime.
TR
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