8mm Mauser price per round?

fastcarsgofast

Looking to buy some 8mm surplus ammo from Ecuador. Does anyone have a good idea what I should be paying for it? I'm new to the 8mm game and can't find much about this ammo on the web.

rufe-snow

Not much in the way of original military surplus 8 mm, around any more. Last descent stuff I recall running into, was the Portuguese. When they got kicked out of Africa in the 70's.

If this Ecuadorian ammo is descent as far as functioning and accuracy is concerning. And if you can get it at a good price, buy as much as you can.



EDIT #1,

Scuse the senior moment. But the last 8mm military surplus on the market. As a recent poster noted, was the Turk ammo, in stripper clips. Rep for being loaded, very hot. Most likely, they were using the German type heavy bullet loads? In any case that was like 10 years ago. Haven't seen any for sale in quantity, in a long time.

beantownshootah

Lucky Gunner has recent manufacture Romanian steel case ammo for as little as $0.45/round in bulk.

That's about as cheap as I can find any right now, and probably a pretty good place to start the discussion. If you can find a better price than that on decent surplus, go for it. Don't forget about shipping.

FWIW, the Ecuadorian stuff was supposedly manufactured by FN and is high quality, though it has stiff primers and may require a stiffer firing pin spring to reliably ignite. Just Google "Ecuador 8mm ammo" and you'll find a whole bunch of range reports and commentary.


quote:Found some corrosive berdan on the auction side at 26 cents plus shipping.

http://www.GunBroker.com/item/660672191
Unless I'm missing something here, $210 for 500 rounds is $0.42/round.

TRAP55

Stay away from this new Romanian production 8mm! Some is so far out of spec, that it won't even chamber. Older Romanian milsurp is good stuff, lowest 8mm surplus chamber pressures, but it is corrosive, kinda dirty, and smells terrible when shot.
Ecuador 8mm is one of the better surplus 8mm. Most of the milsurp ammo is getting priced close to a lot of commercial reloadable ammo now, so it pays to do a little homework and compare pricing w/shipping.
https://gun.deals/category/ammo?caliber=23
http://ammoseek.com/ammo/8mm-mauser
http://www.ammospy.net/ammo/8mm-mauser
http://gun-deals.com/list/ammo/8mm+Mauser

Tflogger

Found a lot of ftf and click bang in the south American ammo.
I pulled the bullets and used them for reloads.

Mobuck

Just pay the extra for S&B or PPU and feel a little more confident that your rifle won't disintegrate in your face or that your bullets will hit somewhere close to each other.
I bought into some of the last CHEAP 8x57 mil-surp ammo close to 20 years ago. Stripper clips in bandoleers and the stuff is both accurate and HOT. I had zero corrosion problems with simply cleaning using Hoppes #9 so basically the best possible scenario.
A friend bought some questionable 8x57 based on price. He found the pressures ranged from barely pushing the bullet out the muzzle to stuck bolt, 4" to "where did that bullet go?" accuracy, and it would rust the bore between shots(literally).

Aztngundoc22

OK :

http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=693556

Thanks !!!

ammo guy

The Ecuadoran ammo is not good in my experience, many miss fires. Any surplus 8mm will run between .50-60 cents per rd.