@@MikeB128 did you ever get some of these on steel? I’ve got four 1/2” thick AR500 Plates coming tomorrow and will be putting some of these down range at them on Wednesday.
I really appreciate your going in to depth on so much Mauser-related content. Clears up a lot of obscure questions that Google rarely or never answers. 8mm Mauser doesn't get as much love as it deserves these days, in my humble opinion.
Excellent video Mike! All that work you do is very appreciated by all of us! I love seeing internal components of bullets, and how they were constructed 80 years ago! Thanks again! Excellent video.
Great vid Mike, some insight: I've shot a few hundred of the lacquered steel cased 8mm from 43 and 44 and inside most of the cases was rust. Ive had many complete case failures resulting in cracks going the length of the whole case. But oddly enough when shooting you don't notice anything different. No severe gas leaks or anything. It's only obvious when you look at the cases afterwards. Not sure how safe that is, but thats my experience with this stuff (and also the same type of lacquered East German 8mm from the 50's)
Thanks for the info mike, I just grabbed a few boxes of this stuff. I might have to hunt down some more. I have some 1938 brass cased stuff on matching stripper clips I've been tempted to shoot but idk lol thanks again for all the info
I've had great success reloading these on more recently made casings, now they're sitting properly stored and sealed for another 80+ years with the other surplus lol
I got about 400 rounds and one box was an older version. The tip was exposed steel but it was a lot more rusty and corroded then the regular ones. The older box says “Ptr Smk” rather than the “15 patronen smk”
Gotta consider that Germany was cranking this stuff out as fast as possible and likely not loading anything in perfect atmospheric conditions. Germany is extremely humid most times of the year and most components may had been exposed to moisture in the air before being loaded
I just picked up 60 rounds of this. I though AP for 95 cpr was too good to pass up. Although all of mine came as brass case. My end plan is to hand them off to a buddy to replace the powder
Those 4 bullets worth of powder burned so slow!! So how come in the actual casing when you shoot the gun and the powder ignites (BOOM) it burns so much faster??
Bought a few boxes of these today 👍🇺🇸 thx for the video, these are nice to have think imma get a few more, ones they have are brass so hopefully they’re safe gonna test a few lol 😂
I know where you got that ammo from too bad I can't get any and none of that type of ammo can never be shipped at my state. Also what tool is that to take the bullet out ? I might get one of those
You failed to answer a very important question... What's actually in the bullet? I'll apologize if I missed it, because I skipped through it all quite fast, but I didn't see you cut open a bullet. SmK or Spitzgeschoss mit Kern means it's a pointy bullet with a core. Core of what? EDIT: gave it some more time and you said "steel core bullet", I guess that's my question answered, thank you!
@@MikeB128 please do, I need them to complete a mauser battle loadouts for my display. I ran across some Turkish mauser munitions with the original clips as well if your interested
I would really like to buy at least one clip with ammunition do you think that's possible I'm a fellow collector I've lost everything I've had and I mean everything just went through a bad breakup after 7 years so what she didn't destroy throw out give away there's nothing left so if I could buy a clip off you that would really be cool
You should see if the firing spring is lighter weight. Many milsurp rounds have tougher primers so a lighter spring may not consistently set them off. Some modern Mauser rifles do not come with heavy recoil springs such as mine so I had to upgrade to a heavier firing spring. If you have a Mauser rifle, it should be safe to fire though. Remember, most bolt actions are Mauser clones.
@@matscarlsson498 Yeah, because some Mil-Surplus ammunition sometimes can explode because (some) modern civilians firearms often can't handle such extreme hot rounds(rounds pressure exceed the weapons maximum limit)
