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Mike

I have shot similar German rounds and it all went back and was pretty accurate. I guess if it was stored well it would be good. I have had some that was stored badly and the cases were questionable.
 
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Mike

I have shot similar German rounds and it all went back and was pretty accurate. I guess if it was stored well it would be good. I have had some that was stored badly and the cases were questionable.
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Yeah I kinda figured it was all based on how its stored. Hopefully this stuff has been kept dry and in a decent climate.
 
I remember getting those battle packs for something like $30 each 15 or so year ago. I wish I had bought more. I was getting them mostly to fill original ammo crates for display.
 
I was able to buy 500+ rounds of steel cased sS WW2 German ammo from a member here, loaded in 1940. It is in excellent condition and the 2 boxes I’ve shot so far performed as if loaded last year, 100% ignition. I made a young a young fellow in my local collectors’ club very happy by giving him the cases to reload. (he has a process for reloading Berdan-primed cases) I’ve read since that some powder formulations used after 1943 were acidic, leading to more of those cases rusting through from the inside. Some of the batch of ammo above were later loadings, & 40-60% of those show some rust. There are only a couple dozen suspect cartridges, I plan to pull the bullets on the sketchy ones & scrap them, as I’d rather not practice pulling broken cases out of my shooter!
 
If y'all wait a bit I will be having both brass and steel cased ammo(mixed boxes) for around the same price as the competition. Same ammo, same source.. you'll simply be getting boxes of brass & steel cased late 30s/early 40s nazi 8mm vs only steel. I'll know more once it gets in early/mid next week.

I have a website(The Mosin Crate) where due to the quantity I'm dealing with/to make my life easier I'm going to be doing 300rd lots of it but will try to do smaller lots for y'all on here as I know not everyone wants to grab 300rd.
Will update when I know more.

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It was stored well and hundreds of rounds were test fired without any major issues. There was one very slight hang fire and a couple of small case splits. I did not do the test firing myself so I plan on test firing some as well before putting mine up for sale and will record/youtube video it so we all can get a better idea.
 
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Shipping cost at that link seems high. $18 for one box of ammo. Price goes down per box with quantity. 10 boxes for $63 shipping. Is this the going rate these days for shipping?
 
Stan said:
Shipping cost at that link seems high. $18 for one box of ammo. Price goes down per box with quantity. 10 boxes for $63 shipping. Is this the going rate these days for shipping?
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No. They do that so they can be the lowest ammo price on places like ammo bot. It's a crappy way to do business.
 
ncreptile said:
If y'all wait a bit I will be having both brass and steel cased ammo(mixed boxes) for around the same price at the competition. Same ammo, same source.. you'll simply be getting boxes of brass cased late 30s/early 40s nazi 8mm.

I would post my site but want to be respectful to the forum owners and not sure if they are ok with that.

Hoping to have it up next week.
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Count me in. I'll grab some from you when you put it up.
 
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Yea put me on the list too I have some brass SMK but that's more collectable than the steel stuff. . Wonder where it all came from if that Shark place has over 1900 boxes of it.
 
It would be nice to be able to buy even just a handful of legit wartime German rounds!! I’ll be interested in buying too. :)
 
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German 8mm S.m.K. Patrone, Steel Core, Lacquered Steel Case, 300rd Battle Pack

<p>Original WWII German ammunition, perhaps the best ever produced! This is armor piercing ammunition with a hardened steel core and lacquered steel case. All we have seen in this lot have the headstamp "hlb" and date to 1943. Packed in original 15rd boxe
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I don't think we need to worry much about how this ammo was stored. The boxes would be in poor condition if storage conditions were other than nearly perfect.

My dad bought quite a bit of German brass cased P131 1934 8mm at K-Mart in about 1967. It was $1.98 for 15 rounds in the original boxes. From time to time I take a box to the range. Ignition has been 100% so far. There's been no interior case corrosion. I assume it to be corrosively primed and clean accordingly.
 
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Just got it this morning.. My truck was sagging in the rear quite a bit driving it home from the freight place.
So, here's the findings. All of it is mid 30s to 1942, I have not seen any ammo later than 1942. The majority of the ammo is brass cased but it's a small majority.(I'd say 60/40 in favor of brass over steel case). Half seems to have stripper clips, some of the clips are aluminum but a lot are the nice brass clips. There's a good mix of standard ball S.s. ammo as well as SMK armor piercing. The boxes and labels are in very nice shape with a few exceptions that are torn.

I'm doing the video today along with a range video where I will test fire a box of 4-5 different variants and will post it here tomorrow.

I also have a couple other surprise ammunition types that I'll have in the video tomorrow but don't want to announce until then. I've chosen a couple of the nastier boxes/already torn boxes to shoot from so nothing super collectible will be destroyed to make the video.
 
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