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Sculpin

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Hello everybody and thanks for accepting me to the forum. My brother back in Illinois has my fathers k98 8mm that he brought home from Germany ca 1945. He has shot it a few times but has no need for it. I want to have him send it out to a dealer in Oregon so I can use it for elk hunting. I want to use the open sights..no scoping. I can reload Barnes 180 grain .323 bullets for it. What velocity should I load for to match the tangent site distances. I want "0" at 100 meters.
 
Is it shooting high? Most of these rifles shoot fairly dead on at 100 meters already. I'll say the "obligatory" that if its 100% original all matching you are doing a disservice to the rifle and should just use a generic deer rifle. Photos would help greatly.
 
I have a like new .308 SAKO Finnwolf that is my deer rifle. I don't have the K98 yet could be a while as my brother thinks like you. I handled this rifle when in my teens, seemed like it was in good condition (nothing obviously missing or damaged) but awfully heavy compared to the .22 bolts I was used to.
 
I would agree that "sporterizing" is a disservice. Not going there. I intend to target shoot and hunt with it "as is".
 
Sculpin said:
I would agree that "sporterizing" is a disservice. Not going there. I intend to target shoot and hunt with it "as is".
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Not even talking about sporterizing it, exposing a (theoretically) all original rifle to the rigors of hunting in the wilderness will slowly cause irreparable damage to the finish of the metal and stock.
 
Sculpin said:
I have a like new .308 SAKO Finnwolf that is my deer rifle. I don't have the K98 yet could be a while as my brother thinks like you. I handled this rifle when in my teens, seemed like it was in good condition (nothing obviously missing or damaged) but awfully heavy compared to the .22 bolts I was used to.
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These rifles were zeroed at around 100 meters I believe so any commercial ammo should work , you may be thinking of the earlier Gew98 that was zeroed further out? or have you shot it recently and observed it being high?
 
my brother has shot it a few times. I think he did not like doing that due to reoil and muzzle blast....no matter where its shooting I can adjust velocity in reloads to have it on "0" . I have read somewhere that the ammo used in WWII was 2700 fps for 180 grain bullet..which sounds about right. my plan is to adjust the reloads to get 100 meter "0".
 
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