Question about Turkish ammo

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Belcavitch

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Just fired some 1940s Turkish ammo. (20 rounds) some of the casings split but not all. The bolt also stuck sometimes but it was not bad. This is an Ar 1943. I'm going to clean the gun here in a bit or in the morning. I was wondering if I damaged the gun or anything shooting the ammo. Deal was to good to pass up. Going to have to get a surplus Turkish 8mm and shoot that instead. Thanks.
 
Doubt you damaged the rifle - large ring Mausers are stout. Hope you are wearing safety glasses - the risk is blow back through the bolt.

Also would recommend you not wait till morning to clean after having fired that corrosive primed ammo.

Regards
Marty


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Turkish 8mm

met said:
Doubt you damaged the rifle - large ring Mausers are stout. Hope you are wearing safety glasses - the risk is blow back through the bolt.

Also would recommend you not wait till morning to clean after having fired that corrosive primed ammo.

Regards
Marty


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I have a fair amount of that ammo. I heard bad things about it being too hot. It shot ok with no issues at all in my Mauser but I thought it kicked more than I liked and sometimes gave me a stickey bolt lift. I pulled down about 100 and weighed most of the charges. I found them to vary no more than about 1 grain or so. I neck sized the cases and reloaded with about 6 grains less. Those all shot well with reduced recoil.
Never got any split necks in either the original loadings or the reloaded ones although I have heard of that.
I think that Turkish varies quite a bit depending on date of manufacture.
10/4 re cleaning immediately!
Pete
 
It's not hot....it's pretty darn close to spec for the *s* ball ammo. It shoots great out of long barrel 98s. My Persian loves it.
 
Spent a hour taking the gun apart and putting it back together. Looks good. Bolt still is a little stiff but that usually fixes after a few rounds. Looking st 8mm Turkish mausers. I have 330 8mm rounds and I do not want to put them all through a nice German one. Thanks guys.
 
was it 1947 dated turk

Split necks are common in that years production. Very good and accurate ammo in general, though it shoots very high in k98k's. clean after shooting. I wouldn't fire turk in a Portugese Viguerro because it has only 2 locking lugs, otherwise shoot it up.
gil
 
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I want to restart this as more information has come to light recently imo. I have shot about 200 rounds of the stuff through a james river armory restored k98 and I believe I am starting to see the recoil lug shift rearwards in the stock. The mauser action may be strong enough but the stocks are most definitely not. I have probably 1200 rounds of the stuff in addition to 1000 yugo surplus. Not sure if I should just shoot it through my inexpensive yugo mausers or sell it, but I would feel guilty passing it along to another dude just for it to blow up his stock. Let me know your thoughts I will make an effort to post pics of my stock tomorrow and show the potential damage.

Here is a vid that forgotten weapons did on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AunvMjcJPHY&t=29s
 
Hibbs said:
I want to restart this as more information has come to light recently imo. I have shot about 200 rounds of the stuff through a james river armory restored k98 and I believe I am starting to see the recoil lug shift rearwards in the stock. The mauser action may be strong enough but the stocks are most definitely not. I have probably 1200 rounds of the stuff in addition to 1000 yugo surplus. Not sure if I should just shoot it through my inexpensive yugo mausers or sell it, but I would feel guilty passing it along to another dude just for it to blow up his stock. Let me know your thoughts I will make an effort to post pics of my stock tomorrow and show the potential damage.

Here is a vid that forgotten weapons did on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AunvMjcJPHY&t=29s
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Thank you for posting the link to the video. I actually stumbled across that video the other day.

A few days ago I purchased some Turkish 8mm, bandolier of 70 rounds for $35 so I thought I would buy it. As with surplus ammo there are pros and cons, some good and some bad. Out of the 70 rounds 15 had split necks. When the time comes and I do use this ammo I'll use it with my Yugo captured rifle and not a rifle in collectible condition, just to be safe.

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