Ethiopia uses a different calendar if I remember right, and they lag behind by seven or eight years, so that could explain the difference in the dates on the packaging and cartridges.
yeah, they start on a different date and have differing leap year rules, difference seems to be 7-8 years. So packaging is dated on ethiopian calender and the ammo on standard western calender
About 10 years ago I bought a few large card board boxes of German 1943 dated WWII 8mm ammo. If I remember correctly the story was that it was captured in Tunisia and kept in storage there. The boxes where designed to fit into a German ammo can and the top would be rip off to access the smaller cartridge boxes. The cartridges were on steel stripper clips. The brass cased ammo looked great for the age and who knows how it was stored. Though it did not shoot well. There was at least one dud on each stripper clip and plenty of hang fires. The average speed recorded by the chronograph was pretty consistent for old ammo. I shot about 150 Rds, gave some to a friend, and then kept the other intact boxes for display. I do not remember what I paid for it though I do believe It was pretty pricey for 8mm. At that time you cold get Comm block 8mm Romanian for a lot less. I believe Century imported it.
By the looks of it, this was probably pretty good ammo in it's day - primers well staked and sealed, good bullet uniformity, and for those rounds that fired promptly, really not bad velocity uniformity. On the other hand, a two in 15 chance of not firing on the first attempt. I'd buy it if the price were right.
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I doubt you’ll find it again. Not something I’d run through any semi auto, but if you feel like running 150+ rounds through a bolt action it’s perfect. Only 2 duds and just some slight hangfires.
I bought 300 rounds for 80 bucks, three in five had hang fires, one in five were completely inert, and one in five would shoot like normal. The video shows them to be pretty reliable, and I'm not the greatest marksmen, but I swear these shots go absolutely everywhere when compared to romanian, german, and privi partizan ammunition. Certainly an adventure to shoot.
20 Years ago I had some Ecuadorian 8mm surplus and it had hard primers. My friends K98 had hangfires shooting it but my M48 shot it all with no problem. The ammo might be okay but the firing pin spring might be a little soft in your rifle. Just an observation.
As a massive fan who hasnt ever fired a gun (i did get to hold a hunting rifle once!) this is an interesting detail of the gun hobby I would never have seen otherwise. Keep up the cool content!
Again Ian, thank you for all the informative and interesting videos you do. I am amazed at how busy you are and what a diverse amount of weapons you seem to be able to get your hands on.
Considering that m2 ball pretty much goes off every time, I expect it could be better. Although it is worth considering that what we just saw of the Ethiopian 8mm was a small sample size and my own experience with m2 is merely the experience of one dude.
I feel like if I tried to shoot through a chronograph like that, I'd end up putting a round right into the sensors lol. Makes me nervous almost just watching you do it haha.
Ammo boxes like those are cool. My early '60's (AFAIK) Yugoslavian mil-surp x39 containers have an equal amount of character. Kinda like a little time capsule. Interesting to learn that other countries packaged the smallest boxes in, what seems unconventional to myself, 15 round amounts. Very entertaining video!
This episode was very nice, it also made me remember some of the OG RUclips channels that reviewed ammo in all its variations, provenances, and forms. I miss those times.
This is so much like a Paul Harrel ammo test video (Or basically any Ammo test) I kept expecting his voice, whenever Ian looked up from the readout, the first few times. Surreal.
I love collecting ammo as much or sometimes more than firearms. I have some very old ammo and its awesome to see how stuff was made privately and from big factorys. Keep doing ammo reviews like this 👍🔫
Just fired some of this ammo (though not many considering the ammo shortage). However, ZERO misfires, ZERO hangfires. Used a Yugoslavian M24/47, noted for having a strong firing pin spring. Also, while the ammo seems to have some kind of very light cosmoline on it, a quick wipe each cartridge with an old t-shirt cleaned it up pretty well. Not sure what the complaints are about, since I couldn't duplicate the problems, and yes, I did watch the video.
4:47 - our great and infinitely knowledgeable preacher & purveyor of the firearm himself, Gun Jesus, has laid upon our ears the first sound waves of 'The Hymn of Mouser'! It's just so... ...so, so beautiful, really brought tears to my eyes...
If reggae is anything to go by (and they do really like him, oh boy), high-lee is the pronunciation. See if my linguistics friend knows better. I was all ready to say 'hey, these are better than the last set' from the first clip, but then, no, hangfire city again.
Well, yeah... probably due to the fact that the Rastafari church/religion views him as God incarnate and their messiah. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie#Rastafari_messiah
Like this and will like more of them. Had a box of 1918 dated .45 ACP. Fired most of it off a couple of years ago and every one went boom normally. Didn't chrono them but I had some of them mixed in with about five other types, ages and brands of .45 to demonstrate that my XD45 is not a picky eater.
Since the packaging is written in Amharic (official language of Ethiopia ) i assume the year is also in Ethiopian calendar which is behind 8/7 years. So the headstamp on the cartridge 1955 (Gregorian calendar) is the same as 1947 (Ethiopian calendar) on the packaging material.
This was very interesting. I would very much enjoy see more. Last I believe there was a very interesting story attached to the munitions factory and it's name sake. Thanks again Ian.
That hang-fired, re-cocked 2505fps was significantly louder at least in my audio.. 2505fps with a 197gr boattail slug is a pretty stout round even by today's standards..
Why the Germans needed a cartridge this powerful is beyond me... That being said, it makes an excellent machine gun cartridge... So that may have been a reason.
As noted earlier, the hang fires were slower, leaving those out of the equation the deviation would be pretty good. seems to have been excellent ammo to begin with.
I purchased some Turkish 8mm mauser ammo several years back, it was steel jacketed, and nearly every case would either crack or parts of the neck would fracture and chip off when fired.
I can see why many old military rifles like Lee-Enfields and Mosin Nagants has cocking knobs you could pull. If the gun had a hangfire when Ian tried to recock the gun, it would have been a out of battery detonation and probably would have damaged the rifle and/or injured Ian's hand.
PS. If you do get a box with known hang fires they can be rather accurate. If they have about a 3-5 second hang and you stay on target they will appear to be most accurate. Not that they are but as you know when a round goes off it is supposed to be a surprise and that time allows for aiming and surprise... I had some east Europe stuff that did that.
Always interesting to see someone work a bolt the same way I do. Interesting because I didn’t know how it looked from an onlookers perspective. Not as daft as I thought it looked. 👍
I bought a bunch of Turkish 8x57 ~20 years ago that had cupro-nickel jackets. I thought they were steel until I held a magnet to them. That's the only time I've ever seen that style of jacket.
It's odd that the velocities were so consistent. even with the hang fires. I would like to have seen the primers on the ones that took two strikes. I'm going to say really really hard primers. Or maybe not as well seated as you would think? And Ian, Bless His Heart, at the first failure to fire. Isn't he so adorable??? I don't think I will be buying this lot number of 8mm... Thanks Ian.
Old chlorate-based primers tend to do that after 50 years or so if not kept in temperature-controlled storage...I've encountered the same thing with WW2 .30-06 surplus, which also used a chlorate-based primer.
I demand reload montage! Stripper-and en-bloc clips, single -double and quad-stacked magazines! Internal and external magazines! Don't forget the drum magazines!
Just open my order from classic that was dated 2018. It’s been stored inside the house where humid controlled. The round all have fine sands in them so mine was not in a crate. The first 5 boxes I shot every round was a Hang-fire and also double strike. It’s unnerving as some of the hand fire goes off a few milliseconds after the trigger is pulled.
If you take just the non-hangfire rounds, their velocity has a standard deviation only 11.65 fps (avg. 2467) - so this was originally very good ammo. All the hang-firing rounds were consistently ~ 36 fps slower, except for the last shot, which was actually the fastest. Just the hang-firing rounds had a terrible SD of 33.5 fps because of that round (5.6 fps without it). If you could somehow avoid or "fix" those hang-fires, it would be a winner.
Super fascinating video; looking forward to more of them. As for the two cartridges which required second strikes, I wonder if that could be a result of a slightly offset strike which missed the anvil in the bottom of the berdan case, or if there was an issue in manufacture with the case such that the anvil in the pocket wasn't properly shaped and sized.
Good Idea for us surplus collectors and shooters. It is always a crap shoot as too what we get when we order and cannot really afford. This helps our choices. Thanks
Someone PLEASE make a ringtone or compilation of Ian's noises XD Seriously though, really interesting to see a close look at ammo as I know fairly little about the specifics
this is the ammo that I was using that caused my injury. I got a box of this ammo and had 7 missfires in a row, i waited 30 seconds after each one cause safety. Well when the 8th one clicked i only waited 10 seconds cause i was frustrated as anyone would be. So i unlocked the bolt and it fired. It sent the bolt backwards and into my right cheek and cut me just shy of the jaw bone. the cut is about 4 inches long from the center of my cheek to the edge of my jaw. I write this hoping that if someone ends up in the same situation as i did (hang fire) they dont make the same mistake i did.
That’s a complete difference with this ammunition’s FPS and the Turkish 8mm ammunition. I recall the FPS on the Turkish ammo was at 2900 FPS which is almost 5.56 NATO speed.
If the bullet had decided to go off while recocking the rifle would that have been bad? The bolt is unlocked during that brief moment right? Awesome video btw, love seeing the old packaging and how they perform at such an old age.
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"..so let's crunch the numbers." Damn, wrong channel. I had a Paul Harrell moment.
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I expected a meat target with a hi-tech fleece bullet stop!
The crossover among the firearms community on RUclips is truly amazing
So, is the Ethiopian 8mm worth it? You be the judge.
@@emperorspock3506 Don't forget the pork rib "Pektral"
Would be Interesting to see an evaluation of some old British ww2 era 303 ammunition loaded with cordite
hey Fry nice to see you here (werebear on IF)
If anybody could find it, it would be Gun Jesus. Let's thumb this comment up so he sees it!
I like the comment but on my screen it’s saying it was posted a week ago and the video only went up 35 minutes ago. Wtf RUclips?!?
@@fscreations7373 patreon only upload 1st maybe?
Good idea but I am a Patreon supporter and haven’t seen it posted before. ‘Tis strange
Ethiopia uses a different calendar if I remember right, and they lag behind by seven or eight years, so that could explain the difference in the dates on the packaging and cartridges.
yeah, they start on a different date and have differing leap year rules, difference seems to be 7-8 years. So packaging is dated on ethiopian calender and the ammo on standard western calender
@@RonJohn63 Possibly for export to other nations ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar?wprov=sfla1
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@@RonJohn63 They may have imported the brass, bullets, cases, and primers.
About 10 years ago I bought a few large card board boxes of German 1943 dated WWII 8mm ammo. If I remember correctly the story was that it was captured in Tunisia and kept in storage there. The boxes where designed to fit into a German ammo can and the top would be rip off to access the smaller cartridge boxes. The cartridges were on steel stripper clips. The brass cased ammo looked great for the age and who knows how it was stored. Though it did not shoot well. There was at least one dud on each stripper clip and plenty of hang fires. The average speed recorded by the chronograph was pretty consistent for old ammo. I shot about 150 Rds, gave some to a friend, and then kept the other intact boxes for display. I do not remember what I paid for it though I do believe It was pretty pricey for 8mm. At that time you cold get Comm block 8mm Romanian for a lot less. I believe Century imported it.
By the looks of it, this was probably pretty good ammo in it's day - primers well staked and sealed, good bullet uniformity, and for those rounds that fired promptly, really not bad velocity uniformity. On the other hand, a two in 15 chance of not firing on the first attempt. I'd buy it if the price were right.
Well, considering the age of the ammunition I'd say it's still not all that terrible.
I'd say it was pretty amazing in its day. The rounds that did not hang-fire had just 11.65 fps standard deviation in velocity.
Gary Mitchell it’s still 80-90 bucks for a brick of 300. Good price if you ask me.
I just bought some, about 31 cents a round
@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I doubt you’ll find it again. Not something I’d run through any semi auto, but if you feel like running 150+ rounds through a bolt action it’s perfect. Only 2 duds and just some slight hangfires.
4:47 cutest and the most adorable thing i ever heard
cringe
based
Bit of flinch on that one, too.
I disagree, 5:18 is cuter
You girls need to stop right damned now. You're going to embarrass him.
I bought 300 rounds for 80 bucks, three in five had hang fires, one in five were completely inert, and one in five would shoot like normal. The video shows them to be pretty reliable, and I'm not the greatest marksmen, but I swear these shots go absolutely everywhere when compared to romanian, german, and privi partizan ammunition. Certainly an adventure to shoot.
I bought the same amount for the same price, and I must say I'm glad it wasn't just my batch that would only fire a round or two per magazine
As someone that should be studying for a stats final I’m glad you took the standard deviation
I’m so happy you’re planning on making this a series of sorts. We always need more data!
"High-lee Sell-ass-ee" is how I think it's said.
I and I confirm dat, mon.
Ya mon.
His name was Tafari Makonnen . Just add this guy is a good for Rastafarians,. He must said Selassie I jah rastafari bless!!!
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, that's how I've always heard it pronounced, too (and the way I learned it in high school many, many years ago). 👍
Jose Moreno Porras no he changed his name to his baptism name during his coronation Haile Selassie means Power To The Holy Spirit.
20 Years ago I had some Ecuadorian 8mm surplus and it had hard primers. My friends K98 had hangfires shooting it but
my M48 shot it all with no problem. The ammo might be okay but the firing pin spring might be a little soft in your rifle. Just an observation.
2Stonefly would this be good machine gun ammo?
I have almost no formal training with firearms and this video taught me two very useful things. Thank you Ian.
As a massive fan who hasnt ever fired a gun (i did get to hold a hunting rifle once!) this is an interesting detail of the gun hobby I would never have seen otherwise. Keep up the cool content!
I don't know what's worse... a hang fire or one that you have to hit twice. Both are extremely unnerving!
I really enjoy these ammo evaluations. I have no idea why as I'm never going to use any of it (live in the UK) but I find them fascinating!
Again Ian, thank you for all the informative and interesting videos you do. I am amazed at how busy you are and what a diverse amount of weapons you seem to be able to get your hands on.
Considering they're 63 years old I'd say these rounds are bloody good.
Considering that m2 ball pretty much goes off every time, I expect it could be better. Although it is worth considering that what we just saw of the Ethiopian 8mm was a small sample size and my own experience with m2 is merely the experience of one dude.
I feel like if I tried to shoot through a chronograph like that, I'd end up putting a round right into the sensors lol. Makes me nervous almost just watching you do it haha.
Ammo boxes like those are cool. My early '60's (AFAIK) Yugoslavian mil-surp x39 containers have an equal amount of character. Kinda like a little time capsule. Interesting to learn that other countries packaged the smallest boxes in, what seems unconventional to myself, 15 round amounts. Very entertaining video!
The 98 family of Mausers have a very distinct bolt throw sound. Feel free to do more of these ammo evals Ian.
The factory still exist, in the middle of town. Making bombs rockets en small arms ammo :)
boedhaspeaks nice!!
This episode was very nice, it also made me remember some of the OG RUclips channels that reviewed ammo in all its variations, provenances, and forms. I miss those times.
This is so much like a Paul Harrel ammo test video (Or basically any Ammo test) I kept expecting his voice, whenever Ian looked up from the readout, the first few times. Surreal.
Danm. Standard deviations on ammunition. You are the best Ian.
I don't need the ammo, but how much for the crate?
thought the same thing, really like the crate.
A Hettinger stuff is still 90 bucks a crate. I’d buy it.
90$ for 1500 rounds? Damn, that sounds cheap even for surplus.
Andreas Noa classic firearms has it for $448 after shipping. I think he meant the crate alone is $90
I love collecting ammo as much or sometimes more than firearms. I have some very old ammo and its awesome to see how stuff was made privately and from big factorys. Keep doing ammo reviews like this 👍🔫
I don't blame you for flinching shooting 8mm Mauser
Just fired some of this ammo (though not many considering the ammo shortage). However, ZERO misfires, ZERO hangfires. Used a Yugoslavian M24/47, noted for having a strong firing pin spring. Also, while the ammo seems to have some kind of very light cosmoline on it, a quick wipe each cartridge with an old t-shirt cleaned it up pretty well. Not sure what the complaints are about, since I couldn't duplicate the problems, and yes, I did watch the video.
4:44 Ian on a elevator
How I feel every morning waiting for the day's video to upload
So glad you are doing more of these! Keep it up Ian!
Hang fires were 30 to 40 fps slower than the rest typically . Neat info.
These are invaluable. You`re really rolling the dice when you buy surplus ammo, so these will be a great reference.
Great to see the ammo that fits some of these weapons, keep it up. Thanks.
Damn hang-fires. Definitely a situation where I would prefer the (re)cocking knob on the Krag/M-1903 over the mauser.
Definitely one of my favourite channels
interesting that every cartridge with a hang-fire lost 30-50 fps compared to those that fired normally
mabey incomplete burn?
The nice thing about shooting old ammo in a Mauser? One of the strongest actions in the world.
So close to 1M subscribers! You’ll have it soon, congratulations!
4:47 - our great and infinitely knowledgeable preacher & purveyor of the firearm himself, Gun Jesus, has laid upon our ears the first sound waves of 'The Hymn of Mouser'!
It's just so... ...so, so beautiful, really brought tears to my eyes...
Love these evaluation videos, glad you want to continue doing them!
Solid work. Loving this series-to-be!
Very interesting! Many topics condensed into 13 worthwhile minutes: ammo history, hang fire safety procedure and ethiopian calendar.
Congrats on one mil guys! Keep up the great work!
Nice, some love for good ol’ 8mm Mauser
If reggae is anything to go by (and they do really like him, oh boy), high-lee is the pronunciation. See if my linguistics friend knows better.
I was all ready to say 'hey, these are better than the last set' from the first clip, but then, no, hangfire city again.
I couldn't stop laughing. And the look on his face when he says it.
Well, yeah... probably due to the fact that the Rastafari church/religion views him as God incarnate and their messiah.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie#Rastafari_messiah
Thanks Ian. Really like these videos. I understand why but would love seeing some rounds on paper as well.
Like this and will like more of them.
Had a box of 1918 dated .45 ACP. Fired most of it off a couple of years ago and every one went boom normally. Didn't chrono them but I had some of them mixed in with about five other types, ages and brands of .45 to demonstrate that my XD45 is not a picky eater.
“Use our ammunition and you’re guaranteed to loose!”
liking these videos, glad more are coming!
This is great timing, a couple of Ethiopian rounds got mixed in with some surplus 8mm I just received
I really enjoyed this evaluation.
Love these ammo videos
great ammo review! love the crate!
Since the packaging is written in Amharic (official language of Ethiopia ) i assume the year is also in Ethiopian calendar which is behind 8/7 years. So the headstamp on the cartridge 1955 (Gregorian calendar) is the same as 1947 (Ethiopian calendar) on the packaging material.
Really enjoyed this video! This is actually not that bad as far as my experience with surplus goes.. the worst I've shot was Syrian 7.5 French ammo.
Im 20 years old and into ballistics. I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
I just bought a Yugo M48, and once you scrub off the cosmoline, they are just darlings
My 1898 Mauser carbine has a lip on the hammer for cocking without unlocking the breach. it works with the extraction rim of another casing.
This was interesting to watch , nice vintage ammo box for sure !
This was very interesting. I would very much enjoy see more. Last I believe there was a very interesting story attached to the munitions factory and it's name sake. Thanks again Ian.
That hang-fired, re-cocked 2505fps was significantly louder at least in my audio.. 2505fps with a 197gr boattail slug is a pretty stout round even by today's standards..
Why the Germans needed a cartridge this powerful is beyond me... That being said, it makes an excellent machine gun cartridge... So that may have been a reason.
well done taking care of bad hangfires
that was fascinating,thanks,loved it
As noted earlier, the hang fires were slower, leaving those out of the equation the deviation would be pretty good. seems to have been excellent ammo to begin with.
I purchased some Turkish 8mm mauser ammo several years back, it was steel jacketed, and nearly every case would either crack or parts of the neck would fracture and chip off when fired.
Ethiopia is the Elephant graveyard for Surplus Firearms and Ammo. The only thing this ammo is good for is powder and bullets.
While waiting with those failures to fire, I started hearing the Jeopardy music in my head.....
That k98k (m48)looks interesting, it has a darker kind wood and that (what looks like)a satin finish wich make the gun look unique
Wouldn't want to fire hangfire heavy ammo, but that crate is neato.
Ammo factory was built by Czechoslovakia at 1947 (construction started). Completed in 1953 I believe.
Actually, this one was the second one built by Czechoslovakia. First one was constructed in 20's.
I can see why many old military rifles like Lee-Enfields and Mosin Nagants has cocking knobs you could pull. If the gun had a hangfire when Ian tried to recock the gun, it would have been a out of battery detonation and probably would have damaged the rifle and/or injured Ian's hand.
Congratulations on the 1 million subs!
Cant wait till it hits the market even if its not 100% fire its good reloading components
Try to find one of the 8000 98K rifles that Sweden bought but re-chambered in 8×63mm Swedish. Which was a Swedish 8mm machine gun cartridge.
PS. If you do get a box with known hang fires they can be rather accurate. If they have about a 3-5 second hang and you stay on target they will appear to be most accurate. Not that they are but as you know when a round goes off it is supposed to be a surprise and that time allows for aiming and surprise... I had some east Europe stuff that did that.
999K subscribers! Let's go people! One final push like the planned Spring Offensive of 1919 will carry us to victory!
Century needs to sell the crates by themselves. They are really cool
Always interesting to see someone work a bolt the same way I do. Interesting because I didn’t know how it looked from an onlookers perspective. Not as daft as I thought it looked. 👍
I bought a bunch of Turkish 8x57 ~20 years ago that had cupro-nickel jackets. I thought they were steel until I held a magnet to them. That's the only time I've ever seen that style of jacket.
Velocity-wise, that is really consistent ammo. As to the hang-fire, what do you guys think caused that? Light strikes? Hard primers? Old powder?
Could be any of that. Old ammo can be temperamental.
Old primers/powder. Even when stored correctly, priming compounds and powder don't keep all that well.
It's odd that the velocities were so consistent. even with the hang fires. I would like to have seen the primers on the ones that took two strikes. I'm going to say really really hard primers. Or maybe not as well seated as you would think? And Ian, Bless His Heart, at the first failure to fire. Isn't he so adorable??? I don't think I will be buying this lot number of 8mm... Thanks Ian.
Old chlorate-based primers tend to do that after 50 years or so if not kept in temperature-controlled storage...I've encountered the same thing with WW2 .30-06 surplus, which also used a chlorate-based primer.
Might have been the gun. Had issues the more he shot.
I demand reload montage! Stripper-and en-bloc clips, single -double and quad-stacked magazines! Internal and external magazines! Don't forget the drum magazines!
am I the only one who had a massive deja-vu throughout the entire video?
Just open my order from classic that was dated 2018. It’s been stored inside the house where humid controlled. The round all have fine sands in them so mine was not in a crate. The first 5 boxes I shot every round was a Hang-fire and also double strike. It’s unnerving as some of the hand fire goes off a few milliseconds after the trigger is pulled.
Congrats on 1 million! :D
its always unnerving to watch you test this old stuff
If you take just the non-hangfire rounds, their velocity has a standard deviation only 11.65 fps (avg. 2467) - so this was originally very good ammo.
All the hang-firing rounds were consistently ~ 36 fps slower, except for the last shot, which was actually the fastest. Just the hang-firing rounds had a terrible SD of 33.5 fps because of that round (5.6 fps without it).
If you could somehow avoid or "fix" those hang-fires, it would be a winner.
Super fascinating video; looking forward to more of them. As for the two cartridges which required second strikes, I wonder if that could be a result of a slightly offset strike which missed the anvil in the bottom of the berdan case, or if there was an issue in manufacture with the case such that the anvil in the pocket wasn't properly shaped and sized.
Good Idea for us surplus collectors and shooters. It is always a crap shoot as too what we get when we order and cannot really afford. This helps our choices. Thanks
5:16 LOOK THAT THAT FLINCH LMAO, TBH I'd probably do the same thing, this ammo scares me.
Good stuff honestly. Just need a strong striker.
I would like to see a comparison between 63 year old ammo, and newly made. I hope I'm able not to hang fire too much when I'm 63.
Definitely do more of these pls
Special guest appearance by Paul Harrell @2:36 .
Someone PLEASE make a ringtone or compilation of Ian's noises XD
Seriously though, really interesting to see a close look at ammo as I know fairly little about the specifics
These vids are awesome
this is the ammo that I was using that caused my injury. I got a box of this ammo and had 7 missfires in a row, i waited 30 seconds after each one cause safety. Well when the 8th one clicked i only waited 10 seconds cause i was frustrated as anyone would be. So i unlocked the bolt and it fired. It sent the bolt backwards and into my right cheek and cut me just shy of the jaw bone. the cut is about 4 inches long from the center of my cheek to the edge of my jaw. I write this hoping that if someone ends up in the same situation as i did (hang fire) they dont make the same mistake i did.
I just think it just shows how good the Mauser K98k is.
That’s a complete difference with this ammunition’s FPS and the Turkish 8mm ammunition. I recall the FPS on the Turkish ammo was at 2900 FPS which is almost 5.56 NATO speed.
If the bullet had decided to go off while recocking the rifle would that have been bad? The bolt is unlocked during that brief moment right? Awesome video btw, love seeing the old packaging and how they perform at such an old age.
The muzzle blast is hard on those sky screens. Just back up a little.