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I picked up a box of 8mm mauser ammo at the gun show this weekend and was told that it was German ammo. But I'm just not convinced, I'm new to the Mauser market but all the German mauser ammo I've seen has had markings on it. Does anybody know what kind of mauser ammo this is?

I have some of that, I picked it up many years ago and I don't recall what it was. I think it was marketed as German at the time, but I don't think I confirmed that. I shoot ammo more than I collect it.

It's old for sure... anything stamped on the box?

Interesting. The only surplus I've seen without markings before was Japanese.

I have some Turkish that has bullets like that but they are stamped as such on the head.

There is no markings on the ammo or the box. That's what I thought was odd

Rongo wrote:It's old for sure... anything stamped on the box?

No, the box is blank and it was the only box of it they had. I seen it and thought its 8mm, I'm here, its here and bought it. Hopefully I'll be able to shoot this weekend and put it to good use

Don't go shooting any of this until you can verify for sure what it is.

Longcolt44 wrote:Don't go shooting any of this until you can verify for sure what it is.

Agreed.

For comparison ..... here is a "battle pack" from 1938 of German 8mm I have and what it looks like

Most German ammo I've seen is very well marked on the box and on the rim.

That's how I thought the German ammo looked, which made me question if it was actually German or not. Mine is in the cardboard box, but the information tab has been tore of the box

Few years back I read somewhere on the internet that Czechlosovakia made "Sanitized" or "Covert Operations" 8mm ammo for sale to other countries. How true that is I can't tell you, but if it's on the internet its got to be true right! Makes sense if you think of it along the lines of Plausible Deniability.

I have shot a lot of it. I was told it was made for Germany during ww2 by another axis country but I do not remember which one . I still have a lot of it. mine came lose in ammo cans.it cost was 7cents around in the early 90s when I bought it.century was selling it for $50 a case delivered.my wife thought I was crazy buying so much back then.i will have enough to do me the rest of my life. this is just one part of it in my closet

Buy it cheap and stack it deep!

websterz wrote:Buy it cheap and stack it deep!

That's Right!

The plain unmarked boxes were probably the result of being reboxed from bulk for the sake of reselling.

Pulled a bullet on one of my DWM cartridges-the base of the lead core was marked DM by the manufacturer. Talk about being anal with marking stuff.