Unmarked 8MM

[onlycrimson]

I picked up some, I believe, Yugo stuff that is single flash hole berdan primed.

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[smellie]

Just for a ha-ha here, I picked up some 9mmP brass at the range, this from a batch of olde S&B (Czech) ammo that our local shop was getting rid of. Same box of 25 shells, 1, 2, 3 AND 4 flash-holes! No wonder the stuff was cheap! Shot like it, too.

As to single-flash-hole Berdan brass in 7.92x57, there was a lot of it manufactured in Yugoslavia in the early 1950s. Generally, it is base-stamped with a little star. As to German ammo, they reserved brass cases for the Luftwaffe, as they had less jams and hangups with the brass cases. Pretty hard to clear a jam in a cowl gun or a wing gun if you are strapped into the cockpit of your 109 and have a Mustang on your butt.

This is the first unmarked stuff I have come across. Man above is right; a careful autopsy on single round is definitely in order. Slug sounds like SmE spec: 178 grains, soft-steel core, lead envelope, steel jacket.
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