8mm mauser problem

[soyarm]

My friend use a mallet on the bolt handle

A mallet to open it? seems to me it would take a mallet to close it also.

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[roberto mervicini]

A mallet to open it? seems to me it would take a mallet to close it also.

Not really, apparently the customers claim the 308 cartridge went into the 270 chamber no problem the bolt close normally, after it fire the expansion of the brass require some help ...!!! and the large mauser type extractor didn't brooke !!!

[jmoore]

I've heard tales of .35 remington in 8x57 before. No big kabooms, but it's not pretty. Unlike the Magnums in the story above, the 35 is a "modest pressure" round that doesn't seal the chamber well. Lots of blow back can be expected, which can lead to wrecked stocks, etc. and also may be rough to the trigger puller's face and offhand....

[CINDERS]

Yep sounds great the usual split cases here and there, don't matter the blow torch affect the gasses will have on the chamber we will just keep bangin' away and see what fun we can have, did you bother to check the cases pre shooting as accepting old ammo and just shooting it from an unknown source not on your life nelly.
I would have pulled the lot and started over in fact I would have just added them to my collection as who loaded them were they factory as you stated there were two 35 Rems in the mix? and as for the few head separations that points to excessive head spacing/stretched cases
Look your probably a really good chap but get this in your mindset mmppres;
THE DYNAMIC FORCES CONTAINED IN FRONT OF YOUR BEAK COULD RANGE FROM 40,000 TO 65,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH if you have a catastrophic failure your either in a pine box, seriously injured and deaf and the poor buggers next to you at the range as stated are at risk. Besides was the rifle checked by a competent gunsmith for head spacing, bore condition, firing pin protrusion and cleaned before the range session its an SOP bloke.

Step back buy some good quality ammo and then have fun, get reloading gear a few good manuals ask the gurus on this site for tips and live happily ever after otherwise bloke your on a spiral straight down and I for one do not want to be next to you on a range. Sorry for being blunt but it is what it is and you have to understand what your dealing with.

[Aragorn243]

This kind of stuff reinforces my nervousness of shooting some of my firearms. I check and doublecheck everything before taking it to the range. Commercial ammo isn't a problem as it's marked but a lot of this surplus stuff simply has dates, etc on it. With dozens of different calibers, you HAVE to know what you are shooting and what is in that box.

[mmppres]

thanks for the info guys an i think i fount out what happened. seam like the guy i got all this ammo an guns from had both cal 35rem an 8mm along with a dozen different military firearms. when i opend the factory box i thought they were all 8mm. upon looking at the carboard boxes seam like they were resealed with some type of glue. so the orginal owner must have had ammo maybe in a pocket of a hunting coat an when done put last to caseing in box of 8mm. the one an only 35 i fires srtaightened out. other one i didnt fire. i pulled bolt an checked every thing right at range. even cleaned bore before i resumed shooting. the case seperation i had were all 8mm r&p factory loads. probably from the 1950's. I try to follow all shooting rule an safety proceedures. Just a mis take in looking at that box of ammo. i still have a pile of ammo cans full of stuff that goes with alll these rifles. some i have no idea about but have ordered take down manuals off line for the different one i can identify. i due understand old ammo will fail. and when they show signs of pressure like primmer backing out or base seperation. i dont finish shooting that box. splits in neck happen also. thank you very much for the help i just never had that happen before.

[browningautorifle]

the one an only 35 i fires srtaightened out. other one i didnt fire

Nope, not in a million years

There you go. And this isn't the only time I've seen/heard of it.

[mmppres]

well i went thru the whole one stack of ammo cans over the week end an found alot of different ammo not in right boxes. so that stack is safe to shoot in proper rifles. even found some large rimfire rounds