8x57 question
I had dental work at a Kaiser dental clinic in Aloha OR today. There was a "surplus store" in a yello kinda-quonset next door, said they had military ammo. so I looked in. The young fellow behind the counter had a nose ring like Ferdinand the Bull! Anyway they had some 8x57 that looked pretty good so I bought a bag of 80. Couldn't read the headstamp with just my reading glasses, but the ammo was clean. I thought maybe FN? I got it home and read it with the magnifying glass. "TOC" "7.9" "1949" and "F.9" or maybe "F.g"
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What say you all? It was $60.00 for 80 rounds, kinda steep IMHO, but times and prices seem to have changed. I plan to shoot it all in my G-98, see how it (the ammo) shoots. The G-98 is pretty damn accurate once the barrel gets warm.
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