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Lialos
05-20-2012, 06:36 PM
Is it a ludicrous question to ask if a Mini-G can be rebarreled for 8mm Mauser?

I know people make 8mm Mauser ammo with resized 30-06 brass, so they can't be too different. Right?
Punch The Clown
05-20-2012, 07:22 PM
8mm Mauser is just about .35 caliber. Tim already makes the gun in 35 Whelen.
timshufflin
05-20-2012, 08:31 PM
I don't do Mauser.
Lialos
05-20-2012, 09:59 PM
I don't do Mauser.

So that question was easy to answer!
mixmaster
05-20-2012, 11:37 PM
Very interesting question. I was at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and saw a pallet of M1s in crates marked 7.92/8mmm in big red letters. No one seemed to know anything about them and I was informed the possibility of the Germans having converted the Garand for their use. No one had an answer supported by facts. and I did not get to handle them so maybe we did it or maybe they did. Who has the answer?
Mix
Eli
05-21-2012, 12:08 AM
No answer, but when 8mm was common in the past many a Garand got a 7.92 barrel.

Eli
Punch The Clown
05-21-2012, 06:42 AM
http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo140/Stumedic/file.jpg
NE450No2
06-12-2012, 01:50 AM
While I have never seen a 8mm Garand, I had a buddy that had a Browning 1919, that had a barrel and the correct feed plate parts to shoot 8mm Mauser.
Reason, there was a LOT of surplus 8mm ammo on the market, very little 30/06

He also had 308 barrels and feed plate parts for it as well as for 30/06.

The gun used cloth belts and he had a beltloading machine.

Two people on the belt loader could nearly keep up with two people firing the gun.

The 1919 is one fine piece of kit.

As all things designed by John Browning.