Thread: 8mm06

Anyone on here have a 8mm06 that they're reloading for?
Phil.

Oh!!! forgot photo.

Long time ago I did but not recently. Have two rifles in 8mm-06

How does the caliber perform?....Never used it.
Any favourite loading? The projectiles in the photo's 200gnsp. I pulled these the other day after getting them on T/M but they badly needed cleaning up.
The 4 shells with broken off necks are when using the RCBS press bullet puller & came away with the projectiles.
I'll cut the 06 shells back to 308 & use them with reduced loads later.
All brass are x Mil boxer primed & came up very clean in the wet tumbler.
Phil.

It was quite popular in the US after WW2, amongst those that thought the 8x57 was gutless so rechambered mausers to take the 3006 necked up to 8mm. Sort of in the 35 Whelan area performance wise and a step up on the 06 especially with heavier bullets

The real reason for the 30-06 parent case was the lack of 7.92x57 brass in the US after WW11. Lengthening the chamber with an '06 reamer meant brass was easily available and war souvenier rifles could be used in the field.

Im pretty sure this is what I used last time I loaded some.

https://www.nosler.com/8mm-06

Or 57 grains of 2208 pushing a 170 gr round nosed projectile. No idea of speed , minute of goat material though.

170 gr Hornady Interlocks

I was loading for an 8x60 Brno model 21 which was fun. I used ‘very light’ 8mm-06 load data. It was nice to shoot with light loads under 50gr but was getting stout on the shoulder when getting over 55gr. I just can’t recall without looking at my notes if it was 2208 or 2209. I’d imagine the ‘06 is the much the same.

Cheers. Anyone have load data for the 200gnrnsp?
The caliber doesn't appear in the few reloading manuals I have.

Speer number 10 and 11 show this

this might help too

https://shootersreference.com/reloadingdata/8-mm-06/

and this

https://www.ballisticstudies.com/Kno...se/8mm-06.html

Cheers, Thanks FK. appreciated.