Wartime 8mm ammo?

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I picked up a box of ammo recently, and need help to ID it. Thanks, Charlie

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cloth carry strap

seems to hold about 200 rounds in combat pack

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Looks like AP

Ap?

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cartouche on lid

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buckle marked

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box

15 rd. boxes

[Cam_S]

Tracer

Hello,

What yo have there is 8mm yellow tracer. The black colour arpund the tip of the bullet means that it is tracer, not AP. Where is says lspur (gelb) means its yellow.

Here is a link that should help you out.

http://users.swing.be/sw017995/792color.htm

Cam

[jacobtowne]

P-28 is the maker's code for Deutsche Waffen u. Munitionsfabriken A.-G., Karlsruhe, Germany.
JT

[Willi Z.]

Hello,

What yo have there is 8mm yellow tracer. The black colour arpund the tip of the bullet means that it is tracer, not AP. Where is says lspur (gelb) means its yellow.

Here is a link that should help you out.

http://users.swing.be/sw017995/792color.htm

Cam

But it is armor piercing as well. That is what SmK means. The red primer pocket is for AP. The painted bullet tip, as you correctly stated, it for tracer. Early ball ammo has a green primer, AP a red, late war ball a blue one and black is for the B Patrone and PmK round.

[phild]

I've still got a few hundred boxed rds of that ammo that I bought about 30-35 years ago. I finally got around to firing a box or two of it in the mid-70s and I recall that at least some, but I don't think all of the tracer still worked. It all may have actually been good but, firing in bright daylight and at fairly close range (50 to 100 yds) it was not that easy to see.

[r.blue]

Willi,
What is this stuff?
R.Blue

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[Willi Z.]

That is a very cool and rather rare round. It is a armor piercing phosphorous (incendiary) round that was high velocity and made for tropical use. Phosphor Geschoss mit Stahlkern.

The "v" is for high velocity, usually an aircraft round. The green ring on the bullet tip is the key.

The tropical round is weather sealed and you can ID these by the seal around the case mouth and the bullet.

[r.blue]

Willi,
Thanks for the information. That is pretty interesting.
R.Blue