Avoid Persian 8mm ammo!

[Pricate]

Its is a little better than Iranian. There were some really bad years of Turk ammo. Mine is 1942 and it is great. Only had one non fire and about 20 split cases out of a 1000. Like people where saying, if you are not going to reload; get some of the Romanian ammo in the tin. Its good stuff, less grains, (less kick) and it always go bang. IMO

[Sutcliffe]

Could it be the firing pin?

Reason I ask is this:
My Enfield doesn't seem to hit with enough force to ignite many of my Pakistani Cordite surplus from the 60's. My brother's No 5 hits the same stuff with enough to ignite every time.

[NOTABIKER]

did you spend any measurable amount of time researching that ammo? 10 seconds on google will tell you this stuff is a no-go.

YOU ARE SO STRICT

[2shotjoe]

Wollf spring.............you can still shoot those "duds" once you replace it.

[Rugersworld]

If you reload, pull the bullets, dump the powder into new case with new primer and seat bullet.
Its the primers that are the problem. I have done almost 450 rounds in the past like that after I bought that crap.

[6mmintl]

Seems to me that about 30-40% of these issues (double/light? strikes) can be cured by simple cleaning of internal bolt parts, polishing firing pin/spring wear/ma\ting surfaces, and checking firing pin protrusion.

Short "too Little" firing pin protrusion can be easily corrected by machining a few .001's" off of firing pin stop shoulder.

Seems everyone immediately goes to the "Replace firing pin with heavier spring" mode before performing a simple maintenance procedure.