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A close friend recently left me about 320 rounds of 7.92 JS (8mm German) and I am flummoxed as to who made it and where it came from. I suspect it may be Iranian, but not sure.
The brass is old, some still shiny, others have lost their luster, still others have that weird green metallic splotches of oxidized brass on them. The bullets are steel jacketed.
The headstamp has three characters I can't identify, but here goes: the top of the headstamp has the three characters: what looks to be a droopy armed "T", then a crescent with a small star between the horns, then a "C". Going counter-clockwise from there (from the left side of the op "T", it reads: <slash> 7.9 <slash> FS <slash> 19XX ,slash> back to the top three. The 19xx is because the years vary between 1935 and 1942.
A further clue is that 140 of these came in bandoliers, two with 70 rounds each. They're pretty crudely done in cotton fabric with flat pressed-steel buttons and are a medium blue/grey in color.
I know, I know, worthless without pictures, but what can I do? I'm itching to go to the range with a couple 98s, but I'm not going to move until I learn more about this ammo.
Is it good?
(I'm also posting this in the Curio and Relics forum)
The brass is old, some still shiny, others have lost their luster, still others have that weird green metallic splotches of oxidized brass on them. The bullets are steel jacketed.
The headstamp has three characters I can't identify, but here goes: the top of the headstamp has the three characters: what looks to be a droopy armed "T", then a crescent with a small star between the horns, then a "C". Going counter-clockwise from there (from the left side of the op "T", it reads: <slash> 7.9 <slash> FS <slash> 19XX ,slash> back to the top three. The 19xx is because the years vary between 1935 and 1942.
A further clue is that 140 of these came in bandoliers, two with 70 rounds each. They're pretty crudely done in cotton fabric with flat pressed-steel buttons and are a medium blue/grey in color.
I know, I know, worthless without pictures, but what can I do? I'm itching to go to the range with a couple 98s, but I'm not going to move until I learn more about this ammo.
Is it good?
(I'm also posting this in the Curio and Relics forum)
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