Shooting range find...

[abunaitoo]

Found these at the range this past weekend.
Didn't see who/what shot it. Found them while looking for brass.
I'm thinking they were shot out of a Mosin Nagant that might have been rechambered to .308.
Maybe they were shot out of somekind of .308 rifle.
A friend at the range told me that a while ago, he saw a guy doing almost the same thing. He had somehow gotten a rifle.He didn't know anything about shooting. Someone told him it was a 7.62 caliber. He went to the gunshop and bought some 7.62x51 (.308).
My friend noticed because the rifle wouldn't fire all the time. The guy would have to reload the rounds to get it to fire. When my friend saw that it was the wrong ammo, he told the guy that. The guy said he was told it was a 7.62 and that's what he has. Friend didn't want to argue with him and just walked away.
I once caught a guy shooting .308 out of a 30.06. He didn't know the shells weren't suppose to come out like that.
Look at the pictures and let me know what you think. Steal case is just for comparison.
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[dsbock]

What's the headstamp on the split brass?

David

[Taylor]

I think you may be on track.308 shot from a mosin, Darwin does't take vacations,even in Hi.

[Taylor]

...think I should have took a better look at the pics,those don't look like 308 brass.

[imashooter2]

There's a rim on that brass... 30/30 head stamp?

[GhostHawk]

That was my guess.

[Tackleberry41]

Theres a you tube video of the gun gripes guys shooting 30-30 out of a mosin, split every one of them. Would a 308 even chamber and fire? Doubt a fired 308 would extract at all. What about 303?

[Moonie]

30-30 in a 303? That is what it looks like to me.

[dagger dog]

"Friend didn't want to argue with him and just walked away".

Yeah I would have walked away too FAR FAR AWAY !

[JeffinNZ]

Looks like 54R fired in a 8X56R.

[abunaitoo]

What's the headstamp on the split brass?

David

4 Graf and 1 Norma

[abunaitoo]

Sorry guys.
There 7.62x54R brass.

[Mauser48]

If it is 7.62x54r headstamp and its that brand brass it must have been reloaded. Probably too hot of loads fired too many times.

[Dan Cash]

Looks like 54R fired in a 8X56R.

+1. What he said.

[hardware]

No pictures at the moment, and the brass may still be somewhere at Badwater Bill's house, but I once found about five rounds of .270 brass at the range that looked to have been fired in some sort of magnum, one side on every cartridge was ballooned out so far we were both rather impressed that none of them had actually ruptured.

[MtGun44]

I think Jeff has got it. A straight pull Steyr M1895 in 8x56R with 7.62 Russian ammo.
At least the pressure will be low with a .329+ typical groove diam! Bet the accuracy
was pretty dismal.

People are really pretty dangerous, apparently immune to getting correct
ammo info on their guns.