The fine old lady can shoot

I was apprehensive taking the old custom Commission rifle out to shoot being the fact that the gun is such a nice rifle. But after sitting down, double checking the bore, slugging it for a second time, still coming out with .318", checking the chamber with a dummy round even though it was listed as 8mm Mauser. I ordered up some .318" that are 196 grain jacketed soft points and loaded it with 36.0 grains of IMR-4064 with puts it around 2,000 fps. With the double set triggers I got nearly a 1 inch group at 30 yards. I never had to touch the sights and the second sight blade puts the rounds two inches taller. Even with the light load, it's got a bit of a punch, the gun might only weigh 7 pounds at best.
I also got an original clip for it and it feeds perfectly fine. I'm going to try it out at 100 yards next after I load up some more rounds, but I will say one thing, this thing would be great to hunt whitetail with this fall.

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That is a great looking rifle, congratulations.

I use to have a Chinese Mauser 88 Hanyang with the .318 bore.
It liked the heavier bullets , and did fairly well out to 200 yards.
My rifle by far didn't look as nice as your rifle.

From a whitetail hunting stand point with that load it is just a very, very, very fancy 35 Rem...should do as well as she looks in the woods.

I think you could make meat with it.

but but...the deer are armor plated with kelvar vests!!!!!!!![smilie=l:


nice rifle and nice shootin!!!!!!

No reason they shouldn't shoot if everything is good. My 9 X 57 Haenel/Rasch does that at 75 yards with boring regularity. I regularly shoot rifles a lot nicer than like our sporters on the Commission rifle., Dave.

Great Job on the load workup and shooting, thanks for sharing.

Very Nice looking gun, that can perform..

That is a beautiful 88 Commission Rifle. I have a couple of the military version and they love the 8mm Karabiner bullet that drops at close to 240 grains from a Lee mold (available from Midsouth and known as the 215gr 8mm Kar). This bullet has a 0.230" meplat and is very effective.

Good looking Commission rifle!

That's a fine rifle!