Egyptian Hakim 8mm Mauser?

Well saiga308 Hakims are interesting rifles, @ $850 I would say buy if you get to properly "fondle" it first , the only downside would be 8mm Mauser not being cheap or ubiquitous as it once was.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Perhaps, but even the gentleman in the video uses it as a charging handle several times. Also, it may be possible to manipulate the dust cover and bolt quite easily when the hammer is cocked but I defy anyone to charge a Hakim with the hammer down using only those little serrations......

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The "gentleman" in the video is not quite as smart as he thinks he is.

saiga308 said:

fedarm got steel case new ammo for 29 cents each
https://fedarm.com/product/fedarm-7-92x57-js-197-gr-fmjsc-steel-core-8mm-mauser/
theres a lot of old Corrosive surplus brass for 30 cents a round hitting the market

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Great stuff if you like click....tick.....tock....tick....tock.....bang....maybe.

Then cleaning corrosive in an automatic.....sorry I am far too lazy.

Just reload for it.....I already reload for the G43, so why would I want to bother with corrosive in anything.....same with 54R....reload already, PSL and SVT....I still have spam cans sitting....every once and a while I go....you know I should shoot that stuff.....then I sober up and go why.

It is not accurate.....think minute of basketball (at best) to minute of softball with most modern loads, or minute of baseball at best with my home rolled.....so why shoot this corrosive stuff....it is just noise. I am not going to hit pop bottles at 100 with them like I can with the others.

What is your point in shooting....to put little holes where you want them....or to make noise. Don't get me wrong making noise can be fun....but it does get old pretty quick.....now the little holes where you want them....that is very different.

fpgt72 said:

Great stuff if you like click....tick.....tock....tick....tock.....bang....maybe.

Then cleaning corrosive in an automatic.....sorry I am far too lazy.

Just reload for it.....I already reload for the G43, so why would I want to bother with corrosive in anything.....same with 54R....reload already, PSL and SVT....I still have spam cans sitting....every once and a while I go....you know I should shoot that stuff.....then I sober up and go why.

It is not accurate.....think minute of basketball (at best) to minute of softball with most modern loads, or minute of baseball at best with my home rolled.....so why shoot this corrosive stuff....it is just noise. I am not going to hit pop bottles at 100 with them like I can with the others.

What is your point in shooting....to put little holes where you want them....or to make noise. Don't get me wrong making noise can be fun....but it does get old pretty quick.....now the little holes where you want them....that is very different.

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Ya, I learned my lesson with surplus '40s Turk 8mm. Looked ok on the outside, but fully half were misfires and my poor Mauser was covered in rust BY THE TIME I GOT HOME FROM THE RANGE!

Never again.

Of course, that incident gave me the push to dump all my weird milsurp chamberings. Got a .308 Mauser and .410 Enfield now. Dont miss the Carcano at all. Kept the Arisaka, but dont ever plan on shooting it again. Sold the Mosin, dont miss it. All the others are good ol' USGI.

Might pick up some of those Keystone .22 mini-milsurps if that bug strikes again.

I too wish I had bought one when they first came out. However if my memory doesn't fail me the ones I saw were in 30-06 not 8 mm Mauser.

Charlie Martinez said:

I too wish I had bought one when they first came out. However if my memory doesn't fail me the ones I saw were in 30-06 not 8 mm Mauser.

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Dont believe they ever made Hakims in .30-06, just 8mm Mauser (although the Ljungman was in 6.5 Swede).

You're probably thinking of the FN49, which was also used by the Egyptians in 8mm, and .30-06 by Belgium and Luxembourg.

silvermane_1 said:

Don't you mean Garand thumb there troy fairweather?

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Nope, once he caught his thumb in his Garand, it became a grand thumb.
If the Hakim slams shut with as much gusto as it chunks brass, believe I'd almost rather get an M1 thumb.....almost.

Regards,
hps

That's why you always charge of with the lever. If done right it can be pretty fast. I miss the svt40 and dragonof dad had.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Ya, I learned my lesson with surplus '40s Turk 8mm. Looked ok on the outside, but fully half were misfires and my poor Mauser was covered in rust BY THE TIME I GOT HOME FROM THE RANGE!

Never again.

Of course, that incident gave me the push to dump all my weird milsurp chamberings. Got a .308 Mauser and .410 Enfield now. Dont miss the Carcano at all. Kept the Arisaka, but dont ever plan on shooting it again. Sold the Mosin, dont miss it. All the others are good ol' USGI.

Might pick up some of those Keystone .22 mini-milsurps if that bug strikes again.

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Oh Carcano is one of my top rifles....Another goofy flavor I load for. And going from PP to my home rolled with the hornady bottle nosed bullet really brought the rifle to light.

It is really a fantastic caliber to shoot....and as accurate as anything else.

I have not found a 6.5 jap that I am in love with yet....the right gun has not crossed my path, but my 7.7 (load for that as well) is right on par with 3006 and shoots every bit as nice....plus that type 99 with the swiss army knife type stuff they hung on it is just cool...mono pod, AA sights....that is just neat stuff.

Mosins again IMHO all get lumped together....you have such a wide range of condition the gun could be in....you can have a good one or one that is just horrid....it really depended on how Olga packed it away and if her mind was on her job at hand or wondering if Stalin was turning her husbands head into a table lamp.

7.5 French is another fantastic caliber....and the guns are again some of the most robust and really (again IMHO) the best bolt battle rifle ever made.....and think about it, it was the last one developed, they could study all the lessons of others....same with the caliber....MAS36 is about as simple and solider proof as you can make it...bolt is about as simple as you can make it, and it is just a block of steel. They shoot well as well.

Eh I ramble again. to tell the truth my 'merican stuff has not seen the light of day in years....I so much more enjoy being different, unique.....I will show up to a cmp match with something off the wall vs a garand.....everyone has that.

troy fairweather said:

That's why you always charge of with the lever. If done right it can be pretty fast. I miss the svt40 and dragonof dad had.

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SVT was so far ahead of the garand it is not even funny.....real detachable mag...yea that never really became standard did it.....adjustable gas system....yea....with soviet ammo I can get that.

The 40 is accurate enough to do the job it was built to do and strong enough to be serviceable...38 was a bit iffy.

I am really pretty anti russian, but give credit where credit is due SVT40 is a rifle ahead of its time, and of the first gen "full power" rifles it really outsteps the garand.

I will dawn my fire proof suit now.