WTK: Problems with 1953 dated Yugo 8mm Ammo?

[medved]

Has anyone had any bad experiences with 1953 dated Yugo 8mm heavy ball? Had fired about 45 rounds when one of my buddies said not to use it in my MG's. He said they had excessive primer leakage (which did occur) and he had several bad head failures. Thankfully I did not. Has any one else had problems with this ammo.
TIA

[Brass Scrounger]

IIRC, it was Yugo HB that trashed a C&R MG42 at Knob Creek a few years back.

[bart]

we shot that stuff in our mauser bolt actions every other round didnt fire. the ones that did fire were mostly like delayed a split second.ended up makin em into dummy rounds and cliping them into mg belts for display.i should probably burry the rest of the crap.

[MauserMatt]

The problem is the primers are seated too far into the case.. The firing pin of my GEW98 Mauser only sets off a handful out of each box...

I'm hoping when I get the '42 built the firing pin will go deep enough to hit the primer.... Otherwise I'll have wasted money on the 3 cases I have... I need to pick up some Romanian..........

[FTB1-SS]

I would only the Rom. steel cases in my SA MG42, save the yugo for mauser's just to be safe.

[medved]

Thanks for the feedback on the ammo. Have 4 cases of that junk.

[M1 Tanker]

I've got some 1955 stuff I think is Yugo. Comes in a metal can with 15 round paper boxes....this the same stuff?

[bart]

sounds like the same stuff these boxes are 15 rnd on strippers w funky writing last line says cep.38/51 next is a star and 11-1952. ya end up tearing off little pieces of the box until they finally open real pain unless you use a knife.hey maybe we could make strange art with it....er something.