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I got some 50's Yugo 8mm for SG (they had it as 70's) is this stuff safe to shoot in my TNW MG34? also what is the best ammo it use and were is the best place to get it?

personally I would stick with Romanian. I have heard of zero problems with it. Just seems to be more consistant. J and G sales has it as well as others.

I have heard mostly of problems with 50' yugo. 54' yugo having deep primers, hard primers. Not being consistant and so on. Most seem to run 70' yugo ok. I guess it just depends on what you are running it in and how tight or loose your chamber is. But I am just staying away from all yugo until the Romanin supply is gone.

Also, I have started checking every round visually and in a case headspace gage on all my surplus....even Lake City 7.62. I have found some that just fall into my case go/no go gage...but that was lake city stuff. not romanian 8mm. Just saying you should give all surplus a quick look.

TC

romanian is allmost gone.

gents,

Fired the MG34 at a military 1000M range this past WED and I did observe several split cases of the ROM 147g. I inspected the chambers of all three barrels I used and found no damage. Also I fired over 1k rounds and observed 2 cases split but did not look at all spent casings. Just some "user" information I thought you all might like.

I only shoot the Yugo in 1919's. There it is cool and the 1919 can suck up a hot or semi out of battery round. The 34 and 42 will prob take it too but why ruin hard to replace parts. My advice to to look to the seconday market for romanian. It's out there at shows and dealers. I'm buying my yugo (for the 1919) from a dealer not century.

I fire both - the Romanian seem like much higher quality - never have misfeeds/fires.

The '34 eats Yugo 8mm just fine. The '42 is very finicky with the Yugo ammo, so it only gets the premium blend

Put a Yugo case and a Romanian case side by side. The neck is shorter on the Romanian than the neck on the Yugo. Same with Turk 8mm. Why the Romanian has a shorter neck is anyone's guess. And what all that means, I don't really know.

I am going to get a case headspace gage and check my romy ammo. its good to check all surplus this way to see if it is within spec.

TC

I've never noticed any difference in chambering when using either of them in my M48. My M48 was rebarreled as the old barrel was a sewer pipe. We set the headspace tight and I have no problems chambering or extracting Yugo, Turk, or Romanian 8mm. None of the cases are deformed and can almost be reloaded without resizing.
My guess is that the Romanians shortened the neck for some arcane reason that we'll never know.

I would stick with the Romanian as those TNW's are pretty expensive and hard to find. Saving a few pennies per round is not worth the risk of damaging your gun on the 50's yugo.

I also heard that Interordnance now has Romanian 8MM back in stock...