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Really glad you decided to start posting, welcome to the board and thanks for the pictures. You have some very interesting projects going. When you get the .25-35 finished, you'll sure have a prime piece that many will be covetous of.

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We really need to see some pictures to do a good job evaluating what you have. Is there any engraving on the metal? The sling rewinding into the stock sounds very French to me. I think that is a feature of French shotguns of the period.

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Needs pictures...

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Welcome P38buff! Sounds like you're well on your way to experiencing one of the great firearms genius JMB"s greatest creations (in our humble opinions), the Remington autoloading rifle. Please keep us posted and don't be stingy with the pictures. My dad owned two Model 97s which he used to chas...

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My impression is that "back in the day" people were hunting game with calibers which we now would consider to be inadequate. Today, we expect to kill an animal with one shot, often from some kind of stand. The whole idea of the Model 8 was 4 or 5 fast shots. I have seen several references ...

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Welcome to the forum, Joe.

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Here are a couple of older threads on the subject.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1371

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=234&hilit=Hornaday

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Hey Fred, Welcome to the forum! I'm sure your latest acquisition will surely bring some interesting comments on the firing line. Good Luck! and let us see some pix soon. W

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Thanks Roger, He also says he has a 8 (or 81?) in 7.62x39. Which I think is a very interesting conversion. I asked him to post pictures and tell us about it.

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Picture seen in the Sunday NYT book review section today.

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Many wonderful holiday greetings to you and we wish you a Merry Christmas! Let's see some pix of this new purchase of yours!

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Merry Christmas to all!

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Love those old 'uns. How's it shoot?

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I really like my .30 caliber Remington Model 8 and was disappointed when they stopped manufacture of .30 in (was it?) 1997. I like the .30 Rem "Accelerator" idea. My own "pet" would be a Remington Model 8 chambering the 6mm Niedner Rimless Magnum cartridge, which was .25 Rem neck...

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I know what you're going through. Hang in there. The pain never really goes away, but it gets manageable. Don't ever forget that you did the right thing by her.

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But it might be someone's "cup of tea".

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread. ... owning-BPS

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My first Model 8, bought it at a gunshow in Abilene Texas about 1993, repaired by a Hutchins gun repair in Old Town, Maine shortly thereafter. The checkering is almost completely worn smooth.

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Anybody know of a conversion to 6.8 SPC yet?

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Bolt head is different..

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Wow....slo mo "double shuffle". That's what you call, looooong recoil.

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From the website Municion. General Don Gonzalo had a Remington 8 or 81 and had some ammo whipped up for it back in '45. Made out of 8mm Mauser cartridges. El primer lote fabricado en España de este cartucho fue en 1945 por encargo del General D.Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. En España estos cartuchos se d...

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Thank you for this.... it's a very good video with lots of interesting information. I enjoyed it.

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I was looking on the IAA website and their collection of catalogs. I discovered in the Remington 1911-12 catalog that Remington used to offer "pointed bullets" in their .25 Remington, .30 Remington and .35 Remington cartridges. I knew about the .25 Remington with the .101 grain pointed bul...

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Briggs engraved 8F grade .32 caliber rifle is same one shown in close-up on page 104 of Henwood's book. Note the unusual folding cocking knob.

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Losing a beloved pet like that just tears your heart out. Hearing about your experience...I am just so sorry about your circumstance. Just know that tonight there are many people prayin' for you and your dog.

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Stevens 425 Hi-Power rifle was chambered in .35 Remington too, and of course the FN Patent 1900 carabine automatique, though they called it a 9mm

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Short article about the .38 Remington with technical drawing of cartridge in issue no. 473 of the IAA journal.

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H4198 may be too fast. You may be seeing signs of excessive pressure.

http://www.remingtonsociety.com/forums/ ... f=5&t=4249

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I went to a gunshow in Snyder Texas and a guy had a table with a Model 8 and a Model 81 on it. I looked at the guns for quite a while, thinking that these were the coolest old guns I'd ever seen. I determined then to find out as much as I could about the Remington Model 8 and 81. I looked in the old...

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Here:

http://thegreatmodel8.remingtonsociety.com/?page_id=450

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I love waffles. I had waffles for breakfast today.

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What kind of cartridge does your Model 8 shoot? You say a rounded cartridge .32? Do you happen to mean a .32 Remington cartridge? If you mean .32 Remington cartridge, then the cartridge companies haven't made .32 Remington since 1977. And while that cartridge is scarce now, you can sometimes find so...

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Wonderful photos evocative of how beloved some of these guns came to be by those who have owned them. Man, I sure like "Lil Partner". The stories....

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I am very impressed. Those are a bunch of lucky kids. They have a group of caring adults that interested in their education and well being enough to go out of their way to provide what is obviously a wonderful day of shooting and fellowship and fun. I'm glad I saw those pictures. I hope it inspires ...

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Oh Wow! That is one strack looking FN 1900. Very fine. It doesn't get much better than that one.

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Welcome to the forum! It's nice to have someone to talk to with an interest in firearms and a European prospective to add to the mix. If there is any way we can be of service, please let us know.

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Saw this interesting Model 8 at the Midland Horseshoe arena gun show today. This is not a Peace Officer Equipment Company detachable 15 round magazine. It looks like somebodies attempt to make a similar type of magazine system, but without the ability to detach it from the receiver. The barrel is al...

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price and cost of shipping?

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Merry Christmas to the brotherhood of Model 8 and 81 aficionados.

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From what I understand, a late Remington collector from New Jersey had these and supposedly he bought them from the FBI years ago. These are 160 grain metal covered.... are they not? I don't know who got them after he passed, but I remember they did sell. http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h224/Hardr...

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We need a real expert to really chime in here, but my general impression is that these were primarily for law enforcement purposes.

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The wood looks nice and I really like the rare "semi-military" butt plate. On taking delivery, I wouldn't be surprised if the left side were full of extra holes or badly scarred with rust considering the low price and the 25% restocking fee. But it will be a good shooter in any event...tha...

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http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread. ... ost1908662

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Thanks for the tip. The wood sure looks pretty nice overall.

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Here's me with a thermometer that Packmule raffled off.

and my favorite 1919 vintage rifle...

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This purports to be a 1940s prototype of a Remington 4 shot semi-automatic rifle in .300 Savage. I don't have any more information than that...does any one else know about this fascinating looking gun? Comes from http://milpas.cc/rifles/ A site with quite a few interesting guns. This is one I've nev...

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Would it be possible to re-chamber a Model 8 to fire .401 WSL?

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OMG. inlaid with what? plastic? I usually don't mind the 1950s white line stuff, but this is too much by far.

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Good to have you here. This is a really good crew of guys, very knowledgeable. $100 is the best price I've heard about on a Model 8 in a long time. Got to ask for pictures on this one.

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