Why did 8mm Mauser never catch on in the US? Even .303 British

>>31329627
Jews.

>>31329627
It got all shot up. Just like .303 did, .30-06 will and pretty soon 7.62x54r

>>31329642
>>31329659
this.
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It used to be relatively popular, but once the surplus market dried up (both ammo and most rifles bar Yugos), people just lost interest. It sits in the same place as .30-06, but without the century of being ingrained in the collective Fudd psyche.

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>>31329627
>Why did 8mm Mauser never catch on in the US?
Because pretty much everyone using it was in Central Europe, and they by-and-large stopped using it after 1945 because reasons. Portugal, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia where the only ones left using it, and they gradually shifted to other calibers because NATO and WAR-PAC. Yugoslavia held onto it as a DMR cartridge until the early 2000s at least.

>>31329627
>Go and check online prices.
>What's this?
>Steel cased .303 brit
>Around 40¢ a round

When did this happen /k/ and why did you not tell me?

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>>31329659
>30-06 will be all shot up

>>31329800

because no one shoots .303

>>31329824
But...but...I do...

>>31329659
30-06 is an immensely popular fudd round that still has tons of domestic production, it's not gonna get 'shot up'

>>31329659
>>31329821
>>31329847
I think he meant surplus would be shot up and for all intents and purposes it really is.

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>>31329824
I do

Because .30-06 does essentially the same thing out of a similar Mauser action (1903A3)

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>>31329824
As do I