Remington Model 8

Cerberus Group · Jan 13, 2024

I'm loading for 35 Remington...brass is a tough find, but see now and then at gun shows.. sometimes for less than a painful price.

gmerkt · Jan 13, 2024

My first .35 Rem. was a Model 760 Gamemaster, bought in 1986. A little, local gun shop that I frequented had boxes of 20 primed cases for $2 a box. Also 8mm Mauser. The packaging was that used about 30 years earlier. I bought all they had. Then in 1987, I bought one each Model 8 and 81 but I was already set for ammo from having the Model 760.

The last time I bought .35 Rem. brass, the only I could find for sale was made by Hornady. Nos I see it's out of stock. When in stock, it's a dollar or more apiece.

Ura-Ki · Jan 13, 2024

I picked up a late Model 8 several years ago, in .30 Remington, thankfully, it came with 10 boxes of factory loaded ammo, and several pounds worth of brass. of that I am thankful, as its nearly impossible to find! Thanks to a number of kind hearted and kindred spirits here, I came into some unique tools that would make service super slick and pain free. That lead to a member here selling a later .300 Savage model 81 that had been converted to .308 Winchester by none other then Ed Shillin, which the member sold me for a VERY reasonable price, thank you again, you know who you are! And thus started my addiction of Remington Autoloading Rifles! I hate the 81's stock and found a E-bay Mod-8 replacement in super fancy wood, so I did the deed, and no one should care as it's NOT an original rifle due to the caliber conversion! Lemme tell ya, these old rifles in a Modern Cartridge are a wholly new experience, and .308 is pretty slick and snappy, but some how, the design absorbs it just fine, though it still slams ya pretty good!

P7M13 · Jan 14, 2024

Ura-Ki said:
some how, the design absorbs it just fine, though it still slams ya pretty good!

That captures the recoil of the Model 8 and 81 very well. I think it's the long stroke of the barrel sliding back in the shroud that takes the harshness out of the recoil. And yeah - you still feel it, but it's more like a push than a hit from a sledge hammer.

Spitpatch · Jan 14, 2024

Ura-Ki said:
I picked up a late Model 8 several years ago, in .30 Remington, thankfully, it came with 10 boxes of factory loaded ammo, and several pounds worth of brass. of that I am thankful, as its nearly impossible to find! Thanks to a number of kind hearted and kindred spirits here, I came into some unique tools that would make service super slick and pain free. That lead to a member here selling a later .300 Savage model 81 that had been converted to .308 Winchester by none other then Ed Shillin, which the member sold me for a VERY reasonable price, thank you again, you know who you are! And thus started my addiction of Remington Autoloading Rifles! I hate the 81's stock and found a E-bay Mod-8 replacement in super fancy wood, so I did the deed, and no one should care as it's NOT an original rifle due to the caliber conversion! Lemme tell ya, these old rifles in a Modern Cartridge are a wholly new experience, and .308 is pretty slick and snappy, but some how, the design absorbs it just fine, though it still slams ya pretty good!

"These old rifles in a Modern Cartridge" exists in the 81 with a .300 Savage: the first "short,fat,minimum taper, sharp shoulder" cartridge, "designed for efficiency" (just like all the latest heartthrobs), and the seminal prototype for the .308.

backwoodstripp · Jan 24, 2024

Spitpatch said:
The Remington Model 24 is a Browning design (same design as the later produced Browning SA). Just like a Remington Model 11 Shotgun is the "first" Browning Auto-5.

They were made from 1922 to 1935 (Yours may show a patent date of 1911).

Excellent guns, all.

OK thank you so much