Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France

[PMangenot]

Hi everybody

Just some photos of this lovely Model 8 .32 Caliber I found in France

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[PMangenot]

Others pictures

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[PMangenot]

The last ones

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That's all folks !

Have a good day

[Hibby83]

Looks great! Thanks for sharing. Hard to beat sight setup for accuracy and ease of adjustment.

Wonder the story on how it made it's way over the ocean. Neat to ponder theories!

[PMangenot]

Thanks for looking...

No idea when and how it comes in France.

For sure, I would like too for knowing the story...

[Roger]

Sir, that is a very nice looking M8 Remington. It would definitely be interesting to know the story of how and why it got to France. Have you gotten a chance to see if the model eight recoil spring will work in your FN? I’m just curious.
Thanks for your time
Roger

[PMangenot]

Hello

Yes, I have tried my .32 Rem Buffer Spring from my model 8 in my Browning FN1900 .35 caliber. It works just fine ! Remington Core Lokt 200 Grns cartridges and some personal reloads up to 2100fps with Sierra pro-hunter 200grns and Vectan Tubal 3000

Here is my Browning shooting with Model 8 .32 Buffer Spring

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I have made some video and I can see that the barrel make the total travel with the bolt, which can't be made just in pushing a brass rod trough the barrel against the bolt face. So it means to me that the Buffer Spring go probably to complete compression during the shoot. Perhaps my .32 Buffer Spring is less strong than a original .35. My 32 is 2,11 long, 0,87 as diam ext. and 0,61 as diam int.

Here is my Rem Model 8 32 Buffer Spring. I have to find a other BS...

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Thanks for looking

[MinnesotaDan]

Thank you for sharing the photos of that nice Model 8. It certainly would be interesting to know how it got to France.

[81police]

super cool sir! Thank you for sharing the photos and story.

Curious, on the jacket head I see two codes stamped...could you share those ? The ones stamped at the location below...
https://thegreatmodel8.net/?page_id=450

[PMangenot]

here it is

Don't know what it means

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[81police]

Cool stuff...

LW = rifle manufactured in February, 1928
EY 3 = returned for factory repair October, 1930

[PMangenot]

Thanks for the info

Pascal MANGENOT