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Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 9:58 am
by PMangenot
Hi everybody
Just some photos of this lovely Model 8 .32 Caliber I found in France
- Remington Mod 8-1.jpeg (1.42 MiB) Viewed 39809 times
- Remington Mod 8-2.jpeg (1.46 MiB) Viewed 39809 times
- Remington Mod 8-3.jpeg (1.55 MiB) Viewed 39809 times
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 9:59 am
by PMangenot
Others pictures
- Remington Mod 8-4.jpeg (1.79 MiB) Viewed 39806 times
- Remington Mod 8-5.jpeg (1.42 MiB) Viewed 39806 times
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 10:01 am
by PMangenot
The last ones
- Remington Mod 8-7.jpeg (839.68 KiB) Viewed 39806 times
- Remington Mod 8-10.jpeg (1.18 MiB) Viewed 39806 times
- Remington Mod 8-11.jpeg (1.25 MiB) Viewed 39806 times
That's all folks !
Have a good day
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 1:52 pm
by 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!
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2026 2:58 pm
by PMangenot
Thanks for looking...
No idea when and how it comes in France.
For sure, I would like too for knowing the story...
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 3:58 am
by 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
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 8:38 am
by 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...
- IMG_7899.jpg (1.59 MiB) Viewed 39170 times
Thanks for looking
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:13 am
by MinnesotaDan
Thank you for sharing the photos of that nice Model 8. It certainly would be interesting to know how it got to France.
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 4:54 pm
by 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
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 4:14 am
by PMangenot
here it is
Don't know what it means
- IMG_7979 2.jpg (1.42 MiB) Viewed 36377 times
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 11:21 am
by 81police
Cool stuff...
LW = rifle manufactured in February, 1928
EY 3 = returned for factory repair October, 1930
Re: Some pictures of my Rem Mod 8 in France
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2026 2:33 pm
by PMangenot
Thanks for the info
Pascal MANGENOT