Originally Posted by djugurba

My dad had an 8mm Mauser that had been given to my grandfather by a buddy who removed it from his opponent on the field of battle! It had a few interesting mods, most noteably a couple of holes drilled in the hand-hewn stock for holding bullets while one deformed the lead tip. yikes.

That thing kicked with tremendous force, bruising my teenage shoulder for a week every november growing up... Then we started small game hunting and I got the ancient 16ga. bolt action beastie. I couldn't catch a break!