I bought a bunch of .308 Prvi Partizan soft points back around before the beginning of the big run a couple of years ago, and found them to perform well in both my PTR and M1a, and considering the price for the quality brass and soft point bullets, I liked them a lot. The .308's, and the 8mm Mausers were sold out for about forever, and now that they are coming back, I was very excited to get several boxes of the 196 soft points for my two Mausers.

Last week, I finally got the shipment I was waiting for, and today I was excited to put the new 8mm rounds through my rifles. Both my G98 and M24/47 shot very, very low with them, in fact, almost impossibly low. Both rifles are dead on at 100 yards with Romanian surplus rounds, and I was blowing up 2 liter pop bottles at 80 yards easily with 196 grain Sellier and Bellot SPCE rounds just recently. Today, when shooting at a homemade target that was 24x36 inch wrapping paper with a marker made center, the bullets were barely hitting the bottom of the paper with both rifles, aiming at center, from a resting position on a table. At 25 yards, they were 4 inches low.

I know the 150 grain surplus and 196's from S&B are higher velocity, but that wouldn't explain that kinda drop at 25 and 100 yards. I'm trying to guess it was the snow and light refraction, in combination with some of the elevation difference with the 100 yard target up in the hills. I fired a few other rifles and carbines to see how they did, and the results were a little odd this afternoon, but nothing like the Serbian rounds out of the two Mausers.

I was just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with either the ammunition, rifles, or iron sights on said rifles, or any phenomena similar to this.