Help ID this Chinese 7.92x57 Ammo

[t44e6]

Please help me ID this Chinese? 7.92x57 ammunition. I have a sealed 500 rd case, and about 300 rds in loose white cardboard boxes of 25. I purchased it around 20 years ago. Red lacquer sealed case mouth, no visible sealer on primers. Possibly light clear sealer. Green painted wood cases with rope handles, sealed can inside. I bought it a long time ago, back in the mid 80s most likely. Functioned well in FN49, Hakim, 98 Mausers. No misfires, seemed fairly consistent as I recall.

[joem]

I was not aware the china made any 8mm ammo.

[t44e6]

I think it is WW2 era. The Chinese used large numbers of indigenous and German made Gewehr 88s Gewehr 98s, and some German Karabiner 98k rifles. Winchester and Kynoch made ammo under contract, this looks indigenous.

[Art]

I think it is WW2 era. The Chinese used large numbers of indigenous and German made Gewehr 88s Gewehr 98s, and some German Karabiner 98k rifles. Winchester and Kynoch made ammo under contract, this looks indigenous.

Correct. After WW I the chinese adopted the German Standard Model 7.92x57mm Mauser as their shoulder weapon. The final version in Chinese service was the Type 24 or M1935 Mauser. This was a very high quality Chinese produced short rifle. It was also called the Chang Kai-Shek model. The Chinese didn't have the production capacity to produce these rifles in anything like the quantities they needed but over 600,000 Type 24s were manufactured between 1935 and 1945. The last known use of these rifles in combat by the Chinese Army was in the Korean War. After that they were supposed to be placed in reserve. The Chinese not only couldn't produce sufficient rifles in the 30's and 40's, they also couldn't come close to producing enough ammo hence 144e6s correct statement as to imported ammunition from their allies.

[Tuna]

I think the head stamp is 79 for the caliber of 7.9 or 8mm. The .671. is the plant number and the 52.9 is for 09/52 when the rounds were made.

[musketshooter]

Oyster Bay industries imported it about 20 years ago. I had several green painted wood cases of it. it was good ammo, but the necks were not annealed.