I got my 8X56R brass today it seems like I have been waiting forever but it's only been a little over a year. Brass seems very good. Loaded some up tonight with cast bullets will take the 95's out Monday and try them. now I can throw away the berdan cases I converted to boxer, those original 20 cases are down to 11 survivers. I was keeping the pressure way down too. I am using a Lee mold I polished out to 331 and shooting them unsized.
Now I have to make some cases for my one original 95 that was not converted to 8x56R.

Did anyone else get their brass in?

Mine is on the way. I thought they also got in the 8x50R brass?

What powder & charge you thinking of using?

The 8X50R that Graf is selling is for the French Lebel rifle. I have an Austrian Model 95 in the original Mannlicher 8X50R. Most of the rifles were rechambered to the 8X56 Hungarian after WWI. But a few fell through the cracks or were otherwise "Liberated" and are in the original Chambering. I seem to have a love for odd chamberings. If you look at my reloaded cases you will see a lot of paint on the case heads to show they aren't the original head stamp.

At one time guns with obsolete chamberings could be bought for a song. Now there are to many "collectors" and Bertrum and a couple of other companies are making odd brass a dollar or two a pop.