A review from an Australian forum 2012:
This is an interesting rifle that blends a lot of different ideas. It has a Model 70 Style bolt shroud with 3 position safety, an A-Bolt style bolt release, a Steyr-style set single stage trigger, Tikka style polymer bottom metal and detachable magazine. Rather than being blued, the metal parts seem to be coated with a hard ceracote-style finish.
The bolt is a push-feed type with recessed bolt face, plunger ejector and very wide hook extractor. It is very smooth to operate. The bolt handle is quite long and very easy to grab which has been one of my complaints about Zastava bolt handles in the past. As with CZs, this rifle has a high bolt lift, and I think Medium mounts would be the lowest possible because it will be hard for the bolt handle to clear the ocular bell otherwise.
Superficially the M808 bolt reminds me of an older style 579 Sako style, except it has three lugs - two arranged in conventional fashion and a third engaging in a slot cut in the rear receiver bridge, just forward of the bolt handle, a-la Mauser 98. I once had a Voere Titan menor which had two rear bolt lugs and none up front - so there is some similarity there. The bolt has two large cut-outs on its underside to vent gases into the magazine well in the event of a case rupture. The bolt is a very neat fit with some fairly minimal tolerances once it is set in its race-ways.
The trigger is a push-forward single set trigger. Used normally it breaks cleanly at about 1.2kg on my rifle. In set mode, the trigger pull is light but not feather-light like some.
The stock is a striking piece of I guess Turkish walnut, and it is reasonably well executed. A Sako it ain't - but it is pretty well executed and obviously hand finished. The rifle is pillar bedded and the barrel is free-floated - I don't need to do a thing to it.
The barrel is a 26" tube, which is surprisingly light and well balanced. After a good clean the bore is as mirror-smooth as I have seen, with quite shallow rifling. I guess this is a button-rifled barrel, and it looks like it has been hand-lapped.
The magazine is a polymer two-piece number. The bottom plate of the mag does protrude below the lines of the stock, but this is a very simple and strong magazine. It fits five of my long .270 handloads with about 4mm to spare. Feeding from the mag is smooth and ejection is adequate without being flung far and wide.
Summing up, for such a physically long rifle, this is a very light and easy to carry package. It has nice wood, the long barrel will get the most out of a round like the .270. I think it will be a very strong and accurate rifle. Looking forward to some range work and some hunting with it.
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/9738408/Zastava_M808_reviews
There is some additional babbling from other forums and a couple of review blogs but nothing significant as far as actual handling. There is also a Youtube video from Mongolia of all places. Not much visual info and the background music of awful.
