[–] shitpostfacto1 ago
Supposedly and surprisingly, the good ones were about the toughest military bolt action of their era. The guy must have thought he had the 7.7mm.
[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yes, the only way I can imagine it happening would be just sloppiness and assumptions. My wife hunts with a Mauser 8mm-06 and loves it. That cartridge came about when guys brought home Mausers and couldn't get 8x57 ammo. .30-06 brass was plentiful, so they had the chambers reamed out with an 06 reamer and came up with 8mm bullets. It is a pretty painless wildcat, just run the brass through the 8mm-06 resizing die, no fancy forming or multiple steps. With the 7.7 Arisaka, it seems like the best option would be just to form cases from .30-06 brass, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried a 7.7-06 wildcat. As far as the 06 reamer in the 6.5, that had to have been just a screwup. I saw a couple of 6.5-.257 Roberts Arisakas in a pawn shop a couple of years back. That was probably a work around to poor ammo availability just like the 8mm-06. If they came with dies, I might have bit, it probably wasn't a bad caliber and they were dirt cheap.
[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No doubt! I understand P.O. Ackley did some blowup tests with Arisakas and was impressed with their ability to swage down oversize bullets without coming apart. I would hate to be the poor slob that fired a .30-06 with a 6.5 bore though!
[–] zaitcev 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I imagine he meant to re-chamber a 7.7 Arisaka and didn't know that 6.5 ones existed.
[–] SayTan 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
An actual machinist would measure things, though.