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[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 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.

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[–] SayTan 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

My mausers got new barrels and became better things, albeit I bought them as bare Brno war production actions.

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[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

A point well taken. She has had three one shot kills on moose with that 8mm -06 though, and if I had that gun rebarreled, I expect she would club me to death with it!