![]() They sent it back and published an article about the 2 different calibers used in Arisakas and warned conversions should start with a measurement of the barrel diameter. That's when they realized the Arisaka was a Type 38, not a Type 99. The bullets were stretched and measured 6.5 mm in diameter. ![]() They shot a few more into a bullet catch and examined them. Then they noticed the bullet holes were unusually elongated. ![]() The Chinese also converted type 38 long rifles to 7.62x39 also, but the most popular conversion was from 6. ![]() After they received it, they too experienced the key-holing effect of each shot. I recommend everyone to read that as well, very interesting. They were baffled too and asked the smith to send the rifle for examination. Unable to figure out what went wrong, he wrote to the NRA Technical Dept about it. All the shots tumbled and keyholed the target. It all looked good until the smith tried to zero it in. Gunsmith reamed out the chamber, mounted a scope and replaced the furniture with a nice Monte Carlo stock. A gunsmith had a customer who wanted to covert his Arisaka into a hunting rifle chambered in 30-06. There was one interesting story in American Rifleman about an Arisaka conversion done in the 1960s. Sent from my Galaxy S10 5G using Tapatalk I've heard type 99s being converted but never type 38s.
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