Mk42gunner
01-25-2011, 12:13 PM
Reading DoctorBill's thread on his 6.5X>257Roberts got me interrested in my Type 38 that I had never done anything with.
I had a partial box of 7X57 brass, a set of 7X57 dies and a set of 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser dies. I first decapped in the 7X57 dies, then necked down the brass in the 6.5 die. The case would not fully chamber, but would go in far enough that I knew the chamber had been modified fromthe original 6.5 Arisaka.
AS I was contemplating things, I happened to see the box that my .300-06 dies are in. I thought I would try it, so I removed the decapping stem aand ran the lightly lubed case into the smallbase die. Sucess, the case now entered the chamber and the bolt locked down.
I tried to fire form one with 4.5 grains of W231 with the case full of Cream of Wheat, it didn't do well, the case split in two places at the shoulder. The next time I used 33 grains of Reloder 15 with a 120 gr Speer seated into the lands. That worked.
Now all I have to do is get some sights on it, it is drilled for a receiver sight, along with several extra holes (Swiss cheese comes to mind) in the receiver ring and bridge.
I had posted before that it has a Bishop stock on it, I was wrong, it is a Fajen. This carbine will make a dandy little brush gun when I am done with it.
Question, how long were the barrels on these originally? Mine is 19" right now, and may have to be shortened, it had a mud dauber nest in the last inch of the bore when I got it.
Robert
I had a partial box of 7X57 brass, a set of 7X57 dies and a set of 6.5X55 Swedish Mauser dies. I first decapped in the 7X57 dies, then necked down the brass in the 6.5 die. The case would not fully chamber, but would go in far enough that I knew the chamber had been modified fromthe original 6.5 Arisaka.
AS I was contemplating things, I happened to see the box that my .300-06 dies are in. I thought I would try it, so I removed the decapping stem aand ran the lightly lubed case into the smallbase die. Sucess, the case now entered the chamber and the bolt locked down.
I tried to fire form one with 4.5 grains of W231 with the case full of Cream of Wheat, it didn't do well, the case split in two places at the shoulder. The next time I used 33 grains of Reloder 15 with a 120 gr Speer seated into the lands. That worked.
Now all I have to do is get some sights on it, it is drilled for a receiver sight, along with several extra holes (Swiss cheese comes to mind) in the receiver ring and bridge.
I had posted before that it has a Bishop stock on it, I was wrong, it is a Fajen. This carbine will make a dandy little brush gun when I am done with it.
Question, how long were the barrels on these originally? Mine is 19" right now, and may have to be shortened, it had a mud dauber nest in the last inch of the bore when I got it.
Robert