arisaka accuracy

[ipopum]

Well I am indeed blessed. I have a 99 that had the barrel set back and reamed to 300 sav. Not wanting that chambering I reamed it to

308 win. It shoots .308 well, but with .311 it is a very accurate rifle. It shoots either cast or jackets very well.

[bruce drake]

If its a T38, then their 6.5x50 chambered barrels were Metford-style rifled so they'll appear to have worn edges on their lands and grooves when it reality it was early polygonal rifling long before Glock thought about it... I load .268" sized cast bullets or .264 jacketed flatbase bullets for my three T38s and they'll outshoot many other modern rifles with iron sights.
If you own a Type I Carcano, they are chambered in 6.5x50 but have standard or what we call typical rifling. I use .264" jacketed (flatbase and boattail) and .266" cast boolits in my Type I and it shoots like a new barrel as well.
My T99 has a chrome-lined barrel and I used Hornady .312 Round nose jacketed and 200gr .314" roundnose lyman 314299 boolits and it easily stays within 3 inches despite the many years of use that the old vet who had it before me gave it as a farm gun with minimal care. I'd be comfortable using it as a deer or pig rifle in the Eastern woods.

Bruce