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I saw a wartime Japanese film of a soldier operating an Arisaki. He used the heel of his hand and twisted his hand to operate the safety.

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Not easy to do when you have scope mounted on the rifle. You
can use your thumb, but it takes practice.

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Originally Posted by nsaqam
Excellent point made by Al.

I'd consider the .300 Savage.
I once briefly owned an Arisaka that had been rechambered to .300 Savage. I can't even recall if it had been rebarreled or just rebored. I never ran a shell through it, and traded it off soon thereafter. I had spoken to a 'smith who told me .300 Savage conversions were one of the more common projects for the WWII bringbacks.


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Ah good memories. My Grandpa was a WWII vet ( he was on Japan for the surrender) and he had a 6.5 Arisaka. I took it apart and cleaned it once and was amazed at it's simplicity. He told me I could shoot it and told me the ammo was in the closet. I looked but all that was left was two empty boxes of Norma ammo. His boys must have shot it all off. At that time you couldn't find the stuff very easy so I never got to shoot it and he's gone now and so is the gun. I bought a 7.7 a few years ago but the cartridge didn't interest me like the 6.5 so I sold it.

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I too find the 6.5x50 Japanese a very interesting cartridge.

I always thought it would be a superb pistol cartridge.


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I own a 6.5 and 7.7, the 7.7 was sporterised when I bought it, the 6.5 I sporterised myself. both shoot great especially the 6.5, I have shot groups as small as an inch with handloads. A few years back at a gun show I bought 7 boxes of once fired Norma brass for forty bucks. If you reload your own ammo and have access to brass at a reasonable price I see no reason to spend the money for a rebarrel job.

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I believe I have also heard of rechambering Arisakas to
6.5x55mm.

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