Is anyone doing anything with the 100 year old plus 6.5 Arisaka? Had a rare and beautiful one in the 60s.Used it some and than sadly rechambered it to a 6.5 x .284.
In looking at what's going on in the 6.5 arena today I guess the folks in the 1890s were just too far ahead of the times.
With modern loading this would be a real pisser. Why I'd bet even Ray would like it. roger

mine got turned into a 6.5X257.
it was already butchered so no loss.

I remember my BIL shooting his first Buck with his 6.5 Arisaka though.
he was about 15 at the time.
he was using his usual still [sleeping] hunting technique when a buck coming over the ridge woke him up, so he shot it.

pretty sure that's still his one and only deer.

My favorite still tactic. Killed several using it.

I have several arisakas. One is a sporterized special. One has a 16" barrel and a mann type stock in 260 rem and one is a sporter in 6.5x250 sav.
You can bump up the factory load, but not by as much as you might think.

My first general purpose rifle was an Arisaka rechambered to 6.5X.308 (now legitimized by Remington as the .260 Remington). With its 7.5" twist it would digest any weight bullet and I used it as my first varmint rifle. I gave it to an old friend, but when he died, his widow gave it back to me and I still have it.

In the mean time I have acquired an Oberndorf Mauser 1937 Portuguese contract rifle, rebarreled to the same caliber, and it proved to be an excellent deer slayer.

A few years ago the 260 urge got me,, about an hour later I found one in Idaho and had a bil there & headed this way. It's an Arisaka with nice wood and a Leupold 4.5X14. We have a point 400yds across the bay we throuw trapping carcass's on and a gong in the summer,I havn't killed a wolf with it but all summer long the gong is pretty popular. I did put a Timney trigger on it and shoot the same load and bullet as the previous owner, I never had to touch the scope!

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Originally posted by theback40:
I have several arisakas. One is a sporterized special. One has a 16" barrel and a mann type stock in 260 rem and one is a sporter in 6.5x250 sav.

A 6.5X.250 Savage makes a lot of sense in that it takes that capacity case into a heavier bullet category than is available in the 25 caliber and cases for reloading are more available than with the Arisaka. roger

I have a 6.5 jap carbine .Its lots of fun to shoot .I killed two deer with it using bowler blastic tips seated way out .It shoots them 1.5 inches at 100 yards .
The best bulkets are 155 grain lapula mega tips they shoot 1 inch out of my rifke and work awesome .It likes imr 4350 best 6.Its only 5.75 pounds with a
2x7 Burris mini scope .I bought it for $50
And spent $60 getting it drilled and tapows and a weaver scope base . The trigger sucks totally . Its a fun little rifle to hunt with .

I'm glad to see the semi new interest in the 6.5's,although I was never a fan of the Arisaka personally.It has taken many years for Americans to accept the metric calibres. 7x57 notwithstanding.

My father brought two Arisska's back from Japan after WWII. A 6.5 and a 7.7 and a Nambu pistol.
He bought a couple of walnut stocks for them to sporterize them. I remember sanding on those stocks we I was probably 6-7 years old (1963-64).
They are a control feed Mauser type action. The safety is a pad on the back of the bolt you push forward and twist. Of course the bolt sticks out 90 degrees from the gun and delatches at 12 o'clock. I have never pulled a trigger on either of them. They are just some family history.

My first centerfire rifle was a sporterized one my dad brought back from Japan that was a 6.5x257 Roberts. Sadly, I traded it when I was 18. I now have one that is unaltered military with a great bore. I reload for it with bullets in the 140 to 160 grain range. It shoots as well as I can see.

I've had a 6.5X257 since 67 (also my first centerfire).
It does better that I do.
Every 6.5X50 I have seen has an eccentric oversize chamber that is hard on brass if loaded to full power.
Followed a gunzine writers writing and had a 6.5 TCU Contender barrel rechambered to such. Trust RichJ's and my findings . . . bad mistake.
Passed on a Carbine with 2 piece walnut stock, pristine metal and bore at a Nashville show way back when and still regret that failure to shell out cash!