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Gun nut Bob
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Posted: 10/30/2009 at 11:58:11 |
Thread Title: "Rechamber a 6.5 Jap to 30/06"
I once heard that 6.5 Japs were rechambered to 30/06. So butchered Japs were cheap and I just had to do it. First you have to free bore the barrel with a five sixteenths drill bit to the depth the pilot on the chamber reamer has to go or use a headless chamber reamer. You also need a roughing reamer or do part of the reaming with drill bits, because it takes a lot of metal out. Once done I put the rifle in a tire with half of a split 55 gallon drum over it and set it off with a wire on the trigger. It kicked so hard that it moved the tire slightly. After 5 rounds of G.I. M 2 ball I could not see any signs of strain on the gun. Can't imagine the velocity that squeeze bore obtained. But it was up there. Even though it did not seem to harm the rifle any, I was never even tempted to shoot it from my shoulder. No one has that gun in there collection today, because after I got through playing, I cut the barrel thru the chamber with a torch and made a lot of other spare parts for a 6.5 Jap. Even the cut down stock was usable. I just imagine what would have happened if I did an 03 Springfield that way. Some might feel that the excessive strength of the 6.5 Jap was quality when actually it was the lack of quality to build a gun that would stand 90,000 pounds of chamber pressure to shoot a 40,000 pound chamber pressure cartridge. At the time it was built the Japs just didn't know how much strength they needed. So they built it where they knew it was strong enough!!!!!!!!!!And yes I have had a lot of fun wrecking a lot of old guns. Ones you might want parts off of. But nothing anybody would want in their gun collection. Now even those are to expensive to destroy. |
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