Nice opening Salvo. You'll do fine. Just read the rules.Hello, just wanted to say hi and thanks for letting me in.
Owning (dare I say it) a "sporterized" Arisaka 99 it gets cold and lonely in the Arisaka pages.
In my defense I didn't sporterize it. It was given to me by someone that said you could stand in a room, fire five shots and not hit the same wall twice. And he was right. I found it had been converted to 30-06. So I loaded some 30-06 with .311 bullets and it was fine, except for the crudely mounted aftermarket sights.
I Fired a bunch of high power 30-06 (50,000 to 60,000psi) with no problems.
When I rebarreled to 7.7 Jap, several on an Arisaka page told me I couldn't reload it more than 45,000psi.
So hello, I'm here. I just rebarreled to 7.7, bedded the action, floated the barrel and shut my eyes and fired a round to check headspace. ( Don't say anything I know but I'm old and it doesn't matter anymore. ) Brass checked out very good.
So this is my warning shot..... Beware and thanks.
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