WestKentucky
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I have been tossing around the idea
For a few years on building my own bolt action. I looked long and hard at a bunch of options and the things that were sensible were expensive thus the process never got out of conception, until yesterday. I was looking at sporterized mausers and barreled actions trying to find a steal on gunbroker and I ran across stripped arisaka actions in both 38 and 99 flavors. They were cheap enough so now I have a nice looking de-mummed action headed my way for $40 after transfer. The more I look at stuff about the type 38 the more excited I am getting. It is apparently among the most robustly built actions ever produced and of well regarded metallurgy so after I collect the remaining bits I will begin to assemble.
Initial thought is to build it as a 6.5cm because I’m wanting a long range fast shooter, but then there’s the ideas of a destroyer carbine in 10mm that refuses to escape my brain. This will be a slow slow build.
Anybody else built an arisaka for the sake of doing it? Anybody else like me have a penchant for weird and think that the destroyer idea with glock mags would be fun?
Other initial thought is that I should buy an ugly sporter to rob parts from to more affordably amass the parts to build my rifle from.
For a few years on building my own bolt action. I looked long and hard at a bunch of options and the things that were sensible were expensive thus the process never got out of conception, until yesterday. I was looking at sporterized mausers and barreled actions trying to find a steal on gunbroker and I ran across stripped arisaka actions in both 38 and 99 flavors. They were cheap enough so now I have a nice looking de-mummed action headed my way for $40 after transfer. The more I look at stuff about the type 38 the more excited I am getting. It is apparently among the most robustly built actions ever produced and of well regarded metallurgy so after I collect the remaining bits I will begin to assemble.
Initial thought is to build it as a 6.5cm because I’m wanting a long range fast shooter, but then there’s the ideas of a destroyer carbine in 10mm that refuses to escape my brain. This will be a slow slow build.
Anybody else built an arisaka for the sake of doing it? Anybody else like me have a penchant for weird and think that the destroyer idea with glock mags would be fun?
Other initial thought is that I should buy an ugly sporter to rob parts from to more affordably amass the parts to build my rifle from.
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