Originally Posted by
Conductor
I remember reading a short article in the American Rifleman back in the late 1950s about a guy who rechambered a 6.5 Arisaka to 30-06. He took it to a gunsmith, complaining that ever since he rechambered it, the recoil was unbearable. The gunsmith explained to him that he couldn't rechamber a 6.5 to 30-06 because the pilot on the reamer wouldn't fit into the barrel throat. The customer said that he had indeed had that problem, but had turned the reamer down on his lathe until it would fit. The article in the Rifleman had photos of a couple of the bullets fired through the gun, and they were squeezed out until they were about an inch and a half or two inches long.
One point of the article was how strong the Arisaka action is. The other point is how stupid some people are. They didn't call the guy stupid. I think the term they used was "lucky".