The Jap Springfield's are closer in size,feel and weight than ether of the Italian repo's. On the two I have worked on they both have a standard removable type breech plug.Fit and finish is quite good.
Now the minuses.
The tang on the breech plug is about 1/4 " longer than any of the others.
No real problem except you cant drop in any other barrel.
Also I was going to have one relined by Bobby Hoyt. He informed me that the way the barrel is threaded to the breech makes it unsafe for him to reline them in his normal way. He said the only way he would do one is to install a new barrel onto the Jap breech. I went this route. It did cost more though.
All of the ones I have looked at were a bit large in bore dia. .579-.582
The last thing that some people dislike is the two piece stock. The splice is at the lower band. I just redo the joint then full length bed the stock. [epoxy]
Hope this helps.
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