 Type 44 cavalry carbines, first adopted in 1911, were also chambered in 6.5×50mm.Early 6.5×50mm cartridges had a cupronickel, round-nosed bullet weighing fired with approximately of smokeless powder.This was later changed with the adoption of the Type 38 when Japan, in line with the other great powers around the same time, changed to the pointed, or spitzer, bullet in the first decade of the twentieth century.