Arisaka TYPE 99

Some pictures of my "new" Arisaka
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I also had one a while back, but sold it since I could not find the scope for the rifle. Later I found out the scope was worth more than the rifle, both together would have brought in a chunk of cash.

Mine had the "MUM" obliterated, unlike yours is mint.

Also very nice bayonet.

http://www.radix.net/~bbrown/japanese_markings.html

http://www.gunboards.com/sites/banzai/RifPrimer/RifleInt.htm

Here's some info in case you don't have it yet.

wht is the line cut into the reciever above the serial number for? is that a scope mount of some kind? Also thanks for the kind words about the rifle!

wht is the line cut into the reciever above the serial number for? is that a scope mount of some kind? Also thanks for the kind words about the rifle!
I think the lines are for the dust cover.

I think the lines are for the dust cover.

Exactly, that is what they are for, the story goes like this, most Japanese Infantry soldiers will remove the dust cover because it rattled around and gave them away when sneaking up to the enemy.

It is also believed that all rifles that have an intact "MUM" where war pick-up's, this is so because when the war was over the Japanese had all their weapons royalty markings (CrisanteMUM) defaced so not to dishonor the king of Japan at the time.

The US military let the soldiers in theater bring the rifles back as souvenir's of war. Most of this rifles where defaced by griding off the "MUM".

It has been proven that the Arisaka rifle receiver is among if not the strongest ever made. When in a pinch it has been said that one can load a .30 06 cartridge and fire it safely in this rifles, accuracy is out the window yet it is functional.

nice! never really seen one up close. The receiver and other metal parts look to be cut n machined quite nicely.

how hard is ammo to come by for these rifles?

Lately its been really hard to find fmj ammo. sp is around but very exspensive

Kind of silly that they used anti-aircraft sights on their Infantry rifles. Not sure any planes were brought down that way!

Norma makes 7.7 Jap ($$$). I had one a long time ago ( 1991 or so)that was complete with mum, AA sights and monopod. It was mint, BUUUUT, it had a bulge in the barrel right under the handguards. Make me sick as a dog when I found that out. Sold it at a gun show for what I had in it, $80

Do you have the monopod and cleaning rod?

yes,just no dust cover

I don't know how you would get a 06' cartridge to chamber,as it is substancially longer than the 7.7jap.You can make 7.7 brass from 06' brass,I have some.But its a process.

I have a vet bring-back that was given to me when I was 10. No dust cover or bipod, but the monopod and cleaning rod are there and the mum is intact. It has a nice little chunk gouged out of the stock just to the right of the receiver tang, probably a shell splinter or grenade fragment. The Marine I got it from hit the beach at Tarawa and souveniered it there. I wish he had grabbed the bayonet too. I think Prvi Partisan is loading 7.7 now. A buddy was going to borrow it for a Pacific War event and we found that the 8mm Mauser blanks I make for the K-98's fed and functioned just fine in the Arisaka.