Arisaka Type 99 info
Hi this is my first post so please forgive me if I F#*k it up. I would apreciate any information related to an arisaka rifle my grandfather brought back. I don,t have any pic but as it was a favorite toy of mine when I was a child I can remember all relivant details. It was from the Korisawa( cant spall) arsenal it had two "vent holes" not one, the mum was intact it also had the oval stlye bolt handle. The front sight was not the stlye with the ears with holes, It also had a steel plate along the but stock and the metal band that holds the top wood piece was a single solid metal ring (no gaps) These are the differeces I have seen with hundreds of other arisakas i have found. I have been looking for this same rifle on and off for 10 years. please feel free to tell me Iam an idiot, but I don,t know where else to look or go for info.
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Are you looking for a rifle exactly like the one your grandfather had or are you looking for THE exact rifle? 0 -
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T-38 Thats it you are the man! Iam looking for a replacement Iam sure you know or understand how family members get when a loved one dies they snatch up everything worth having. I was the eldest grandson at the time and it was rightfully mine any who my aunt took it and now denies having it she has since had a kid and probably kept it for him eventhough me nor anyone else in the family belives she has a rightfull claim to it. its not worth starting a fight over the way I look at it is what goes around comes around.
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Actually the one Fatstrat posted is an early one ...single (un-protected) front blade sight, and if you look at the safety knob it has the big lug on it. Mid-years had a similar lug but much smaller and went to a 2-eared protected front sight. Mid-year to war's end there was no lug at all on the safety, just a notch, plus same protected sight. IF it had the an intact Mum, that meant it was a captured weapon during the fighting ...again looking at Fatstrat's post you can see just in front of the 2 ports a ground away section ...this is where the "Mum" was (the Emperor's symbol) ...this was ground or disfigured as to not disrespect the Emperor, these weapons were called surrendered weapons. FYI the type 99 one had a single gas port, but the same basic configuration. 0 -
Yes Iam aware it was a smuggled captured weapon and it was an early model my grandpa said there where just piles of them and he just took one and mailed it back to the states in a box with some clothes. 0 -
Vet bring back/send home Arisaka generally were not "Smuggled" weapons. It was perfectly legal and acceptable for soldiers to acquire these rifles. Both from the battlefield, and after wars end from stock piles put out for them to acquire souvenirs. Provided that they did the required paperwork.
In fact, there are more Arisaka's in the U.S., than anywhere else in the world. With the vast majority of them sent or brought here as vet souvenirs. A few years after the wars end (1947 as I recall), the remaining captureded Arisaka's were loaded on barges and dumped into Tokyo Bay. Unlike captured WW-2 European rifles which were sold as surplus.
Occasional soldier attempting to bring home captured rifles would encounter troop ship Captains who forbid the bringing of weapons aboard their ship. In these cases, rifles were sometimes "smuggled". Usually by removing the barrel/receiver from the stock. And cutting the stock at the rear barrel band so that the entire disassembled rifle could be concealed inside a soldiers duffle bag.0
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