Japanese Navy Type 1 Rifle, 6.5x50
I recently acquired one of these, without a stock. It has the complete stock metal - bands, springs, recoil lug sleeve, cleaning rod, etc., and the handguard, but no buttstock. The bore is very decent, as is the general condition of the gun. It was captured on New Britain in 1943. It was in a handmade canvas sleeve with the individuals' name and service number stenciled on it.
I did some research, and it turns out that the Imperial Navy had 60,000 of these made around 1938 for use by Naval landing parties. I believe that finding a stock for this critter will be hopeless, as it was a design hybrid which used a Carcano-type action and an Arisaka magazine, trigger guard, sights, and other M38-type parts including the stock, which was inletted differently for the action.
My question is regarding an estimate of how many of these survived, and if only half of a Type 1 has any real value (like, I need another lamp [:D]).
I did some research, and it turns out that the Imperial Navy had 60,000 of these made around 1938 for use by Naval landing parties. I believe that finding a stock for this critter will be hopeless, as it was a design hybrid which used a Carcano-type action and an Arisaka magazine, trigger guard, sights, and other M38-type parts including the stock, which was inletted differently for the action.
My question is regarding an estimate of how many of these survived, and if only half of a Type 1 has any real value (like, I need another lamp [:D]).
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No idea how many survived; I have one. It is a type I not a type 1.
Not terribly valuable; fair condition complete examples go for around $200, really nice ones top out around double that.
Yours could be parted out I'm sure but without a stock it isn't very valuable. Maybe $100?0 -
Put it up for auction,,I would bid.[:)]mm8nambu 0 -
You have a (IMO) very interesting WW-2 Japanese rifle. Reportedly these were made in Italy for the Japanese as part of some type of AXIS trade agreement. And shipped to Japan via submarine due to Allied air/sea superiority in the shipping lanes. Upon arrival in Japan, they were generally disliked by Japanese soldiers who preferred their familiar Arisaka's. Even tho they are generally considered (by later day collectors) to be more accurate and of better general quality. For that reason, most were issued to the Japanese Navy where they generally saw little use. Some were battle used late in the war after the Japanese Navy was all but destroyed and surviving sailors were often transfered to land operations. But most Type I's are found in generally better, often nearly unabused condition compared to most Arisaka's.
I wouldn't give up on finding a stock. But it will likely be a hard find. Butit helps to know WHERE to look. You are lucky that that you have a cleaning rod. Most Type I's are for some reason found minus rod. And the C-Rod is another tough find.0 -
Check with Dave at www.hoosiergunworks.com for a stock, he had so many they were burning the culls. 0
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