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Arisaka bolts.

armydriver
I have, what I have determined to be an Arisaka Type 38 training rifle, that has no bolt. I have tried what I was told was a type 38 bolt and it will not go into the breech and a type 99 bolt I removed from my type 99 rifle.It dopes not fit either. Does this rifle use a special bolt or is my type 38 bolt not a type 38 after all. I am kind of a novice with the Arisaka's.
thanks for any help.
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  • Emmett Dunham
    Someone took the bolt out of the rifle becuse it is dangerous with one in it. If you loaded the rifle and fired it would blow up in your face.


    Emmett
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  • p3skyking
    The training rifles of Japan are a subset unto themselves. There were many makers and I've often thought "if they were going to put this much effort into a non-shooting trainer, they could just as easily have made a real rifle".

    Usually the only one will fit exactly came from the same maker. The two types of trainers were ones that fired wooden bullets and ones that fired only blanks. They will not have rifling so that is a sure way to tell from a service weapon.

    You could probably dummy up a bolt from a scrap service bolt as long as the look was all you are after.
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  • Fatstrat
    By "Training rifle", do you mean a smooth bore blank firing trainer? Or one of the T-38's that was removed from military service and used as a school training rifle. The retired T-38's are generally refered to as "School guns".
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  • armydriver
    The "look" is all that is needed. I first thought that this was just another Japanese rifle that needed completion until I ran into the bolt question, still being a retired school teacher, it does intrigue me that these rifles were manufactured for training school children. It appears to me that using standard battle rifles and firing blanks would suffice rather than making a completely different rifle. That is, in a way, what we have done with the ROTC 03 and 03A3 Springfield's. Just not firing anything, but still giving a training rifle to use for drill.
    Thanks fellows.
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  • Fatstrat
    If you can give a discription of the markings, or post pics, I can likely tell you what training model you have. And who made it.
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