japanese arisaka
A friend gave me a rusted pile of junk. after refinishing it,it turned out to be a nice rifle. 7.7x58 last ditch Arisaka. However most of the bolt parts are missing.I have the bolt body and ejector. What else do I need to complete the bolt? thanks.
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Here is a on-line schematic from Gun Parts Corp. It shows the various parts that make up the bolt assembly.
http://www.e-gunparts.com/productschem.asp?chrMasterModel=1040zTYPE 990 -
quote:Originally posted by gunner1864
A friend gave me a rusted pile of junk. after refinishing it,it turned out to be a nice rifle. 7.7x58 last ditch Arisaka. However most of the bolt parts are missing.I have the bolt body and ejector. What else do I need to complete the bolt? thanks.
You need the firing pin, the firing pin spring, and the safety knob. The Arisaka is about the simplest bolt ever made.0 -
Gunner, what do you mean by last ditch? If truly one of those it is generally recommended that they not be fired. The receivers for "last ditch" Arisakas are cast, and can be identified by an integral upper tang. Those cast receivers are considered unsafe.
Be careful.
OleDuk[:)][:)]0 -
To help identify that weapon with accuracy, I will attempt to send you a link that can help tell you when it was made and where. If the link does not go through, email me and I can send to you.
It is very important to know the details of an Arisaka before firing![url][/url]0 -
Sorry, I just have not been able to figure out how to send a hyper link on this forum. Wish I could as the site has Mauser and other info as well. 0 -
http://www.surplusrifle.com There is a complete photo take down and explanation of your bolt and rifle on this site.
Good, luck
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I'll reinforce what Ole Duk posted on the "Last Ditch" rifles. Two easy indentifiers - wooden butt plate and a FIXED peep sight welded to the front edge of the receiver. 0 -
Emmett, that's a very good site for someone unfamiliar with a particular weapon. Good post![:)]
There is some bogus info floating around about cast iron receivers however. The last ditch Type 99 rifles DO NOT HAVE CAST IRON RECEIVERS.
SOME cast iron receivers were made into training rifles that were NEVER to be fired with live ammunition. There were also some Type 35 rifles made up with cast iron receivers, but these have SPECIAL NAVY STEEL markings on the receiver. In Japanese Kanji though, so unless you can read some Japanese, you wouldn't know that. These are very rare and most have already been snapped up into collections.
If you can post clear photographs of the markings on the top and left side of the receiver, the exact type and series can be determined with certainty.
There is one last ditch that is pretty valuable and it is from the Hiroshima Prefecture. Of course, to cut or refinish such a rifle degrades the collector value.0 -
quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
Emmett, that's a very good site for someone unfamiliar with a particular weapon. Good post![:)]
There is some bogus info floating around about cast iron receivers however. The last ditch Type 99 rifles DO NOT HAVE CAST IRON RECEIVERS.
SOME cast iron receivers were made into training rifles that were NEVER to be fired with live ammunition. There were also some Type 35 rifles made up with cast iron receivers, but these have SPECIAL NAVY STEEL markings on the receiver. In Japanese Kanji though, so unless you can read some Japanese, you wouldn't know that. These are very rare and most have already been snapped up into collections.
If you can post clear photographs of the markings on the top and left side of the receiver, the exact type and series can be determined with certainty.
There is one last ditch that is pretty valuable and it is from the Hiroshima Prefecture. Of course, to cut or refinish such a rifle degrades the collector value.
What he says is true. However, the Last Ditch T-99's were made late in the war during a time of extreme manufacturing hardships on the Japanese due to allied air/sea superiority. They couldn't get raw materials in. And their Arsenals/manfacturing centers were being bombed. Therefore the Japanese "made do" with what they could do. Which in this case meant sub-standard recycled metals and cottage industry manufacturing.
Cottage industry means that manufacturing was moved away from industrial area's that were bombing targets, to remote areas. Often in rural garages, sheds and barns.
Another intersting factor is the Japanese Army and Navy operated independantly and in competition w/one another for war materials, weaponry AND MANPOWER. Also curious was the Japanese opinion that draftee's lives were "worth less than a penny", and the use of suicide Banzi attacks that lost so many soldiers. The Japanese military as a whole was in severe need of manpower by mid war.
And what happened was the Army drafted skilled workers from MFG plants working on Navy contracts. And the Navy did vise-versa.
So by late war, most skilled mfg labor was either dead or in the military. And women and school children were recruited to replace them.
The result was in this case,the Last Ditch T-99 that was made of sub standard materials, on worn tooling, by inexperienced operators. And a rifle of certainly questionable quality in terms of being safe to fire.
Many people, including myself have fired Last Ditch T-99's w/no problems. But none other than Fred Honeycutt, the most prominient expert on Arisaka's, reports that he had an L-D that he had fired many times, unexpectedly blow up.
And advises that they not be fired.0 -
Thanks to all. Ok, best I can tell this is a T99 short rifle,series 25 from the Kokura arsenal. serial # 39822. It has a wooden buttstock, rear peep sight, and no cleaning rod. From the sounds of things it will be unsafe to fire no matter what. I would still like to repair it for my collection. Any more info would be much appreciated. Thanks again. 0 -
I have rebuild and replaced parts and put together quite a few basket cases and the only way you are going to get the parts are to go where people who collect the rifle are, search the internet for forums and parts sellers, watch the gun shows, check the parts on GunBroker, post a wanted add on the Wanted forum on this site. It have taken as long as four years to find a part for one of the rifles I put toghther.
Emmett0
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