A few pics of my Arisaka Type 99 short rifle.

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A few pics of my Arisaka Type 99 short rifle.

Post by PeterN2 » Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:16 pm

I thought it was time to wake up this forum again. Here a a few pics of my Type 99 short rifle. This is the Japanese equivalent of the Enfield No.4 and is about the same size.





The full length view.


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The right side of the action.


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The rear sight with the anti-aircraft arms.


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The front end and monopod. The monopod is a repro from Gunparts Corp. There is a U shaped spring thingy that bolts through the hole in the band. It didn't fit very well and I ended up stripping the thread on the bolt so I have left it off.


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The left side of the action.


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The action top.


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The chrysthanthemum has had a pass of the grinder to remove the Emperors symbol, but only a half-hearted effort was made on this one as they left most of it.


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The screws are still staked from when this rifle was built 60 odd years ago. This rifle has never been apart since it left the factory.


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There we have it. It is a nice rifle and shoots well. It has a chromed bore. The early production Type 99 rifles had chromed bores but this was left out as the war progressed. Other shortcuts were made in production until by 1945 the 'last ditch' models were being made. These were very rough. I had a look at some when I bought this rifle but I didn't fancy shooting one even if it passed proof. Oddly. the roughest of all, a series 12 Nagoya arsenal produced rifle is one of the most valuable to collectors as only a very few are known to exist. I read that they can be worth upwards of $5000, about £2700. I didn't know this when I was looking at the rifles so I could have been holding a valuable rifle that I could have had for £150. Oh well, I can console myself by thinking that it may have blown up during proof testing.


Regards


Peter.




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Post by riceone » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:04 pm

That is a very nice rifle Peter. I have bought one pod set and I had trouble with the spring and bolt but did manage to get it in. So many of the pods were taken off after they got over here.Your experience with the 12 brought to memory a similar event. I did not know a rope hole 11th was worth anything. Gave $50 for one just to get the screws and few other things. Gun was worth about $500 then. Ended up letting someone trade me out of it for a $125 rifle. Ignorance cost somethimes. A 12th series is one I would really like to have.
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