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Question for the Arisaka guys-Addl. info
dcinffxva
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Asking for a friend who has what I believe to be a type 38. Did the Japs renumber their rifles like the Germans did, or is this an early gun. Also, is it worth repairing, as the tang is broken, or what would it be worth in as-is condition. It does have some cool markings on it. The reason I guessed type 38 is that it's definitely not 7.7, so I was guessing 6.5. There is no mum, and it appears there never was one. The bore is fairly rough, and I see no evidence of rifling.
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Single flash hole on the receiver, the broken tang, lack of a mum, no arsenal marking, strange serial number... adds up to me to be a Japanese training rifle. See: http://oldrifles.com/japanese.htm
Go to near the bottom of the page.
That represents a question. SOME training rifles were made on worn out guns, some from cast iron, which are unsafe to shoot except perhaps blanks. Which is what I think you have.
So no, not worth restoring at all.
I might be wrong, let's see what others say.
Edit to what 11echo said. T-99s had a full length handgaurd. This one does not. It could possibly be a long 99, which is a rather rare gun, but the general lines of it other than the pressure relief hole say "38" to me.
Again, no arsenal mark either.
It's either a training rifle or a defaced 99 Long rifle. I'm leaning towards the former.
http://berk1.tripod.com/
1) Is the bore rifled or smooth?
2) Does the receiver ring appear scrubbed (markings obliterated)?
Other than that, the characters on L&R butt area are typical of "school markings", & same goes for the sling.
That busted tang is an easy, bolt-on fix. These parts are common as doggstufft on those sites already noted above.
http://www.radix.net/~bbrown/japanese_markings.html
Hope it helps
-JD