I hope you can get yours out to the firing line sometime. These are not common rifles and, I think, all example whether original or sporterized are interesting and fun shooters. out of stock but much cheaper when it is available. box-of-20 - Out of stock and expensive when available Lee makes dies, Norma makes brass & both are available at MidwayUSA. Parts are available at these places that I've found: book.html I hope to get a copy sometime to verify some of the things I've read online. Ī good book on the subject seems to be this one. I realize this conflicts with the family memory but. You may be able to find a year stamped on the receiver under the woodline. The big thing is that it's probably made in 41 ~ 42 based on what I'm seeing online. It'll be a very good shooter in all probability although it's going to be a bit more valuable because of the intact 'mum. It would have come with the monopod so when you buy parts to fix the front and rear sights, you can look for one. It's a very early series 23 then - that series was the start of the change over to cheaper manufacturing methods by it's end. Now a question.is this the sort of thing that, once I have cleaned up, I would want to have blued? The parts that could be easily removed are now enjoying the first oil they have seen in at least 50 years (i know my father never bothered when it came to him following his grandfather's passing in '64, nor my brother or I following my father's passing in '85), the others are ever so slowly getting a taste so that they too will want to indulge and thus become compliant to my desire to remove them from the stock. The dust cover you can just barely see if you look closely at the image in the OP.or rather see that it's in place because you can't see the bolt.Įdit: Yes, the barrel is chrome lined, thank the gods.otherwise I am certain it would be pitted beyond all hope. The thing did have the anti-aircraft rear sight, but now the whole of the rear sight is missing, though I am certain it's laying about my brother's house somewhere, probably next to the cleaning rod, bi-pod and bayonet.but that doesn't mean any human will see it for another century. But, I expected something like that might happen, I'm not too broken up about it.
I put the bolt parts into my friend's ultrasonic cleaner and more paint came off than gunk. That black finish doesn't hold up well to enthusiastic cleaning.
anywho, I cleaned it up all nice and purdy and the action went from "Hey buddy, can ya help me work the bolt? I need some more elbow grease" to "WOW! That's buttery smooth!"įirst time I had it out at the range after that, I figured out where it was shooting and from an offhand stance nailed an 18" steel plate at 260 yards on my first try at that distance. Even removed some mud, which probably got in there when Papa dragged the rifle and himself across the jungle floor. My dad fired it as a teen and hated the action.Īfter I got it, I stripped it down and cleaned the bajesus out of it. I have the Type 99 that Papa brought back from WWII (its previous owner used it to put 3 bullets into the old codger) and it sat in storage for two generations. Likely meeting him thursday to take a closer look and decide, was planning on talking him down closer to 300.If the barrel's in good shape, these make hella good shooters. He seems to believe some units marked the off caliber Arisakas when the 7.7 arisaka became more popular? which also brings up, should I change the furniture on it as well? My biggest question tho is why does the stock have a large "9" ingraved into it. Seeing as i dont fancy spending thousands to complete a Japanese small arms collection I dont mind a lower end example until I can upgrade later down the road. He is asking 400$CAD which reflects condition as a mint example will fetch upwards of 2g's. Stock appears to have a crack to the front lower handguard, mum is ground and is missing the cleaning rod, otherwise all matching SN and still in working order from what he tells me.
#Arisaka stock crack serial
This one here is a Koishikawa arsenal with serial 1337XXX placing it likely in the 20's. Came across this Arisaka type 38 for sale locally, any Japanese Milsurps are very hard to come by in Canada and usually fetch a "pretty penny".
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