![]() ![]() It is obvious that once my Uncle picked up the rifles, they were well greased as far as the magazine followers, bolts, etc. One rifle has the original heavy webbing/leather sling and each has the original “dust covers”. Both rifles show the typical Type 38 markings on the top of the receiver and both retain the Japanese Imperial “Mum”. The exterior of both rifles retain their original metal finish. Once I got the dust and cobwebs out of the bores, both rifles have excellent bores with bright and heavy rifling. but are in far better than the average rifles that saw heavy service. In researching them, I came up with the following.īoth rifles are in very good condition. I was wrong.īoth rifles are Type 38 Arisaka rifles. It had been years since I had looked at them and I was under the belief that both were Type 99 rifles. For well over 65 years, the two rifles hung over my Uncle’s fireplace. They say that the memory is the first thing to go, and I guess that probably applies here. ![]() At some point, he and the other officers went ashore and it is believed it was at that time that he picked up the two rifles and three Type 39 bayonets from the piles of surrendered military items. He was a Naval officer on a tanker and they were anchored in Tokyo Bay during the time of the surrender. Earlier this year, I had a call from a cousin who wanted to give me two Japanese Arisaka rifles that his Dad, my Uncle, had brought back from WWII. ![]()
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