Type 99 arisaka with anti aircraft sight

#TYPE 99 ARISAKA WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT SIGHT SERIAL NUMBERS#
#TYPE 99 ARISAKA WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT SIGHT SERIAL NUMBER#

There are numerous scattered scrapes, compressions, impact marks, scratches, nicks, scuffs, and numerous spots of scattered discoloration. The lower tang wraps around the front of the bottom piece to better secure the piece. The buttstock is made from two pieces of wood, with the bottom piece starting near the bottom of the pistol grip. Stock Configuration & Condition: The stock is smooth wood with finger grooves, metal nosecap with a hole for the included cleaning rod, pistol grip, straight comb, metal buttplate, two sling loops, and a folding wire monopod. The ladder has folding anti-aircraft wings attached, each marked вЂњ2вЂќ and вЂњ3вЂќ, and with a вЂњVвЂќ notch on the outside edge (lower edge when unfolded to the horizontal position). The slider has spring-loaded latches for raising and lowering the slider and locking it into position. The sides of the ladder are marked from вЂњ3вЂќ to вЂњ15вЂќ.

When the ladder is folded up, there is an aperture in the center of the slider for use. The rear of the ladder has a fixed peep sight for use when the ladder is folded down. The rear sight is a ladder sight that is screwed to the barrel. Sights / Optics: The front sight is an inverted вЂњVвЂќ dovetailed into a banded rectangular base on the barrel, the protective ears have broken off. The rear of the bolt handle and underside of the aircraft sight have small stampings. The back of the dust cover is marked вЂњ02вЂќ. The underside of the bolt handle, front of the safety, firing pin, side of the extractor, and the bottom of the bayonet lug are matched to the rifle and marked вЂњ260вЂќ. The top of the chamber ring is marked with a Japanese Chrysanthemum and three Japanese characters represent вЂњ99вЂќ and вЂњTypeвЂќ as read from left to right.

#TYPE 99 ARISAKA WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT SIGHT SERIAL NUMBER#

Markings: The left side of the receiver is marked with the serial number вЂњ40260вЂќ and stacked cannonballs representing the Kokura Arsenal. In the words of our Gunny, вЂњIf they could see you they could kill you.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s all that counts in combat.Arrow_back Returns To All Sold Items arrow_back Return To Sold Foreign Military ArmsДЄction Type: Bolt Action with Internal Magazine Fed By Stripper Clips. The original scopes were lacking in comparative quality but these rifles, in the hands of a veteran of protracted combat, were deadly. After qualification with it, I repeated the course out to 500+ meters with my early-era Type 99 (Chrome-lined barrel, anti-aircraft sights and mono-pod) equipped with a modern Weaver 3-9X variable in the original stock shooting precision hand-loads and was only 3 points behind the M-40X equipped with its Fecker scope. It was accurate out to about 1500 meters. My last qualification in the Marines was with the Rem. I do not like the original scopes but with an altered bolt handle and a modern scope they are unbeatable as originals and as sporterized hunting rifles. Ackley tested all the various military rifles from that era and concluded that the Type 99 action was the strongest of the lot. It is definitely old news that the Type 99 Arisaka is my favorite WWII rifle bar none. The utility of the weapon in Japanese practice came not from it being mechanically more accurate than any other issue rifle, but rather from the optical sight allowing better exploitation of that standard rifleвЂ™s inherent accuracy. The rifles made into snipers were given no special selection criteria simply taken at random from normal production.

#TYPE 99 ARISAKA WITH ANTI AIRCRAFT SIGHT SERIAL NUMBERS#

Nagoya would produce approximately 10,000 of these rifles, with 4x scopes except for a period between serial numbers 5,000 and 7,000 with 2.5x scopes (most likely the remainder stored at Kokura when that plant ceased production). About 1,000 of the scoped 99s were manufactured by the Kokura Arsenal using the same 2.5x scope as on the Type 97 sniper, while the Nagoya Arsenal instead used a 4x scope, offering more magnification at the expense of a narrower field of view. Testing through 1941 determined that there was almost no practical difference in accuracy between scoped examples of the Type 99 long and short rifles, and so the short rifle was chosen to be the basis for the Type 99 sniper (the Type 99 long rifles would drop from production altogether pretty quickly anyway). In 1941, shortly after the adoption of the new 7.7mm rifle cartridge, it was decided that a sniper rifle variant of the Type 99 should be made in addition to the Type 97 (which was basically a scoped Type 38). The Japanese Army made significant use of snipers (or in todayвЂ™s terminology, designated marksmen) as part of its infantry combined arms doctrine, and produced about 22,000 Type 97 sniper rifles for use in WWII and the Sino-Japanese War.

Type 99 arisaka with anti aircraft sight