I am helping my neighbor sell her late father's World War II bring back rifle:
a Japanese Arisaka type 99 in the most common length --44 inch overall length with approximately a 27 inch barrel. Chambered in the 7.7 Japanese caliber, and comes with a few rounds of modern soft point commercial ammo
The rifle has an early type 30 bayonet and scabbard. Bayonet has a hooked quillon. The blade is scarred from use around the yard as a machete, and it looks like somebody tried to sharpen it with a rotary tool and had the spinning abrasive disc jump up away from the cutting edge a few times .
This rifle does have the anti-aircraft folding ears on the rear sight, and the front sight has the protective ears /guards around it although one is bent on one side.
The imperial mum has been somewhat defaced by hand tools, which to me is the most desirable kind because it indicates it was defaced in the field by the soldier to which it was issued before the soldier abandoned it and or surrendered this rifle. It was not one of the ones that was collected postwar, stacked in a building for weeks, and then professionally modified with power tools by people who just did that all day long, grinding off the chrysanthemums. The veteran who brought this back from World War II told his family that it was taken --not by him but by other soldiers who served with him-- from a surrendering Japanese soldier.
This rifle does not have a monopod nor is there any dust cover or mud guard over the receiver. (Japanese soldiers usually got rid of those themselves because they rattled and made noise.)
I looked at the rifle today and took these pictures I did not have time to study all the arsenal and production marks I don't think my camera could capture them all very clearly anyway I think I would have to sketch them out on a piece of paper 10 times the actual size but if you want to look at the rifle you can figure that out .
See pics:
Terms: Local face-to-face sales only.
$650 for the rifle and bayonet and scabbard. Cash, no electronic payments.
PS: Nobody alive in this family has ever fired the rifle. The father of the family, the World War II vet who died back around 2010 or so, hadn't shot it himself since the 1970's. I may take a couple test shots one day if I can find the time to take it out to a rifle range where I can shoot it at at least 100 yards, preferably 200 or 300.
It seems to function correctly based on me working the action and dry firing it a couple times.
LOCATION: Cumming, but also close to Gainesville and Dawsonville and Alpharetta.
a Japanese Arisaka type 99 in the most common length --44 inch overall length with approximately a 27 inch barrel. Chambered in the 7.7 Japanese caliber, and comes with a few rounds of modern soft point commercial ammo
The rifle has an early type 30 bayonet and scabbard. Bayonet has a hooked quillon. The blade is scarred from use around the yard as a machete, and it looks like somebody tried to sharpen it with a rotary tool and had the spinning abrasive disc jump up away from the cutting edge a few times .
This rifle does have the anti-aircraft folding ears on the rear sight, and the front sight has the protective ears /guards around it although one is bent on one side.
The imperial mum has been somewhat defaced by hand tools, which to me is the most desirable kind because it indicates it was defaced in the field by the soldier to which it was issued before the soldier abandoned it and or surrendered this rifle. It was not one of the ones that was collected postwar, stacked in a building for weeks, and then professionally modified with power tools by people who just did that all day long, grinding off the chrysanthemums. The veteran who brought this back from World War II told his family that it was taken --not by him but by other soldiers who served with him-- from a surrendering Japanese soldier.
This rifle does not have a monopod nor is there any dust cover or mud guard over the receiver. (Japanese soldiers usually got rid of those themselves because they rattled and made noise.)
I looked at the rifle today and took these pictures I did not have time to study all the arsenal and production marks I don't think my camera could capture them all very clearly anyway I think I would have to sketch them out on a piece of paper 10 times the actual size but if you want to look at the rifle you can figure that out .
See pics:
Terms: Local face-to-face sales only.
$650 for the rifle and bayonet and scabbard. Cash, no electronic payments.
PS: Nobody alive in this family has ever fired the rifle. The father of the family, the World War II vet who died back around 2010 or so, hadn't shot it himself since the 1970's. I may take a couple test shots one day if I can find the time to take it out to a rifle range where I can shoot it at at least 100 yards, preferably 200 or 300.
It seems to function correctly based on me working the action and dry firing it a couple times.
LOCATION: Cumming, but also close to Gainesville and Dawsonville and Alpharetta.
