I'll Show You Mine If You'll Show Me Yours (Part Deux)
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Just got myself a Japanese Type 38 with an intact Mum!
I haven't got much info. on it yet. I may update this as I find info.
Can anybody tell me about this sword? I may be buying it from the same guy I bought the rifle from.
I left the photos large to show detail.
I haven't got much info. on it yet. I may update this as I find info.
Can anybody tell me about this sword? I may be buying it from the same guy I bought the rifle from.
I left the photos large to show detail.
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Take the haft off and transcribe any markings there. That'll tell you if the blade's anything special. The haft looks like fairly standard military issue from the immediate pre-WWII era.
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If you don't buy it, let me know what the guy is asking, please.
also, could you take a lot of photos of the bolt mechanism of the rifle for us please.
also, could you take a lot of photos of the bolt mechanism of the rifle for us please.
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I want to buy it, but I think he's going to end up wanting a lot for it. He's going Friday to show it to some one who literally wrote a book on these.
Here are some photos. I also have a Type 99 if you want photos of it, but it's Mum has been scrubbed. I made them large because I thought you'd want details.
That is the serial number, not the year. It was made in, or around 1933 at the Nagoya Arsenal.
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Nice T38. Mine's similar, intact 'mum, and a Nagoya rifle. Unfortunately, my rifle has a neatly done but nonetheless shortened/bubba'd/sporterized forestock and is also missing the dust cover, destroying the resale value.... and it's not something that I have any use for.
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The first Arisaka I ever found was a Type 38 like you described. I couldn't bring myself to pay the $75 he wanted. It's value at that point is mainly as a shooter. With the price of ammo on these it's hard to justify. Heck I paid $65 for my Type 99 with only a scrubbed MUM, and missing the cleaning rod, monopod, and dust cover.
Heck, here is a pic of it. I added a repro. dust cover, and cleaning rod.
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While I think it's great that more people from the back woods of Maine have upgraded from crank phones so they can access the internet ... I'm a little pissed that post 1911 was an AK.
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Maybe this will make you feel better:
(Better late than never)
Thank you Floyd, I needed that.
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Well done,Thetoad is impressed.By the way,do you know where I could pick up Winston's Umbrella Gun??
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A bit crappy picture from crappy camera taken half a year ago =) Getting the cold staying outside for a few days in -15*c feeling.. Still, its mine: MINE!
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