#Type 99 arisaka fixed rear sight series#

Development of the Type 99 service rifle was the product of an evolution that began with the adoption of Nariakira ArisakaвЂ™s Type 30 in 1897, and continued with the adoption of Kijir NambuвЂ™s.

#Type 99 arisaka fixed rear sight series#

This specific rifle is a transitional last ditch Toyo Kogyo 33rd series Type 99. It was the same basic design as the T-99 but in smaller caliber and much longer barrel. A view of the action and rear sight of the Type 99 Arisaka. The Type 38 was by far the most used Japanese WW2 rifle. Amazingly, even though hundreds of thousands of T-99's were made, they were not used all that much till late in the war. Not a bad rifle at all, but I would hesitate to call it the best bolt battle rifle of the war. The straight bolt handle, while easy to manipulate, stuck out and could be in the way. The safety was odd and somewhat difficult to apply, but since you pressed the the entire rear portion of the bolt and turned, it probably took little training or time to do it. The butt was a dovetailed 2 piece design to attempt to strengthen the stock also. The stock material was always inferior and broke easily, even with the extended rear tang and trigger guard to reinforce the stock. However the standard rear sight was pretty easy to use. They were the longest rifles among their contemporaries even before the 400-mm Type 30 bayonets were attached, making them rather unwieldy the length of the rifles reflected the emphasis of bayonet fighting in. The early ones with the anti-aircraft sights and folding monopod, those 2 items were useless and came off later models as did the sliding bolt cover. Peter Chen ww2dbase The Arisaka Type 38 bolt-action rifles, also known as Meiji 38th Year (1905) rifles, were the standard infantry rifles of the pre-WW2 Japanese Army. While a very strong action and good design, it had some less than adequate features in my opinion.

I have owned a lot of Type 99's over the years, still have one. Sure did love anything that bore the name Browning though. He hated the Japanese until the day he died. Something about the steel they were made from being second rate. 30-06 AP ammo would make the armor spall bad enough on the inside that the crew of the tank would have been in bad shape if they ran up on something belt fed. 50 API 'made them go up like a roman candle.'. 50's made swiss cheese of everything but the frontal armor, and. They wanted to know how tough the armor was on the tanks, so shot at them with various weapons. The next day, their commander wanted to take a closer look at the tanks, so they were dragged back to a rear area and inspected. He told me a story one time of how they knocked out two Jap tanks with a Browning. Got Malaria on Okinawa, and finished the war loading bombs onto Army Air Corps B-29's. He fought in New Guinea, the Phillipines, and Okinawa. He was a big fellow, so he spent a lot of time toting machine guns of one type or another, primarily a BAR.