![]() ![]() ![]() The major internal workings were concentrated at the rear of the receiver with the long barrel taking up most of the gun's running length towards the front. Its overall appearance was highly conventional featuring a long running wooden frame banded in two points. Rate-of-fire was about 30 rounds-a-minute in the hands of a trained shooter.Įmpty weight of the weapon became a manageable 8.7lb. ![]() The standard cartridge for the Type 38 became the 6.5mm / 50mm Arisaka round fired from a basic 5-round box magazine. The ensuing action ejected a spent cartridge from the chamber and introduced a fresh cartridge in turn. The Type 38 was a manually-operated bolt-action rifle, requiring the operator to actuate a bolt handle found on the receiver. This gave the common soldier a cultural connection to the Samurai warrior class that was still of great pride to the Imperial Japanese Army of the day. The Rifle Type 99 used a 7.7mm cartridge and had a folding monopod for stability when firing at troops (some are thought to even have been used to engage low-flying aircraft).Īs all service rifles and bayonets were the property of the Japanese Emperor, each were stamped with the sixteen petal chrysanthemum on the receiver (for the rifle) and on the blade (for the bayonet). The Rifle Type 97 utilized a telescopic sight and was issued to specialist sniper units for precision ranged fire. Similarly an airborne / paratrooper model was produced but with a folding buttstock to give an even more compact form. In this form, the overall length was reduced to 966mm. These design problems lead to different versions of the same rifle being produced that included the shortened Type 38 Carbine issued to "non-combat" troops. The small stature of the average Japanese soldier also required a comparatively small caliber cartridge of less powder charge to help contain recoil when the weapon was fired from the shoulder. However, the average Japanese infantryman still only stood at about 5 feet, 3 inches and thus there would be inherent difficulties when handling such a long weapon. ![]() The additional 20-inches gained by the installed bayonet gave the Japanese soldier a definitive reach against a target when close-quarters fighting ensued. In all, the rifle measured some 4 feet, 2 inches long and was one of the longest such weapons still in service by the time of the Second World War (1939-1945). The Type 38 rifle was a "long gun" and optimized to use the Type 30 infantry bayonet set at the barrel. The Type 38 was adopted into Imperial Japanese Service in 1905. What the value of a 1943 japanese arisaka type 38 carbine series#Wartime records would go on to show that some 3,400,000 of the guns were ultimately produced and the series saw active service with elements outside of the Empire - including those belonging to Britain, Thailand, the Russian Empire / Soviet Union, and China. The rifle had an inherently high accuracy rate and proved very reliable in even the most adverse conditions found on the modern battlefield - particularly in the jungle fighting of Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Theater. If you are looking for a superior example of this legendary Japanese WW2 Rifle this is what you are looking for.The Arisaka Type 38 (Rifle, Meiji 38th Year) was the standard rifle issued to the Imperial Japanese infantry by the time of the fighting of World War 1 (1914-1918). You may well imagine how pleased we were to find this fine example that still has the original matching numbered dust cover, the sling and still has the crest. This is a very tough rifle to get in any kind of high condition, when we see mint ones the Imperial Crest is almost always defaced and most of the Rifles found with the Mum intact have seen a lot of hard combat use. Indeed many veteran old line Army units refused to give it up for the Type 99, it was held in such high regard. The Type 38 Rifle stayed in front line service throughout the entire Second World War. The early war years with all those runaway victories were won with a bayonet at the end of a Type 38 Long Rifle. While we think of the Type 99 as THE Japanese Infantry Rifle of WW2, It did not reach the troops in any significant quantity until mid 1942. The Type 38 was the primary Japanese Infantry rifle from 1905 through at least 1942 when it was slowly began to be superseded by the new service rifle, the Type 99 7.7m/m Rifle. Adding about $250 to the value of this rifle is the excellent & scarce brass muzzle cover that is still on the rifle! The bore is excellent and this rifle is all matching and shows rework markings as is common with these early rifles. In excellent all matching INCLUDING THE DUST COVER! condition, we have prime example of a mid 1930’s production 22nd series Kokura Arsenal Arisaka Type 38 6.5mm Service Rifle. ![]()
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