If there is not a “mum” but another marking like the Starpictured below you should start looking for a few other indicators.Ģ) If it wasbuilt as a battle rifle it will have spiraled groves cut in the bore this isthe rifling that imparts spin on the bullet as it travels down the bore. What my goal here is not to sell how great the Arisaka butto go over some of the big differences in what to look for when you are buyingor getting ready to fire one of these fine rifles.ġ) Look for a chrysanthemum often called a “mum”even if it was totally defaced there should still be something there markingwhere it was. Now days there is more interest in these weapons and forgood reason, we now know that they are a very robust weapon capable of handlingmore powerful loads that the standard issue calibers as well as a host of otherreasons.
After the war there waslittle interest in learning anything about these weapons many were badly abusedduring and after the war, very little ammunition was ever brought over, as wellas “chicken scratch” or more properly known as Kanji written all over the sidesof these weapons that few people could read. Many times the returning GI didn’tknow one from the other it was simply a “Jap rifle”. It is a simple reliable rifle that has little recoiland fires a 139 grain 6.5x50mm bullet around 2500 FPS.Īfter the war returning vets were allowed to bring homecaptured rifles in the mix of Type 38 and Type 99 rifles and many others werethousands of TRAINING RIFLES that look like the battle rifle, function like thebattle rifle but are made to fire BLANKS only. The Type 38 will be the example that I usehere (because it is what I have to take pictures of) The Type 38 was the mainbattle rifle issued by the Japanese army at the outbreak of U.S. Such as producing bothBattle rifles and Training rifles that while they were cut to the same caliberthey could not use the same ammunition.
During early part of the 20 th century The Japanesegovernment did a lot of things that can affect us now.
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