He did say the mum was ground off indicating a surrendered soldiers weapon. Maybe that individual did it himself so he didn't pick up the wrong rifle.. I know I'm reaching now..
He did say the mum was ground off indicating a surrendered soldiers weapon. Maybe that individual did it himself so he didn't pick up the wrong rifle.. I know I'm reaching now..
Yeah that's a whole other thread for a different forum. I'm sure that abbreviation will devastate someone's dignity soon enough.by MAP
From what i understand, Mums were ground off for other reasons besides vets picking them out of piles of turned in weapons after the surrender. When taken out of service and sold/given to other countries or schools, the Mums were ground or modified as well.He did say the mum was ground off indicating a surrendered soldiers weapon. Maybe that individual did it himself so he didn't pick up the wrong rifle.. I know I'm reaching now..
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I did not know that! My lesson for the day. Thanks Map.
The ground mum is a totally different issue - lots of back and forth on the subject. "Well at the end of the war, Mac told everyone to ground off the mums as a sign of respect" doesn't really hold up as one of the big japanese battleships that was sunk at Bikini Atoll had a huge mum on its deck - and this was well post war. Plus if he issued the order, where is the proof of it? So essay aside, the mums on Japanese rifles were ground for seemingly a wide variety of reasons.
A couple things - this is a Arisaka type 38 not a 99, and as such never had anti aircraft sights.
Secondly, this is most likely a school training rifle, with the buttstock number most likely being a rack number of sorts. I have one from my Grandpa that looks almost exactly like the aforementioned rifle, only it has "for training" in kanji on the buttstock.
As to value, up to you. A rifle that may be $200 in the US may easily go for several times that in another country... look at the SVT-40.. easily a $1,000 rifle in the US. $300 in canada (apparently)
I dont believe the type 38's had aircraft sights that early? and yes dust cover matches. As for availability in canada this is only the 3 arisaka ive ever seen in my several years collecting, they sedomly come up, for some reason the Canadians didnt get the same surplus as the states and so most of the cost to these is tied up in importing licenses etc.
sorry i didnt realize i typed it out like that, guess i was in a hurry to finish the thread, didnt mean any offence by it and it is corrected. Thanks for the heads up
that would make sense. Althought its odd it isnt written in japanese.
Yeah, there goes my theory.. NEXT!!
this seems more likely than the IJA doing it as you would thing it would be in japanese and not germanic.He did say the mum was ground off indicating a surrendered soldiers weapon. Maybe that individual did it himself so he didn't pick up the wrong rifle.. I know I'm reaching now..
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