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#1
03-20-2017, 02:54 PM
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Sigh..........What a shame....
Was in the gun store today, saw a T-99 Arisaka on the used rack. It was in bad shape, it was missing the magazine follower and spring, and the lower guide rails look like someone had been at them with a hammer.
Front sight ears were broken, cleaning rod missing. As an added bonus, the metal was covered in thick black paint, so thick the rear tangent sight was frozen... On the bright side, the stock was an early type and intact. I gave my son the 'bubba' stock for the "Franken-Rifle" I put together for him last year, and this was a chance to get a unmolested stock for it. So, negotiating back and forth, I got the rifle for slightly less than I would have paid for a complete stock + shipping from one of the parts places that carries that kind of stuff. Brought it home, and started taking it apart..... ...and realized I could unscrew the barrel by hand.....So I did..... Brought out the acetone, and started removing the paint from the receiver and get a better look at the markings.... And got that sick feeling after cleaning the markings that it is a Nagoya (Tokyo) Arsenal, Series 0... Nagoya was the first factory that made the T-99, and Series 0 makes it the first production run....... ...and it has a serial number less than 50k, which puts it in the first month or two of production, and dates it before Pearl Harbor... I hate you Bubba.....
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#2
03-20-2017, 04:08 PM
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Would you take $75 for it? It does have coats of paint on it... and it IS in pretty bad shape. And I would NEVER want an Arisaka 99 with the Chrysanthemum still on it... But if it IS there... I'll give you $75.
How's that for sarcasm? Don't know what you paid, but I pray it has the Chrysanthemum on it!!! Da 
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03-20-2017, 05:27 PM
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No mum, so it was surrendered.
Found the broken off remains of the anti-aircraft sights.
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#4
03-20-2017, 05:43 PM
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I have a T99. My grandpa brought it back from the war. Mine works great but don't have the rod, airplane sights and the Chrysanthemum is removed from mine as well. But I do have the matching bayonet so that is a plus. They were very crudely made to begin with so I can't imagine how bad this sounds.
Fun to shoot but its a sad reminder of that gun being used on us. I don't get mine out very often and I know my grandpa never shot it, he didn't even like to look at it. I think as he got older it was more of a bad memory rather than a fun bring back.
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03-20-2017, 05:54 PM
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Depending on when it was made, they ranged from very well made, to poorly made. The ones made from late 1944 - 1945 are called 'last ditch' and could almost be considered different rifles.
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03-20-2017, 06:18 PM
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03-20-2017, 06:38 PM
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03-20-2017, 06:58 PM
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03-20-2017, 07:32 PM
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T99
OK bud tell me all about it
 Sorry the stamps are very small. I couln't get the really small one very well at all. Didn't see any other markings on the gun that I could tell anyways. I will put the bayonet in the next post.
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