Riomouse911
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I went to pick up my Model 36-1 that had been reblued by my receiving FFL and I found out they had bought a bunch of guns and artifacts from a collector and had just gone through them.
I was shown a really cool Type 97 Arisaka sniper rifle that was in amazing shape for it’s age and the use it surely saw.
I’ve never seen a mum on the receiver intact, all I’ve seen have been defaced. The gun also had the wire monopod and the often-discarded dust cover still on it. I didn’t post any pics of this gun as they have better ones of the rifle on GB. (Above)
Holding the thing and sighting through the scope was almost eerie. I’m a big reader of WWII history and personal account/memoir books, and the savagery our young men faced in battle against the Japanese was awful. Snipers hiding in holes and crevices that no sane man would fit in killed far too many of our Soldiers and Marines. I hope none fell to the bark of this gun... but with any milsurp the gun tells no tales so one can only imagine the use it saw.
They also had a trove of bayonets from Japanese, Korean and Manchurian manufacture, several type 99 7.7 rifles including a last-ditch production rifle with a hand carved (chipped?) stock, crude sights, bamboo buttplate and welded bolt parts, along with a nice 8mm Nambu pistol.
To balance it out a Smith-Corona made Springfield 03-A3 rifle was also in the shop, so this sort of cancelled out the feeling I got from holding the Japanese sniper rifle.
If I had the $$ I’d have bought the sniper rifle and donated it to the WWII museum in New Orleans. I don’t... so I can’t. Some other lucky collector will hopefully buy it and share it with others.
A neat day indeed.... stay safe.
I went to pick up my Model 36-1 that had been reblued by my receiving FFL and I found out they had bought a bunch of guns and artifacts from a collector and had just gone through them.
I was shown a really cool Type 97 Arisaka sniper rifle that was in amazing shape for it’s age and the use it surely saw.
I’ve never seen a mum on the receiver intact, all I’ve seen have been defaced. The gun also had the wire monopod and the often-discarded dust cover still on it. I didn’t post any pics of this gun as they have better ones of the rifle on GB. (Above)
Holding the thing and sighting through the scope was almost eerie. I’m a big reader of WWII history and personal account/memoir books, and the savagery our young men faced in battle against the Japanese was awful. Snipers hiding in holes and crevices that no sane man would fit in killed far too many of our Soldiers and Marines. I hope none fell to the bark of this gun... but with any milsurp the gun tells no tales so one can only imagine the use it saw.
They also had a trove of bayonets from Japanese, Korean and Manchurian manufacture, several type 99 7.7 rifles including a last-ditch production rifle with a hand carved (chipped?) stock, crude sights, bamboo buttplate and welded bolt parts, along with a nice 8mm Nambu pistol.
To balance it out a Smith-Corona made Springfield 03-A3 rifle was also in the shop, so this sort of cancelled out the feeling I got from holding the Japanese sniper rifle.
If I had the $$ I’d have bought the sniper rifle and donated it to the WWII museum in New Orleans. I don’t... so I can’t. Some other lucky collector will hopefully buy it and share it with others.
A neat day indeed.... stay safe.
