Can Anyone Please Help Identify This Rifle?

[fguffey]

Most were stored in warehouses and never issued? I will have to consider the possibility the smoke holes were drilled into the receiver before being issued. After all the Japanese were fans of the smoke hole on top. Again, I found the holes on top of the receiver convenient when testing a rifle. I cover the smoke hole with a white towel.

F. Guffey

 

[Jim K]

I think there is some confusion from not knowing the difference between an Arisaka Type 38 and a Type I. Someone who has never seen either one except in a book might well make that mistake.

Jim

 

[fguffey]

That could be true if one rifle did not have an open slot in the rear receiver ring. I recall someone saying something about the difference in the 30/40 Crag and the 03. Seems he thought the 30/40 was the one with the slot in the rear receiver bridge. And then someone found a few 03s with slots.

F. Guffey

 

[Jim K]

My ignorance, I guess. I was under the impression that both the Type 38 and the Type I had slots in the rear receiver ring, full in the Type I, partial in the Type 38. Again, see:

http://members.shaw.ca/nambuworld/typeipix.htm

Jim