Shot my Type 99
- Thread starter M5-Shogun
- Start date
- Status
GunnyUSMC
Member
That’s what I thought, but just had to pull your leg a little.
eastbank
Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 5,020
if you look around and take your time to hunt, very good condition 99,s are out there and as they have crome bores most I have looked at had very good to ex condition bores. when I look at one I check the bore and for matching numbers then over all out side condition. you can very quickly weed out the ones that don,t made the grade. I was-am glad to see japanese war firearms finely come into their own along with other firearms of war. when I was a young collector(50-60 years ago) Japanese,russian Italian weopens of war were considered trash and were not worth collecting or only for a very poor collector(better than any thing). I,m glad times have changed for all weopens of war and the history they bring with them.
Attachments
Last edited:
GunnyUSMC
Member
But this also depends on where you live. Here in south Louisiana Japanese rifles are not that easy to come by.
I remember seeing Type 99s for $300 over ten years ago at gun shows.
theotherwaldo
Member
I've only got three Carcanos - an M91, a Finn M38 and a Type I.
Don't ask me why, but I picked up bayonets to match.
Don't ask me why, but I picked up bayonets to match.
eastbank
Member
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2009
- Messages
- 5,020
I would think Japanese items would be easier to find on the west coast after the war as most Japanese war veterans came home there and that more german-italian items would be found on the east coast for the same reason. I remember being told by a veteran he traded a real nice matching german luger at a bar for a case of beer right after the war and there was a bar-restaurant here that had many ww-2 rifles-pistols-daggers-bayonets on display on the walls of the dinning room, I remember eating there several times at a child of 9-10 and was impressed at the time.
Last edited:
- Status
