If you're into old guns with cool histories, then you can find several vintage Arisaka Type 99 guns for sale on eBay to add to your collection. After the cease-fire, many service members brought back numerous Arisaka 99 rifles for collection purposes. There are a few minor marks on the barrel and stock, and the bluing on the barrel seems great but has a slight red tint (does not appear to be rust), and no pitting. The Arisaka 99 was one of two rifles used by the Japanese in World War II. Description: SPORTERIZED - Arisaka Type 99 Howa/Jyuko Arsenal, 7.7mm Arisaka Caliber, Bolt Action Rifle, 24' Barrel, Scope Mounts. The rifles made into snipers were given no special selection criteria simply taken at random from normal production. Howa Arisaka Type 99 Sporterized 7.7mm Rifle. 4 The New 7.7x58mm Cartridge and the Type 99 Rifle. The 7.7x58 was loaded with a 181 grain bullet giving around 2400fps from the Type 99’s 25.75 barrel. Many Type 38 rifles were also upgraded, bearing the designation Type 38/99. 3 Once Again, Combat Experience Forces Change. The Type 38 rifle was redesigned to fire the 7.7mm cartridge, the new rifle being designated Type 99 Arisaka. It was 38.25 long, chambered for a 6.5 mm cartridge, and looked exactly like the Type 38 carbine except for One key difference. Arisaka Type 99 (Rifle) 1939 COLD WAR KOREAN WAR WORLD WAR 2.
TYPE 99 ARISAKA SCOPE MOUNT SERIAL NUMBERS
Nagoya would produce approximately 10,000 of these rifles, with 4x scopes except for a period between serial numbers 5,000 and 7,000 with 2.5x scopes (most likely the remainder stored at Kokura when that plant ceased production). The model 99 was a 7.7 mm, 50.25 long Type 99 with the turned down bolt, monopod, and 2.5x scope left mounted. About 1,000 of the scoped 99s were manufactured by the Kokura Arsenal using the same 2.5x scope as on the Type 97 sniper, while the Nagoya Arsenal instead used a 4x scope, offering more magnification at the expense of a narrower field of view. Testing through 1941 determined that there was almost no practical difference in accuracy between scoped examples of the Type 99 long and short rifles, and so the short rifle was chosen to be the basis for the Type 99 sniper (the Type 99 long rifles would drop from production altogether pretty quickly anyway). In 1941, shortly after the adoption of the new 7.7mm rifle cartridge, it was decided that a sniper rifle variant of the Type 99 should be made in addition to the Type 97 (which was basically a scoped Type 38). The Japanese Army made significant use of snipers (or in today’s terminology, designated marksmen) as part of its infantry combined arms doctrine, and produced about 22,000 Type 97 sniper rifles for use in WWII and the Sino-Japanese War.
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