Arisaka Serial Numbers By Year List
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Model: Arisaka, Type 99 Serial Number: 60425 Year of Manufacture: 1939 - 1943 Caliber: 7.7x58mm (7.7 Jap) Action Type: Bolt Action, Internal Magazine Markings: There is no visible import mark. The top of the receiver has had its “chrysanthemum” (the Imperial ownership seal) defaced with a large “X”. Rich 46 says: 10 Jun 2013 03:13:36 PM I just purchased an Arisaka model 38 rifle. Full mum but I do not know the date of manufacture (serial number is 2028618). I am also missing the hand guard and that is a bit confusing for me since the exposed barrel is faded from the top of the rear site to four inches of the muzzle.

Type38 Carbine

At a gun show in September, 2005 aguy who knew I was into Japanese stuff offered me this Type 38 carbine for agood price. I had never seen one before, but loved it. It’s a really light,handy little package. The barrel length is just 480 mm, or 18.9”. The bolt hadbeen modified into a turned-down configuration, so I replaced the bolt withanother one from a junker Type 38 carbine I bought (see below) and found a dustcover for it.

Here is the right side with the dustcover. You can see it still has the original cleaning rod. The overallcondition is only so-so, but it does still have the original cleaning rod. Ihave read that their handy size and light recoil made these carbines popularcapture weapons among US troops. It sounded a lot different than a Garand,though, so they had to be careful not to be mistaken for the enemy.

The left side with the dust cover. Note thatthe sling swivels are mounted on the left side, not the bottom as with Type 38rifles.

Here’s the right side without the dust cover.

The left side without the dust cover.

All the Type 38 rifles and carbines I have seenhave this notch in the right side of the stock. I have no idea why.

The carbine sights are much shorter and “only”go to 2000 metres.

The mum has been ground off, as isusually the case, and only faint traces remain. Below are the characterssan-pachi-shiki,i.e. Type 38. This is a reference to Meiji 38 (1905), the year of its adoption.The two holes are a safety feature on all Arisakas: they vent gases upwards inthe event of a primer or case head rupture.

The serial number and arsenalmarking are on the left side of the receiver. The serial number of 196610 isfairly late, as the highest known for this arsenal is 211825. The “fourcannonballs” mark, which looks like a cloverleaf, indicates the Koishikawa Arsenal in Tokyo. Later the same symbol was used byKokura Arsenal, which has led to no end of confusion among North Americancollectors. The last two symbols on the right are inspection marks.

In the Honeycutt & Anthony book,p. 15,it says the triangle in a circleindicates 10% overload proof. The plain circle is listed as an indication ofacceptance according to a special wartime inspection standard.

Here is another of the triangles ina circle. The S is supposed to have the same meaning, i.e. 10% overload proof.

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This design on the back of thesafety is similar to the one on the bolt lock/striker spring guide on PapaNambus. As a purely decorative image it seems somewhat extravagant for a militaryrifle. This is the proper small-tang safety for this series of Type 38 carbine.Others used a larger tang or a notch.

The cleaning rod.

A close-up of the interesting end of thecleaning rod. The other end is just threaded.

The most obvious flaw in the gun isone I didn’t even notice until I got it home: this crack in the top of theforestock, which has been rather inexpertly repaired with what looks likeplastic wood.

As noted above, when I got this carbine it hadthe bolt turned down. This is it as I purchased it.

The left side as I got it.

With the bolt replaced with one ofthe original configuration, the only external sign of the former modificationis this notch in the stock to provide clearance for the old turned-down bolt.

Inside there is one other left-overmodification: the rear of the magazine follower has been rounded off so thatthe bolt does not lock back on it when the magazine is empty.

I have purchased three other junkerType 38 carbines as parts guns. This photo is to remind me of what I have; it won’tbe of much interest to others. The top gun has a homemade stock, the length ofwhich is better for me than the original. The middle gun has a T38 carbineaction but the stock was cut down from a T38 rifle and the butt plate is fromsomething else, as it has a trapdoor in it. The bottom one is just the metalparts with no stock. Parts are very hard to come by up here and getting harderto import from the USA,so no, I am not interested in selling any of the parts. Please don’t ask.

Arisaka Serial Numbers By Year List

The serial number from the top carbine with thehome-made stock. It is another Koishikawa (Tokyo) example.

The middle carbine has the seriesmarker ni in a circle at the far left(ni looks like an equal sign), thenthe serial number, then the Nagoya Arsenal mark, which looks like a top-heavy 8in a circle. Ni indicates the fourthseries, as it is the fourth symbol in the Japanese katakana “alphabet”according to the traditional i-ro-hapoetic arrangement. These prefixes were used to keep serial numbers down tofive digits. This series of carbine was made at the Chigusa factory of NagoyaArsenal.

Though the middle carbine has littleelse to recommend it, it does still have an intact mum. Since riflessurrendered to the Americans at the end of the war usually had the mum groundoff, ones that still have it were usually either captured in battle before thewar ended or surrendered to the Chinese and imported after the war.

Arisaka Serial Numbers

The bottom carbine action has theseries marker ro (second series), the serial number, and the Kokura arsenalmark formerly used by Tokyo(Koishikawa). The small marks at the far right are inspection marks.

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One of the less common Japanese rifles of the WWII era is the Type I (pronounced “Type Eye”). The Japanese Imperial Army and Navy procured small arms independently of each other, and the Army received priority as the ground war in China escalated. This left the Navy short of rifles and unable to get