Flipped up, it has another aperture intended for 300-meter work and more than 1,500 meters worth of upward adjustment for volley-fire maneuvers. Folded, the sight has a ghost-ring aperture that mates perfectly with the triangle-shaped front sight. This rifle’s sight was manufactured without the fold-out wings that theoretically provided Japanese soldiers with the ability to lead a passing aircraft.
Posting a six-inch black bullseye at 100 yards and resting over sandbags fore and aft, I wasted two precious shots into the ground below the target.Īrisakas of this generation are fitted with a rather sophisticated ladder-type rear sight. I had a half-box of Norma cartridges loaded with 174-grain softpoint bullets on hand. RangetimeĪmmo for a 7.7x58 Arisaka is obtainable but not common. It’s now dark with patina, as if it had laid on a shelf in a garage for three-quarters of a century-which it probably did. However, it makes sense that it probably was. It’s not serial-numbered, so there’s no knowing if it was originally issued with the rifle. There’s a bayonet with this Arisaka, too, with the correct arsenal markings. Additionally, it appears that the stock’s resinous original finish was sanded off. The fore-end and barrel were cut shorter, the muzzle was recrowned, and the front sight was reinstalled on the shortened barrel with its protective “ears” ground off. Like many wartime rifles, this Arisaka was “sporterized” to make it more suitable for hunting. Whatever the Marine’s reason for keeping the rifle, it wasn’t enough for him to keep it pristine. This indicates the rifle was a genuine battlefield pickup. Unlike most Arisakas, which had the Imperial Chrysanthemum stamp that designated them as the Japanese Emperor’s property ground off the front receiver ring before they were surrendered, this rifle’s “mum” is intact. He fought on Iwo Jima and picked up this Type 99 there. It belongs to an acquaintance, whose father carried a flame-thrower in the South Pacific. In all, some 3.5 million were made.īecause this rifle has been sporterized, it is valued somewhere around $300, but it’s special just the same. It was chambered in two cartridges: the Type 38 in 6.5x50 and the Type 99 (shown here) in 7.7x58. Adopted by the Japanese military in 1897, the Arisaka is a bolt-action battle rifle that fought through two world wars and numerous other conflicts.
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