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The most common Japanese sniper rifle of World War II was the Type 97, essentially a Type 38 Arisaka rifle with a 2.5x telescopic sight mounted to the side of the receiver. About 22,000 of them were made in total (a smaller number of Type 99 sniper rifles were also made). The scope on the Type 97 was zeroed at the factory, and had no external adjustments for windage or elevation. They were chambered for the 6.5x50SR Japanese cartridge, which produced virtually no smoke or flash from the long barrel of the Type or Type 97, making is a difficult rifle to spot (it also had a quite mild report relative to other contemporary weapons). Virtually all of these rifles in the US today have mismatched scopes, which generally means that they will not shoot to point of aim (this one's windage is way off). http://www.forgottenweapons.com
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I actually have a type 99 or type 97 but no scope or mono pod and i have yet to be able to shoot it because i have no amo for it. And does yours have the ground of Japanese markings on the top of the receiver?
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Wait. He shoots left??
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I found a buried Type 97 today ( I live on the Island of Saipan). Very corroded-no stock-but very cool still has the monopod
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How to tell when you are using a Japanese rifle: you police your brass like a Stasi Agent. Shame since it is so lovely a bullet and much more practical than most.
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Are you firing one round at a time to save the brass or are you having feeding problems like TFB TV did with their run and gun video?
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whats the grouping with this rifle? or just wasting ammo? hmmm
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当時の日本の職人技術の一端を紹介して下さり とてもありがとうござます
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Basically all WW1 and WW2 rifles were capable of being used as sniper rifles, like the German Mauser 98K, the American M1 Garand and Springfield 1903, the Japanese Type 38 Arisaka, the British Lee-Enfield or Russian Mosin–Nagant. They all still emphasized great accuracy over long distances and, apart from the M1 Garand, were all bolt-action rifles with a low rate of fire. Essentially all you had to do was mount a scope, adjust it and you had a quite decent sniper rifle.
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So the Japanese accidentally implemented flash hiding capabilities with these rifles? That's awesome.
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That does look like a beauty
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I believe I read in the book Guadalcanal Diary how the long Japanese .25 caliber rifles were so hard to spot since they made hardly any smoke or muzzle flashes when fired and that gave the Japanese a tremendous advantage in jungle fighting.
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Ian i have a question. would a Type 99 Arisaka front sight be compatible with a Type 38?
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Sniper is the person who fires the sniper rifle.... Hurts to keep hearing the word crime over and over again... Oh and we Finns used trees for sniping all the time in WW2.
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want to know why most of the scopes are mismatched?
My grandfather almost got killed by one of these in WWII in the Philippines.
He brought the rifle back as a souvenir, they did not let him bring the scope into the country. -
The spent casings didnt eject automatically out of these rifles?
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I'm thinking the vertical range line is canted to correct for ballistic drift due to the spin of the projectile, not because of sight parallax. Consider that the sight is what, three inches off bore and is boresighted at 300 yards. That means the difference between line of sight and line of flight will only be off by the same three inches, in the opposite direction, at 600 yards. That equates to the thickness of the reticle line being used to aim the weapon.
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Is he shooting normal loads or reduced "sniper" loads?
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Hey Ian, when you retract the bolt it doesn't seem to eject the empty brass itself and you are doing it manually. Is that a built in feature for Arisaka snipers?
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look my grandpa never lied but just like the 5.56 and the 22cal the types 38 surplus round had a 75 chance of tumbling it was not made to tumble it was only realized by GI'S who brought them back as the
loot but then realized the round worked very good as a hunting round that's why a lot of Arasaka where sporterized and used for hunting. But my people didn't notice the effect of the T38 's round Intel after the war. but it is very different from the T99 's round the t99 s round is much the same size as 30.06 it's a heavy round made for smashing threw was and killing men behind them just like the 30.06 -
Italy, (Beretta, maybe?), made one for the Japs in ww2. It was basically a Carcano/ Mauser/ Arisaki design with a long barrel, but chambered for 6.5 Jap. Don't know if the barrel was the typical Carcano gain-twist rifling, tho. Some of these were nickel plated.