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    What is on my Arisaka Stock? Ideographs?

    Attachment 28682Attachment 28683Attachment 28684Attachment 28685I need help with info on this rifle. What does the stock say?
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    Sorry, can't help on the characters... but that is a very interesting rifle!
    Thanks for sharing

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    Red Chinese "capture"?

    Sitting here in the hospital library, I do not have access to my sources of Oriental know-how. But I suspect that might be a Communist Chinese "capture". I have the remains of a Chinese Mauser at home, and it is the other only rifle I have seen up to now with such massive markings.

    Maybe that will help someone to look in the right places. If nobody can come up with anything more plausible in the meantime, I'll make a search when I finally get home!


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    Someone else can have a go!

    OK, I just looked through more than 1000 Kanji signs, and couldn't find a match. (many/most Kanjis have a Chinese interpretation). If anyone has the access and the patience to check through 10000s of Chinese ideographs, they're welcome. I'm beaten on this one!


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    I saw a rifle very similar to this one at a gun show recently. The seller informed me that the star and characters were North Korean, and then it ended up in Vietnam some way or another. So might want to look for a Korean translation. Very interesting rifle, to say the least..WW2, possibly Korean conflict, maybe Vietnam..I hope you get some info on it, eager to hear about it. Good luck!

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    It doesn't LOOK like Korean. Some sort of Kanji.

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    Japanese-Korean-Chinese? Quien sabe?

    The snag is, that the Koreans also use a lot of Chinese characters! So unless we have a better idea of which country applied those marks, it's an extra-tough problem, requiring a milsurp expert who is also fluent in Oriental languages. If there is one lurking out there, please speak up!


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    Interesting rifle. Was the ID tag attached when you got it? Looks like maybe it was on display somewhere.

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    If I can make a suggestion? Make a pencil tracing of or take a photo of the stock marking to your local Chinese or Japaneseicon restaurant and I'll bet you get your answer. If the kanji could not be found amongst the thousands then it may very well be a personal name.
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