Type 99 "Basement Find"...

[bass6621]

Both very nice rifles!

[enbloc8]

It is hard for me to understand the lack of sentementality of some folks but I suppose without that lack there would not be many milsurps for those of us that do not.
The few items I have from my famlies service are my most prized possessions. Now if I can just determine which of my nieces/nephewes has the gene so my family history does not end up at a garage sale so I can rest in peace.

Well...you never know what was going on within a given family over the years. Sometimes kids got out of the house as fast as they could and never looked back...and when the past inevitably comes back around, for reasons known only to them, they don't want to look back either.

[Tarheeler]

Was at the local gun shop this week and older gentleman walks in with a 7.7, after shop owner told him it wasn't worth his , ask if I could look at it. After he left store caught him in parking lot and he ask me if it was worth 20 bucks. Gave him his money, after a little research its a 21 series Kokura, all matching, bad news is someone tried to open bolt with safety on and broke bolt knob . Will find bolt body and have a nice play toy. Like yours lots of surface rust which came off but does have some pitting. Topped off with old M1 carbine sling

[728shooter]

Well, it was a busy summer for me and haven't had a chance to get back to this until now. Finally found some Hornady 7.7 Jap ammo and gritted my teeth as I paid $35 for a box of 20, but I really wanted to see how this thing would shoot. Went to a local range, figured with my old eyes & open sights, 50 yds. was abound all I needed (or could handle!) My thinking was that this was probably the first time this gun was fired since WWII.

As expected, it shot fairly high from only 50 yds out, which I over-compensated for in the first 2 shots (lower left-right). After that, the next 6 rounds were fairly consistent, all in the upper-right quadrant. Over all, a very good shooter in my opinion, not a "tack-driver", but then again, these old eyes ain't what they used to be!

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