Japanese Rifle Opportunity to Buy

Can anyone tell me anything about this rifle? I know it is a Japanese 7.7mm rifle but I don't know anything more about it. Any idea of what it would be worth?

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Thanks,
Jeff

not enough info to set a good value, need more info. Does it match and what is the condition of the bore/rifle

Arisaka? Cheers Ross

On your type 99 Arisake. We would need clear close pictures of the whole serial number including the stampings in front of and after the serial number. Then a clear one of the top of the receiver too. Do the numbers match on it and how is the bore?

Scubatke,
There are MANY factors involving the worth of a Japanese rifle. As was mentioned, bore and rifling are important. Clear photos will help us, help you!
Also:
1. Series
2. Refinish of wood
3. Is mum present.

Fortunately for you, the Mum is still present, if only defaced with an X.

I encourage you to get good close photos of the serial number, which will hopefully give you the series!

The X does hurt the mum however not as much as being ground off but it is still not considered "intact"

Think of all the rifles that someone went crazy with a grinder on. Ouch! I have to agree, an "Xed" mum is better than a ground mum.

I think we are all just talking to ourselfs now

Perhaps but when he comes back to check in he'll see all the interest :thup:

Perhaps an exercise in futility at this point but I'll go out on a limb here and assume the bore is fine because it's chrome, that it is a mismatched bolt, a later rifle that did not come with the monopod and aircraft wings which are missing and say that it's worth $150.00 as is, $200.00 if you don't mind the X on the mum.

IMHO, on gunbroker, it would be about a $200-$250 rifle if matching. If not, it's a $150-200 rifle.

I agree. It seems though that the unmatched rifles are picking up in price. Ah, I think back on when I bought them non-matching and ground mum for $15.00 to $20.00, matching with ground mum for $25.00 and $30.00 to $50.00 matching with an intact mum. I used to strap them to the handle bars of my bicycle and ride home half way across town too. Geeze, that would get me shot now ;)

Bill, I didn't know you collected in the early 50's! lol...

In all seriousness, most of my Japanese bayonets cost more than the rifles that go with them back when I bought them. No the rifles cost more - but it took "letters from Iwo Jima" and "The Pacific" to start jacking arisaka prices to normal levels compared to other milsurps.

The last Type 99 I bought was $800! It is a matching early Nagoya vet bring back with all early features present, with bayonet and a bayonet flag, so not too unreasonable, but WAY more than this would have cost just 5 years ago...

Ha Ha!!! Real funny there buddy! Yeah, that was back in the mid 1970s I was 14 or 15 and I used to buy from a guy named Ron who owned Ron's Bicycle Shop on Baker Street and another guy named Mitch at Trader Mitch's just around the corner on 19th Street. Calico Arms was down the block back then. Mitch was a cool guy. How many guys do you know who would sell a rifle to a teenager and then let him cart it home on his 10 speed? Ha Ha Ha!!!

Yeah, when I was a kid I used to be able to ride transit with an un-cased rifle. Not so much anymore :(

You know a thread is dead when it turns into a "back in the day I ........................."

Well, back in the day, I took a high power rifle to school with ammunition because I was going deer hunting with friends afterwards. We almost all had knives in our pockets too, not sometimes but all the time, and we sat and compared them in the classroom.

And to think the most dangerous thing I had to worry about was someone soaking my crotch with one of those fine squirt bottles before I realized it during the dreaded "monsoon season" that hit our high school every spring.

Yep, there was always a shotgun, Ruger 10/22 and ammo in the trunk of my 1970 Dodge Polara. After school hunting excursions were near daily event. Better not even take a picture of a gun to school now!