Type 38 with type 99 bolt?

[Old Joe]

The bolt of the 99 is clearly ground down to fit the 38 and the bolt fits nicely..The Type 38 bolt does not go far enough to lock and the unmodified Type 99 Bolt will not even make it to the magazine well. This is a definatly a Type 38.

My first thought was since the mum was ground and the rifle had an earlier frontsight it was an attempt to get the rifle to work with a different bolt later war.

The other thought was sombody modified it to fire a wildcat round of some sort ...

Thanks for your post, its just Bizzare...