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Siamese Type 66 Arisaka
Hi all,
Well I just made a purchase of a Siamese Type 66 Arisaka that a gun store had mislabelled as a Siamese Type 45 Mauser. Still waiting for it to get here but I am actually fairly excited to see it as it is somewhat of a mix of Arisaka and Mauser features (possibly a better arrangement of the Arisaka design in terms of sighting system).
Heres the photos I have of it, I'll take a few when it arrives. Siamese Type 45 Rifle
Curious as to if anyone has any experience with these rifles?
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11-16-2020 09:44 AM
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Very unique and interesting rifles. Stumbled across mine recently. Not common around here. Feel fortunate.
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Very nice rifle.
Waiting for pictures of Eagles’ now.
34a cp., btg. Susa, 3° rgt. Alpini
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There is some photos of the specific rifle I am getting on the link in the first post.
Nice Type 45/66 Mauser. Those are a bit more common around here as I think only a limited number made it into the USA before you guys banned them coming in. I am pretty excited for this Arisaka as I guess when they adopted the new 8x52r cartridge they also ordered about 50k of these Arisaka variants to supplement the Mausers they had. I have only seen about 3 of these Arisaka variants for sale over the years, one of them being this one. They advertised this example as a Type 45 Mauser, and I would have overlooked it myself if it wasn't for the fact I was just checking to see if it was a Type 45 or 45/66 by looking at the rear sight ramp and being completely surprised as the rear sight ramp on this looks nothing like the Type 45 or 45/66 variants from the side.
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Interesting. I have one of the 45/66 rifles myself.
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