Sporterized Arisaka

[riceone]

Weatherby started his impire on an Enfiled 1917 Action for his magnum cartridges. Numerous Gunsmiths built up custom rifles between the two World Wars on military actions. Anyone can go to town and buy a rifle, but how many people can put one together that looks decent from a military. I'm not a gunsmith, just a wood whittler and file and hacksaw man but I have made a few decent rifles. The first one pictures I picked up a chopped up Mauser in Germany in 1955 and had a local German gunsmith make what you see. I did the other two. I like mannlicher stocks. riceone.

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[69 Stang]

That gun in the auction had 45 bidders....so there must be people that liked that gun. Personally I think they ruined it.... but thats just me.

[Aye KAY]

Weatherby started his impire on an Enfiled 1917 Action for his magnum cartridges. Numerous Gunsmiths built up custom rifles between the two World Wars on military actions. Anyone can go to town and buy a rifle, but how many people can put one together that looks decent from a military. I'm not a gunsmith, just a wood whittler and file and hacksaw man but I have made a few decent rifles. The first one pictures I picked up a chopped up Mauser in Germany in 1955 and had a local German gunsmith make what you see. I did the other two. I like mannlicher stocks. riceone.

I like mannlicher stocks too. You have some handsome rifles. I have to say that the Japanese rifle in the first post is pretty ugly.....

[Mike D]

I'm with Thumper on this one, don't like that yellow wood, ughh. And way too much money. All of riceone's sporters look better IMHO, even the one with the bolt that looks like a gynecologist's tool. LOL

[STU1]

i picked up a T38 for $65 that didn't fire, the original barrel's chamber was butchered. i rechambered a new pull off Remington ( RemAsaka) commercial barrel and match chambered it in 7X57 ( 7MM Mauser) mounted the Remington factory front and rear sights on barrel the rifle feeds reliably and will be a tack driver. best thing is it's an unground Mukden that has all matching parts except for the barrel and it was sportered beforehand a moot point, but it functions now and is a neat piece of history that can be shot without any worry about killing it's collectability. still looking for that unground pearl regards

Stu

[greenterror]

My uncle took this rifle home with him from Germany after WWII, My ante give it to me when he passed on recently. my guess is it was conficated, when the American Army searched the homes of Nazi Party Officials. It shoots 7mm Mauser, has a fajen stock and a lyman sight. i hope you liked it. [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG][IMG][/IMG]

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[rondog]

Your uncle brought a Japanese rifle home from Germany?

[me2]

Well, Japan and Germany were allies in WWII so it would'nt be a big stretch of imagination to think a German may have been to Japan on war business and took a likeing to that T-38 and smuggled it home, or if he happened to be an officer simply walked away with it. Stranger things have happened!

[riceone]

Looking at the safety that looks like an early Tokyo T38, could you post picture of the serial number side? Japan sold a bunch of rifles to European countries before the first WW. This could be one of them. I doubt very seriously that this rifle was from Japan during WW2. Can tell by the serial number when it was made. riceone