Today, as an anniversary gift, my wife gave me a Type 38 rifle. It's a kokura series 23 ser. # 17,760 with ground mum and mismatched bolt,minty bore. Headspace is the tightest I've ever seen on an Arisakaicon, won't even begin to close on the no-go and closes with a fair bit of resistance on factory ammo. While cleaning it up I made a list of part numbers and I'm a little stumped. The reciever and floorplate are #'d 17,760, bolt group 215, and the rest, stock, handgard, trigger gard, trigger, sear, upper and lower tangs, mag box, follower, bolt stop, ejector and upper band are #'d 268. What has me puzzled is that the # 268 and a couple Japanese characters are stamped on the bottom of the reciever between the recoil lug and mag well. Was this the Japanese method of force matching parts? I've seen this before but never paid it much attention. Comments and opinions much appreciated.
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