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Picked up my first Type 38 carbine and a Jinsen Type 99
Saw an ad for the carbine on a local forum for $125. Doesn't match and is ground, and looks like somebody sanded down the buttstock but only around the buttplate. Oh well, it's my first Type 38 carbine and should make a nice shooter.
The guy mentioned that he had a substitute standard Type 99 also, so even though I wasn't planning on buying another Type 99, I asked to look at it. Turned out to be a matching Jinsen, somewhere in the middle of the series, wood buttplate, welded safety, etc... The barrel bands aren't welded but have one single screw holding them on. The rifle was fired by it's previous owner so I may give it a shot.
I'll get some pictures up later, after I get back home.
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03-05-2012 03:33 PM
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I paid $125 for the carbine and $130 for the Jinsen 99, I think that's OK based on what I've seen on Gunbroker. These were really an impulse buy, and I feel a bit conflicted about buying more Arisakas when I still don't have a single one with an intact chrysanthemum....
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What you paid seems ok to me. Hard to go wrong for prices that low. I'm in the market for Japanese
rifles right now too and am in the same boat of not having one with the chrysanthemum. Seems like they get that little item and the price goes from $125 to $425 real fast. The type 38 stock coloration looks very light to what I'm used to with these. I would suspect a refinish job on that one but I really have almost no experience with these. I finally broke down and bought a ground type 99 just to have an example of one. I'm going to try to hold out for an intact 38 but as I almost never see one of this type locally, may be a hard pick up for me.
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Yeah, the Type 38 has definitely been refinished. Somebody sanded down the stock around the buttplate pretty bad, making the steel buttplate not fit very well. They put some sort of finish on it too, didn't cut it or mess with anything else, so I guess it isn't the worst it could be, but it definitely makes this thing a shooter, no more.
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