type 99 with one piece stock

[Aragorn243]

A lot less wastage with two piece stocks. I have read that some rifles made for the navy had one piece stocks but these are marked with an anchor rather than the mum.

[bearrowland]

I would imagine, too, that long blanks of wood were hard to come by in wartime Japan.

[seabot2]

It does make economic sense to keep waste to a minimum by using the two piece stocks. But the initial decision was made during a time when wood must have been plentiful. Type 30 rifles during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 were already two piece like the T38s and T99s. China had wood similar to the Japanese gunstock woods of beech, kurumi, and katsura, and a lot were shipped to Japan prior to WW2. The smaller buttstock piece seems to have been made separately and fitted on during assembly. If they ran out of the smaller piece,I guess they would have to go with a one piece stock.

[69 Stang]

I also have a type 99 with a one piece stock. Mine is also a series 5. I sent pics. to Don who wrote the type 99 book. He confirmed my 99 had a one piece stock with all the correct stock markings. Rare gun. He was suppose to put the pics in his last book but somehow it was left out. Anyway he has the pics I sent him.