Type 38 With No Stock Grooves?

[TexasCheesehead]

I found this Kokura Type 38 at a garage sale this last weekend. It appears to be a re-finish job as there is some pitting underneath what looks like a re-blue. What's curious is that there are no grooves in the forearm of the stock. The stock appears to have been re-finished with a repaired spot on the top forearm. But the stock doesn't appear to have ever had any finger grooves in the stock. Is this an anomaly? Notice also there is no provision for a cleaning rod.

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[303tom]

The stock was probably supposed to be for a Type 99...................

[jmoore]

No cross bolt at the forward end of the action. Thinking Chinese replacement stock.

[seabot2]

I'd say it is a fair attempt at copying a T38 stock by a do-it-yourselfer. He probably didn't have the jig to cut the finger grooves. Not sure why he put the kanji characters on it though. The characters are not Japanese, maybe Chinese.

[vintage hunter]

No cross bolt at the forward end of the action

Never spied a T38 with a cross bolt, sure you weren't thinking T99?

I'd say it is a fair attempt at copying a T38 stock by a do-it-yourselfer

I tend to agree. Too many missing features and out of spec dimensions for it to be a professional job. As for the stock hieroglyphics I suppose it could be a Chinese DIY project.

[TexasCheesehead]

I kinda suspected it was refurbished, the stock doesn't have that deep red finish like any of my other Arisakas. But I couldn't pass on it. The wife and I were hitting garage sales last weekend in a neighboring city of La Crosse, Wisconsin. At one of the sales in a very nice residential neighborhood, an elderly gentleman and his wife were having a moving sale. I asked the man if he had any guns, gun parts, or ammunition, as I usually do at all garage sales. He told me that he had some guns that he wanted to sell, and took me inside his house.

To make a long story short, I came out of there holding a minty WW1 Lee-Enfield Mk II with bayonet, that Arisaka with a bayonet, and an old 1800's double-barrel 12 gauge with external hammers. I gave him his asking price which was $50 for all three of them.

$50

I also ended up with a very clean WW1 French Gras and a WW1 Swedish M-1914 bayonet for his asking price of $10 each.

Yea, I know. "How can you sleep at night?"

[jmoore]

Never spied a T38 with a cross bolt, sure you weren't thinking T99?

In reply to 303tom's post ,which does have said, even the early "long ones".