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Japanese Type 44
Japanese Type 44
First Series Kokura Arsenal. Only 8500 or 9000 of this series/arsenal were made depending on what source you look up.
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Re: Japanese Type 44
Damn,thats a really nice looking rifle.
The carbine version of the type 38 was popular enough that they made this variation,with a built in folding bayonet.The type 44 Carbine.Kokura and Nagoya both used the long nosecaps.
Cool little Mannlicher style release button for the floorplate inside the triggerguard.
The carbine version of the type 38 was popular enough that they made this variation,with a built in folding bayonet.The type 44 Carbine.Kokura and Nagoya both used the long nosecaps.
Cool little Mannlicher style release button for the floorplate inside the triggerguard.
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Re: Japanese Type 44
WOW What a rifle. SAWEET 
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T hat is a rare bird.
I've been looking for a good rep Japanese rife, and you see very few of those.
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Dolk
I've been looking for a good rep Japanese rife, and you see very few of those.
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Re: Japanese Type 44
Very nice! That thing looks pristine and with an intact mum! 
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Thanks guys. From what I can tell it's all matching to the serial number or assembly number, except for the release button on the bayonet. That is the only strange number on the gun. Unfortunately it's missing the cleaning rods and I believe (not a 100% sure) that originally it would have had a matching dust cover as well. The groove is in the receiver for one. The bore is pristine. This rifle never saw much action. I disassembled the entire rifle, inlcuding the buttplate door mechanism (forgot to take pics). Had some rust issues with that mechanism and the buttplate, but didn't find any anywhere else. Lots of cosmoline and some black hard substance in the action area and where I took the buttplate off. I'm not sure what it is? I don't believe it's hardened cosmoline, because I tried to heat it up and that didn't liquefy anything. Like dolk, I had been looking for a nice representative Japanese rifle for a while, so it was nice to find this one.
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beautiful rare rifle! "If guns were banned, I'd sure think twice before using one to commit a crime, said no criminal, ever" - unknown
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Very nice type 44, and excellent layout That's one of the cleanest ones I have seen.
That's one of the cleanest ones I have seen.Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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I would have sold my wife and kids to a Mexican Cartel to buy that one.
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Re: Japanese Type 44
Nice. I know of one that a retired colleague from work has. His is an Iwo Jima bring back and is missing the firing pin, spring, and safety knob as the Post Man or whom ever told the GI he had to make it inoperable. It was his fathers (this guy is in his 70's) and his father died not 5-10 years after the war. My colleague was only a kid when his mother told him he had to take care of the carbine...
Yours is every bit as nice as his, and better because it is complete!
Yours is every bit as nice as his, and better because it is complete!
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Re: Japanese Type 44
Too cool. First I've ever seen of this rifle/carbine. Thanks for posting!
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That is the nicest Arisaka of any type I have ever seen and a rare variant as well very , very nice.Thanks for posting that one.
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Re: Japanese Type 44
Very kool!
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Super nice one. Great score!!
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Wow!
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I have a new found interest in Japanese arms and I am quite anxious to acquire my first as I have had about everything else but........... beautiful carbine Sir ;)
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Your collection is most impressive ;)
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