Arisaka

[eagle eye]

I have a non matching Arisaka, what do I have?

[Rogerbutthead]

The Arisaka experts are at: http://forums.gunboards.com/forumdis...The-Rising-Sun

Looks like a Type 38.

[Noonanda]

Typwe 38 long rifle, 6.5x50 Arisaka. Looks like the stock has been refinished, it shouldnt shine like that unless you just wiped it down

[Geologyjohn]

As noted above, you have a Type 38 rifle with a scrubbed Mum (indicated surrendered vs. a battlefield find/captured rifle). How about taking a photo of the symbol just in front of the receiver serial number, and the symbol(s) just behind the serial number? That will tell us which Series the rifle is, and which arsenal manufactured the rifle. Geologyjon

[Vlad 11]

Not necessarily non-matching as they sometimes can be matched by assembly #.

need the receiver markings to tell

[jigenax]

Wow, someone really scrubbed the bluing off the bolt assemble and safety knob. Kinda weird seeing a two tone T38.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

I don't know if it has been refinished or not. It is really shiny, but the wood itself doesn't look like it has been sanded down. And do yourself a favor. Don't try to refinish the stock. The varnish used on them will give you a poison-ivy like rash if you mess with it. On the rifle it is fine, as it has generally had 70+ years for the allergic compounds to wear off. But if you remove the outer layers, you are asking for trouble.

-Mb

[Rogerbutthead]

Kinda weird? Most pics I see of Type 38's have the bolt in the white. My Type 38 is in the rear of a safe, but I thought it was in the white too.

Check Google images, every clear bolt shot I see of a Type 38 has a bolt in the white.

[CptDan]

Don't try to refinish the stock. The varnish used on them will give you a poison-ivy like rash if you mess with it. On the rifle it is fine, as it has generally had 70+ years for the allergic compounds to wear off. But if you remove the outer layers, you are asking for trouble.

-Mb

The Japanese were said to use Tung Oil on the stocks which some people are alergic to.

[gun toting monkeyboy]

The Japanese were said to use Tung Oil on the stocks which some people are alergic to.

Nope. They used a varnish made from a sumac tree native to Japan. Here is a link to a very good article on it.

http://www.gunboards.com/sites/banzai/Rifles/Finish/UpM99Fin.htm

-Mb

[Rogerbutthead]

dupe

[gun toting monkeyboy]

dupe

What dupe? The thread? A guy is asking what rifle he had. How can that be a dupe? And the comments on the finish are entirely appropirate to the conversation. So what are you calling "dupe" on? The link to the correct article? Pointing out a link to relevent information on a new thread hardly constitutes a "dupe". Just because you have seen the information before doesn't mean that it is common knowledge. You keep using that word. I do no think it means what you think it means...

-Mb

[Rogerbutthead]

I duped the article on Arisaka finishes, sorry it was not as clear as if I left it.

I keep using the word "dupe"?

[Sampachi]

Wow, someone really scrubbed the bluing off the bolt assemble and safety knob. Kinda weird seeing a two tone T38.

It depends on when the T38 was made and by whom. Early bolts were all metal "in the white", middle production had blued safeties and the final models had all blued parts.

What is odd with this rifle is that the safety is a later style, so I would think that it should be blued. Without seeing the serial number and arsenal, it's a bit of a mystery.

[6mmintl]

The typical finish is made from Sumac (Poison sumac) Lacquer that grows wild in japan and back east USA, its a red berry flower/pod spindly bush/sapling that gives you nasty blisters and Oozing sores unlike poison Ivy if you brush up against it.

If the 6.5mm bore on it is very good to excellent (rare) and it head spaces ok (if you can find gages) then you have a good shooter with .268-.270" cast bullets out to 300 yards maybe a little more, if you shoot expensive .368 hornady round nose bullets you will be able to shoot out to 600 with a lot of practice.

Privi partisan makes brass but only makes U.S. std .264 dia. bullets, hornady is the only co. making correct bore size bullets for arisaka's. Lee make economical dies.

Either way its a decent shooter rifle and is a classic milsurp.