@@JadeWarShitpostif I remember correctly that was the whole premise. The tactic was a whole rifle squad of guys just shooting at the plane would surely bring it down. I don’t think it lasted that long
I am pretty sure those sights weren't made specifically for Anti-Air, but instead as range finders for longer shots. If you understand how bullets, trajectory and overall laws of physics work it would make sense. To shoot further, you need to arc the shots so they can travel further before hitting the ground which is where range finders come in both on old sights and modern scopes.
They're artillery fire shots my dear boy... Not AA. When the drop is past what you'd accurately shoot with the iron sights and needed something longer range.
I wish I still had that rifle. Dad sold it to muster the cash to send me to Philmont scout ranch in 86. Funny how you can forget your middle name but remember the minute details.😂
Would never hit it. That's why they had those huge ringed grid sights on aa machine guns. By the time the bullet got there, the plane would be 50 metres away.
I love how our Japanese friends are commenting about how beautiful and nostalgic the gun is while We're talking about how he almost let his intrusive thought win 💀
I agree that the history of weapons is interesting, but calling the period when Japan oppressed neighboring nations nostalgic was not nice. Nostalgic Meji's fascist empire, I'm sorry but this has to be a joke.
I have a paratrooper二式, 2 三八式, and a 九九式 and a few dozen type 30 bayonets along with a type98 shin gunto sword… Love these blades and rifles, also im half japanese so im not haunted by the spirits of whose life they’ve probably taken.. 天皇陛下万歳!!!
@@brianmclaughlin4419 I've got one with the Chrysanthemum intact, but the rest of the rifle is pretty beat up, it was Bubba'd at some point and has a cut down barrel (no front sight either😒) and stock, the dust guard is missing, the wood was beat to hell and poorly restored with huge amounts of varnish, and the bore is pretty rusted out near the muzzle. It shoots, but with the rusted bore and missing front sight it's about as inaccurate as it can get lol. The rounds are pretty expensive (6.5x50SR is about $55 a box when they're in stock) so I never even bother shooting it but it's still cool to own a piece of history, Bubba'd or not...
I love how the Japanese really thought that they would be able to shoot planes out of the sky enough so that they actually added AA sites to their bolt action rifle
Elevation sights. It's how you target something at over 400m. This isn't a video game. There is no such thing as aiming high after 100m. In fact, you aim low because of bullet kick up. When the bullet rises in the air and then settles into the trajectory.
I mean...it wasn't a terrible idea. They probably weren't crackshots and didn't hit much of anything, but you have to admire the effort. (Also, most aircraft of WW2 were starting to be made of tougher materials than WW1 aircraft, so you'd have less chance of shooting it down anyhow).
@@Wraith_of_Storm and I’m sure quite a few aircraft had bullet holes from these and other weapons when they returned may not have damaged much of course
@@carminescurse that’s probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever read from someone who’s clearly never shot lmfao. Very few cartridges require you to zero for 200. I.E bullet climb
I think all remaining models of this rifle that are not in a museum are in America dozens of these were captured as prizes by American soldiers and have been passed down to sons and grandsons. I did get the opportunity to shoot one once it was awesome to have held a piece of history
Actually Japanese soldiers did shoot at low flying American planes like the Corsair and some did get shot down, one Pilot was found 20 yrs later still strapped into the cockpit the bullet entered under his seat and was found in his skull, his name was Pillsbury.
When it came out, in the late 19th century/early 20th century, both weapon and caliber were especially designed for the body parameter of an average Japanese soldier (more slim). That's why the recoil is a little easier to handle in ocidental arms. Also, the dust cover of the bolt would make noise while In operations, so many soldiers simply removed them. My favorite rifle from the East of the globe!
@@jmjedi923US storage of weapons policy. It was done for safety reasons. When the Americans reassembled the rifles to be sold as surplus, they mismatched which dust cover goes to which rifle (or in the case of many rifles, just simply didn't put back the dust covers at all). This resulted in creaky-sounding actions at best and jamming dust covers at worst. Tenacious Trilobite's Type 44 for example, has a dust cover from a Type 99, which uses a different caliber than the Type 44. This resulted in the bolt sounding creaky. This is what contributed to the Arisaka dust cover myth.
It's a shame most Type 38, 44 and 99 rifles are missing their dust covers because American GIs discarded them. No, the Japanese soldiers who served with them did not discard the dust covers. They'd get seriously reprimanded for doing that. And yes, later in the war Japan did simplify their rifles, and one of the first things to go was the dust cover.
Most Japanese soldiers actually did remove the dust cover. It was very noisy. The flimsy monopod also was removed by most Japanese soldiers as well because it's kind of useless.
@@j.peters1222 no they weren't noisy, each rifle had its dust cover specifically fitted to the corresponding rifle. The ones that are noisy are the ones that don't match the rifle.
Yeah, thats definitely one of the most annoying myths surrounding the Type 99. The few that were shipped to the US were shipped with their bolts removed which led to most of the dust covers being lost. Anyone who thinks soldiers are allowed to just "throw away" part of their government-issued weapon is not living in reality. I have owned several Type 99/38 rifles and the dust cover makes no noise unless the weapon's action is being cycled, in which occasion you're shooting anyway which makes quite a racket.
@@watchman0062 the Type 38 is the older variant of the Arisaka that entered service in 1906 and utilized a 6.5X50mm cartridge. The Type 99 was designed as the replacement and produced from 1939-1945 and used a 7.7X58mm cartridge. They both served through the war together.
Saw one of these for sale at an auction one time. The guy selling said "I was in the Marine Corps back in the late 60s. If they had given me this for a weapon, I'd have given it back and tried to use rocks instead."
he probably heard all the myths from GI's trying to fire rounds from trainer rifles and them exploding. The Arisaka's themselves were probably the strongest and most robust standard issue bolt action of ww2.
@@Dulex123Nah, propaganda against anything Japanese made was fairly effective. They taught that Japanese rifles were basically garbage. When in reality, they were some of the strongest bolt actions ever made. And imo, really some of the most pretty.
Fun fact: those AA sights aren't for bombers and other types of expensive metal American planes, they're for shitty old wooden Chinese biplanes. It wasn't very uncommon for groups of Japanese somdiers to fire in volleys at small scout planes in the hopes of either hitting the pilot or making the plane crash.
Ignoring the horrors the Axis government's caused... They had some beautiful craftsmanship. The ergonomic grooves on the back of the safety look amazing and they're functional. Stylings are great too. Huge contrast to walking into IWM and seeing a Sten or a Firefly where we butchered it to suit our needs. 😅
Show me any country or culture ever that hasn’t caused horrors in wartime. We weren’t there, and there’s no telling how many horrors the Allies caused too. Shit was almost a hundred years ago, so it should be as easy to ignore as any other part of history. People should be able to let go enough to look at things objectively by now.
@@Nomans_NomenNobody's perfect in war but that means nobodys perfect in war 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you mainly hear the evils of the opposite side, which to be fair the nazi's were quite, well, cruel, more so than others at the time, though Russia was worse, even the Nazi's hated how bad the Russians were.
@@Nomans_Nomen Unlike allied war crimes none of them even rival any of the axis ones. Japan for one has literally the worst history in the world for committing war crimes.
@@zeroelevens4957 And the countries that comprised the allies? The US annihilated an entire race and culture, and succeeded where hitler failed. They also poisoned their own land in the civil war, killing off their own civilian population en masse, while practicing slavery. Not to mention interring innocent Japanese-Americans, or “Japanese enough” looking Americans into concentration camps as well, or that the US ended Japan’s isolation at cannon point, shaping the Japan to be, exploiting it all the while. The US practically hand-raised imperial Japan, in exchange for a profit. Or, you know, there’s the whole nuclear bomb thing, that almost entirely targeted and annihilated civilian populations. It’s just a matter of how far back you go with any country, and how much a recency bias, or any bias clouds your judgement. Should we talk about the sins Britain has committed? Maybe the treaty of versailles that economically hobbled and indentured Germany to the point where extreme action was their only chance of escape? The allies, along with their descendants, simply perfected the art of fabricating moral superiority and blaming other countries for the consequences of their actions, when the hostility of said countries was created by those consequences. Especially when it comes to countries they were actively exploiting that retaliated. A habit that continues into present day. The victor writes the history, and the most crucial step of that victory is to foster hatred for the desired target, and convincing the masses their hate for that target is justified, when the vast majority of the time it really isn’t. Not without a massive helping of hypocrisy, and ignorance. It is very easy to control the reactions of hatred, as well as the cherry picked perceptions of history used to fuel it. You live in a world built on the graves of those who fell on the receiving end of this tactic.
Not really, bullets haven’t changed much nor has the power of these rifles. I have a 30-06 from world war I and it is fantastic. Very powerful, very accurate. The media tries to tell you modern rifles (assault rifles) are so different and more deadly. That’s just not true. Modern rifles are just favored by COD Players.
still available, however since this bullet is only used in this rifle the bullet is slightly more expensive than most more common bullets of the same power.
The best thing to have in zombie apocalypse is sharp weapon, not firearm. Because again it's useless when you run out of ammo, and zombie can only be killed when shot in the head, multiple shots to the body the zombie still alive and continue to chase you, and nobody would carry tons of ammo by their own while moving from one place to another just to keep surviving when the whole city perfectly crowded by zombies.
It's called a Chrysanthemum. It is the symbol of the Emperor. Most engravings were scrathced off before the soldier was capurtured or the weapon discarded as to not dishonor the Emperor.
