I didn't think it was controversial to say that Imperial Japan fucking sucked. Ask anybody from China, Korea or Vietnam what they think about the "glorious empire of Japan" and I guarantee what they'll say is far worse than what I said in this video. War is perhaps the most political thing to have ever existed. To brush over that is a disservice to the millions of people who died at the hands of the Japanese less than a century ago.
@@dodge33w to let it go only gives the right a foothold. To dispute and attack it doesn't change the CHUD's mind, but lets people who see it know that we won't just let the argument go undisputed. Calling them a fuck head or shit like that is actually *better* than argumentation, even haha.
@@golfshores97 Yeah I've gotta say I'm pretty tired of people insisting gun videos be "not political" when talking about a world war where 55+ million people died because of the rise of fascism. Like, an entire war was fought and won because the global far right was fucking terrible. I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen some wehraboo in the comments of a Kar98k gun video say that they wish the Axis won and get like 50 upvotes, and anytime somebody says that the Soviets should have been exterminated because they were """communists""" (despite being largely responsible for crushing Nazi Germany) they get like 1000 upvotes. Right-wingers invading every gun video with their toxic politics need to fuck off. There's a difference between being apolitical and getting mad when somebody (gasp!) says that Imperial Japan was not, in fact, cool and good.
Japanese Ghillied Suit Boi: TENNÖHEIKA BANZAI!!!!! *charges at someone with a Type 99 rifle with a bayonet* what everyone who played COD: WAW were scared of
really informative, quite jealous of those family heirlooms my only suggestion would be to invest in an action camera and head-rig to mount it on, so when comparing firing the gun(s) in video games to RL we can compare the 'view' so to speak.
Haha thanks. I've considered those GoPros and whatnot, it's just like a $400 purchase to get a view of the gun that isn't even technically looking down the iron sights (since the camera is above the eyes). Someday I'll get one, but it's pretty low on my priority list tbh.
Thanks man! If you haven't seen them already I have a few similar videos comparing real rifles to video game representations: ru-vid.com/group/PLD5oEqAX6xWeIuI8z1B6nJ9IpGxcVtd6t
Whoops sorry for the late reply, but it appears to be some period Chinese drama: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9YEt_yz51nI.html I don't know what it's called sadly.
By far my favourite rifle on battlefield 5. so cool for you to have these weapons passed down to you by your grandfather. Sounds like a great man & thank you for his service 🙏 As always really informative , great watch 👀
Yeah it’s probably my most-used Recon gun in the game. And totally, my grandfather brought back some really cool stuff from the Pacific as a Sergeant in the AAF. He even brought home a a Kukri! Complete with homemade bamboo sheath and all.
Thanks man! That's good to hear considering I rerecorded these lines several times so that I had the clearest delivery possible (bot sure if this applies to you but many of my viewers probably speak English as a second language so I try to make it easy for them to understand). Glad you enjoyed it! : D
The anti aircraft sights were indeed meant for that slow moving WW1 plane you saw, as most Japanese were expecting to fight the outdated planes China had.
That makes way more sense. Using it against the Americans and their relatively advanced planes would be pretty silly (though I’m sure their officers made them try).
Came here from Reddit. I liked the video. Might want to give people a heads up about the last ditch Type 99s. They are rough in terms of fit and finish often with rough machining and hastily applied or entirely absent finishes. Mine doesn't have an adjustable rear sight, but rather a hastily cut (or if they did it by hand with a file, not so hastily) peep sight. The knurling on the safety isn't there. It also has a wooden butt plate nailed on. Most critically though, lots of them are not safe to shoot. Metallurgy and heat treatment was iffy and touching off a full power 7.7mm cartridge could make it explode in your face. Oddly enough, my last ditch type 99 still has the chrysanthemum on the receiver.
Thanks. I've heard some conflicting things about the safety of last ditch Type 99s but the modern consensus seems to be that the vast majority are perfectly safe to shoot as long as the user doesn't overload it the ammo. They only really go kaboom if you use the smoothbore training rifles. The standard infantry ones look a bit rough like you said, but I don't the manufacturers skimped on the pressure bearing components much. Of course any time anybody buys an old gun it's best to get them checked out. Especially since virtually all of the rifles have mismatched bolts that could cause headspacing issues.
@@geoechidna Interesting. I'd heard that the real issue was heat treat, which can be hard for a smaller workshop to get right. That's the issue that most older guns, like old revolvers, have with modern ammo. 45 Colt for example can be loaded to approach some of the modern magnum cartridges, but if you try to fire it in a vintage Colt Single Action Army, you can damage the gun or worse, have a catastrophic cylinder failure. An updated, modern cylinder and some new parts in the lockwork would allow you to shoot modern ammo in an old gun...but then it's not vintage anymore. Same story with the last ditch Type 99s. I guess I could take a file to some of the parts on mine and see what kind of hardness I get out of it. A decently hard rifle would indicate that it has had some heat treatment and the alloy of the steel is at least safe to shoot, assuming it took the heat treatment. I do have a really nice Type 44 that is a real pleasure to shoot except for the ammo cost.
@@geoechidna I do know that the short length of pull on the stock is a big cause for complaint among us larger framed westerners. A slip on recoil pad that adds an extra inch or so of length, makes them a whole lot nicer to shoot. I'm going to do some more research though about shooting my later rough Type 99. I'd actually like to shoot it if I could. The fear of trashing a mum-intact rifle has always been the biggest concern with it. It's one of the few things I got from my grandfather when he passed on and I'd hate to destroy it.
Yeah if it's an heirloom Type 99 last ditch I'd definitely exercise the same caution that you are. If you're really worried and have some disposable income, I'd take it to a gunsmith and have them check it out. They should know if it's safe or not. Hope you're eventually able to shoot it! :D
The type 99 had the strongest action in ww2 and a great rifle. The down side is ammo, its out there but very expensive. I happen to have the long version of the type 99. They only made a few thousand of the type 99 long rifle and i happen to find one, boy i was lucky. The one you have is the type 99 short rifle they are great guns i see them around. They are kinda common guns to find in the U.S.
Nice, never seen a long one in the wild. The short ones are indeed pretty common which is why it's infuriating that ammo is so expensive. It's a great rifle that's really fun to shoot but $2 a shot sucks.
I think other manufacturer should make 7.7 Jap its a great round. There is a few pictures of the type 99 long rifle www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/1943/905584517/wm_11209177.jpg
No mine is just like it but missing the dust cover,aircraft sights and the monopod everything else is there. I think its a little bit longer than the Mosin Nagant 91/30 its long. I seen your other video about the No4 Mk1 Enfield thumbs up for that. I am more into Enfields than anything else i own 8 Lee Enfield rifles.The sad thing is sometime in the future i will stop getting them because the price is just not worth it. I know a few area's that will still give good deals but they will not be around forever lol. These old guns are awesome but very worn down and beat. I seen some with shot out bores or badly pitted and they still ask top dollar. I see mostly Enfields, Mausers,Mosin 91/30 and the SKS, they are common in my area but some people want to much. There was a guy asking $1000 for a Lee Enfield No4 Mk1 and he couldn't move it for 4 and a half years until he finally sold it. Who ever got that rifle got burned i can get one around $300 easy lol
Yeah I like Lees but I sorry of have a problem with their worsening accuracy the older they are. A lot of rear-locking guns tend to get looser and looser as time goes on and I've never fired one that is amazingly accurate. The SVT or maybe an FN49 are on the list though. I've bought enough bolt-actions lol, I've gotta diversify. :P
Imperial Japan may have been a war-mongering fanatical dictatorship, whose brutality rivaled that of Nazi Germany. But they made some excellent rifles, sometimes you need to separate the art from the artist.
This is a… weird way to say that a genocidal regime was skilled at making small arms. Imperial Japan was not an “artist” lmao. 😂 That being said, yes, the Type 99 is a great rifle and one of the better Mauser derivatives of its time.
I have a late war type 99 marksman rifle, you can tell due to the mild curve in the bolt handle, I love mine, also the iron sights aren't an upside down V in the front, it's more atone to a bead sight, all in all though it's a blast to shoot and was the first gun I've ever bought
Haha, he brought back 2! And yeah, it’s really cool that he did. I think it was the last war where war trophies were “allowed”. Nowadays the military just destroys these things if they’re found after a battle.
Judging from DICE’s previous actions that wasn’t their intention. The in-game model is a midwar variant that still has the tangent sight with elevation slider. DICE embellishes a lot of how these sights actually look because the “IRL” sights are somewhat harder to use and the BF community tends to whine very hard about them and refuse to use them. To meet players halfway, DICE often open up the sights on these guns past what you could actually see. The M1 has a giant rear aperture that was bigger than any rifles’ in reality and the open sights rifles like the Kar98k and Krag have massively deep V and U-notches that are much easier to use than the real thing. BF1 has the same thing. This wasn’t a case about using a last-ditch sight; the Type 99’s aperture hole in BFV was widened purely for playability.
After owning and shooting many surplus bolt action rifles, I have to say the Type 99 is my favorite. They are incredibly accurate, not sure why you said they aren't. My last ditch can ring steel out to 3-500 yards with no issues.
I mean I didn't say they were "inaccurate", but most are 3 MOA+ rifles, par for the course during WWII for service rifles. The K31 and 96 Mausers are way more precise. I researched Type 99s for years and being tack drivers is not something I've ever read about one of these. The Japanese didn't even specially select them for accuracy when making sniper rifles. They're reasonably accurate for their time but nothing special. Still great guns, though.
Thanks, I really appreciate it! I won't lie, I'm pretty lucky to be able to do this. Even in America these things aren't really well-known unless you had a grandfather that served in the Pacific Theater.
I have a friend from Texas who's great grandpa was an outlaw! Do you ever play with those wild west revolvers? Actually, I must have a good look at your content. Air rifles are all we have over here. Even blank shooters are illegal, because they can be modified.
I haven’t played RS to I can’t comment on the specifics. I’d imagine the Type 99 is portrayed more realistically in that game but the animations are nowhere near as good.
Not sure how my grandfather got his home, but I’m guessing he just reassembled the rifles from buckets of parts after the boat ride home like most did.
The Type 99 in this game is pretty accurate tbh, definitely more so than real life. This particular rifle is pretty accurate for a 99 though. It’s probably about 2 MOA IRL.
By mid-war a lot of those features were abandoned. This rifle is not matching but even if it was it very well may have never had those features. The rifle itself is still pretty great.
I’m guessing laziness. They needed the model to be compatible with scopes so they cut corners. It’s still a really great rendition of a Type 99 and feels satisfying to use.
You have a fantastic looking rifle that comes with significant family history. Treasure it. Glad to hear your grandfather made it back home. It looks like he took care of it and thank God it didn't get sporterized! If you don't mind me asking, did the rifle always not have a cleaning rod? I know the bolts got mismatched, the dust covers lost when they were brought over, but I see a lot of Arisakas without cleaning rods for some reason and I can't find out why this is even on non, last ditch rifles.
Thanks! As for the cleaning rod being missing, Ian from Forgotten Weapons said in one of his videos that the reality was that the Arisakas were all pretty much completely disassembled and thrown into a box on a ship at the end of the war. When time came to actually go home, many soldiers just took a partly assembled rifle. That's why dust covers, monopods and AA sights as well a cleaning rods are often missing.
@@geoechidna I wonder if it isn't the same for all rifles and depends on who brought them or what ship, etc. For example, mine has the screws staked and they have clearly never moved since being being assembled (though the previous owner very clearly tried with inappropriate means, much to my dismay). I hear a lot of different stories as to what was done with these rifles and I have to wonder if there simply was no standard method of transport and may have differed even from ship to ship for all I know. Personally, I debate whether or not I'd like all the rifles to be more complete, or keep the sorted and more interesting history/stories behind the rifles. Gives them a bit more "soul" if you will. Anyway, thanks for the info!
It would be awesome if they were complete but honestly it doesn't take away much from the history or function of the rifle. Same with the mums. My T99 still shoots well and operates smoothly even with a mismatched bolt, so at the end of the day I can't complain much.
@@geoechidna Very true. I first thought that if it didn't have the mum, I wouldn't value it as much but it has since grown on me as just being part of history which is no less important. I've got 2 with matching bolts, but I think even that bonus pales when you have a family connection to the rifle.
Yeah it definitely makes a difference. I never met the grandfather that brought this back, but both of mine served in WWII and shooting this thing is in some small way a way to relive that era. Pretty cool feeling. Happy shooting, friend!
Fanastic video! I was very happy to see you dispelling myths as well. The only thing I would disagree with is the recoil. I find that the recoil is very mild, although mine is a last ditch and could have a little more weight to help with that.
Thanks! I wouldn’t call the recoil “mild” by any stretch though. It’s a closed breech rifle (and a light one) firing a full-power round. 10 shots isn’t a big deal. 20 or 30 from a sitting position will start to hurt. It’s not as bad as my 1903A3 but still objectively not pleasant to shoot for an extended period of time.
@@geoechidna the extra material on the rough cut stock has to be just enough weight then because I can barely feel a difference between my Type 38 and Type 99. I was expecting it to be much worse because of the larger round and smaller rifle, but it was just slightly harder.
I’ve got a type 99 with bayonet. The bayonet has a rounded edge. You couldn’t cut hot butter with it. It was either never sharpened or rounded out deliberately by someone. If stabbed with it you would get a heck’ev a wide wound.
That was probably a practice bayonet. My grandfather brought back an American 1907 bayonet with a rounded edge similar to what you're describing. That being said, the Japanese were pretty no-holds-barred in the final days of the war, so I have no doubt some were actually used in combat.
@@geoechidna never thought about it possibly being a practice bayonet. Got the steel scabbard and it is hardened steel just never had an edge put on it. Thanks.
I never got around to playing that but from what I know about Ostfront ‘43-‘45 that series has much more realistic depictions of how the rifles act compared to BFV. But there’s no denying that there has never been a nicer graphical depiction of the Type 99 than in this game; the in-game model looks stunning and even sounds like the real rifle.
In regards to the monopod and anti aircraft sight, they were mostly omitted on most new rifles from 1943 to 1945. This is especially evident on the so called "Last Ditch" Arisakas which only featured a plain iron sight. The upper handguard and even the Chrisanthemum on the safety was also omitted. I have a Type 99 made around 1944 that is very much spartan in appearance but still fires quite well. It's also surprisingly accurate despite all the cut corners.
Yeah, but most of the functional rifles would have still had them even by the end of the war. My guess is DICE either just got lazy on either their research or wasn’t really pressed for time. Most Type 99s on the collector’s market have these things missing as well.
Yeah it’s the milsurp curse. When stuff is super common people tend to be rough with them or modify them. People are finally starting to realize these things aren’t cheap garbage, so hopefully the era of butchering these things is over now that they’re worth actual money.
I thought the game did quite a good job with how the rear sight looks, at least in reference to how the human eye adjusts to the sights. How the camera captures the sight picture is not at all how the human eye captures it.
I see what you're saying but it's still way too thin. I just went back and checked; even with how the human eye creates a ghost ring it's still far thinner on both the model and when aiming down the sights in BFV than it is IRL.
@@geoechidna It'd definitely be better if the ring was made blurry in the game, as it would be in real life... but that would appease the gamer crowd so well, which is why most rear sights are much more open compared to their real life counterparts. It gets to look sharp, and be open lol. Honestly, the only game I've ever seen do it right are the old Brothers in Arms games on PS2 and Xbox.
@@ArnhemKnight88 I agree, every time I think about mostly-realistic shooting mechanics in a WWII game I think of Brothers in Arms for the PS2, XB, and PC. Aiming was really fucking hard in that game, but that's how it kind of is. Hell Let Loose is also a pretty good approximation of realistic shooting mechanics. I haven't played since they updated the ballistics model, but its supposedly even better now. I absolutely understand why DICE modeled sights like they did, but honestly I think gamers would adapt pretty fast to "realistic" sight pictures. Gamers often spend hundreds of hour of their lives playing BF games; they could handle it. I guarantee using correctly modeled open sights in a video game would still be easier than IRL.
I'm using Swedish Mauser clips, which work perfectly in the Type 99, M1903, and in general most non-98 pattern rifles of that era. The 98 clips (german, yugo, etc) are too small for most of these things sadly. Swedish Mauser clips are extremely smooth with the Type 99 in particular.
They’re actually Swedish Mauser clips. They work absolutely perfectly in several different Mauser-type designs. And unlike genuine Japanese clips, these are actually pretty affordable and not uncommon.
@@geoechidna Swedish Mauser stripper clips are wonderfully multipurpose. I can use them in Swedish Mauser’s, Arisaka rifles, and even in an M1903 or M1917 rifle without any problems.
Props to you for actually knowing the bit about the dust cover. Men issued rifles with dust covers usually kept them, and they don't rattle at all when mounted properly. I think the monopod, AA sights, and dust cover being quickly axed when Japan shifted to ease-of-production Type 99 models one the war started helped contribute to this myth, as many in the later year would be found having never been issued with covers.
Yeah wartime production simplifications, postwar disassembly during transport back the the States and veterans just throwing the things away or losing them over the years are all reasons why Type 99s are not often found with dust covers. It’s pretty infuriating how often people repeat the myth that Japanese soldiers (that were part of the strictest military in the world) would discard them because they didn’t feel like it; nah, they’d get their asses beat by their COs. Same with the M1 pong myths, once one guy says something 50 people on the internet become doctorate-level experts on the subject lol. I think only lately have the major myths been getting more pushback.
Ever tried Rising Storm Vietnam? Its somewhat in the hardcore shooter category, but I find it easier to get accustomed to and enjoy. It also has some pretty awesome guns.
Yeah, it's by the same people who did Red Orchestra right? I played the old Ostfront games several years ago and was impressed at their dedication to brutal realism. I heard they toned it back a bit for later games to widen their net of players. Is anyone still played Rising Storm 2? I've always wanted to check it out.
@@geoechidna Yes, even now it has a pretty big player base. And yes, the game is still notoriously a PTSD simulator. Limbs go flying when the artillery barrages come in, and the ballistics are pretty realistic feeling. I usually play as the North/PAVN
The first Rising Storm is a WWII game after Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad but Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm is sets in Pacific Theater where the war between Japanese Vs American. Compares Red Orchestra 2 to Call Of Duty: World At War. Rising Storm (2) Vietnam is kinda like Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam, Call Of Duty: Black Ops, and Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War as well.
