Last week I remembered I had a rifle in my basement that was handed down from my grandfather (Navy WWII). After wiping it down and some research (which brought me to your channel) I have a 37 series Tokyo Juki Koyo 1943/1944. All matching numbers. AA sights, dust cover, short cleaning jag. I was told it is the highest serial number that still has front site guards. It was clean enough and functioned superbly that I was able to find some local ammo ($$$pricey$$$) and shoot it on New Years Eve. It holds a great pattern at 50-yards. I'm trying to find out all I can now. Great job on what you do. Thanks.
I have a Arisaka Last ditch Rifle Type 99 series 25 Kokura Arsenal Ser# 652XX, it is a duffle bag gun and looks very nice. It was brought back at the end of the war by my Father with several other items. Over the years I've had several other type99's but have only have kept this one. After viewing your video's and others I have now wished I'd kept them all. But I feel I have a gem among ruff diamonds.
The "chatter" mark on the wrist of Kokuras and TJK stocks is just the marks left by the stock duplicator. They never sanded that part, which is why it's left like that. Unfortunately, it's very common to find them sanded now. It seems like every dealer in the 50s and 60s just had to sand them!
If I remember correctly my dad got it for me from my uncle when I was a teen, think it's a 99 has a rubber pad on the tailstock , well I took it apart & refinished it long time I had know idea back then
I have a type 99 last ditch with a early barrel and action it also has a metal butt plate and interestingly enough it has a type 38 bayonet lug it appears to have been put together that way a long time ago. Edit: I asked my grandpa and he said that's how it was when he shot it as a kid in the 50s so I was hoping you could shine some light on it for me.
Thank you so much for this video. I really wanted to pick up a Japanese/korean arisaka for a while now but didn't know the keyword jinsen. When I was trying identify them previously I did a such a poor quick job that I never learned of the arsenal name haha. Now time to keep an eye out and pick one up soon. First the m1951, then the cheetah, now this! Keep on hitting it out of the park guys!
How much would you say a matching Jinsen special is worth these days? I got one today. I didn’t think the bolt matched at first but after looking harder it definitely does, it’s just very sloppy and almost looks like just two numbers because the first two numbers are on top of each other. It’s a cylindrical bolt handle but the safety is fully knurled. Serial number in the 87 thousand range. Thanks for the video. This is my third arisaka.
Excellent tutorial of the late 99s. I learned so much. My uncle brought back an example found in a barrel with others, in a cave in Okinawa. Mum intact but surface rust everywhere. Accurate? Sort of. Worked? You bet. Pretty? No way. But at this point who cares. Thanks for your insight and knowledge.
I have a last ditch rope hole arisaka rifle and the receiver was left in the white but the barrel and sights are blued! Do you have any info on this rifle?
I have a late war that was passed down to me, but I'm having trouble identifying the series mark. Whats a good way to bring that out so I can see it? Ive heard chalk or white crayon may work?
Last ditch is best ditch! But seriously these things are amazing my second milsurp was one of these after a mosin, now I’m up to over 50 ... please don’t tell my wife!
I have what I have determined, is a series ten, Nagoya. It is rather early in the series, and does not have the cylindrical bolt knob. Instead, it retains the plum shapeand does not match. It does have all the rest of the last ditch features. Is this correct?
@@misha5670 instead of being ground off, the mum has a small, low profile blob of weld over it. You can clearly see the edges of the mum. It is a Nagoya series 3. It is early transition.
You might want to double check that series. 5th is generally the beginning of transition. But with Japanese..never, ever say never. Every single book out there on them was written from observation only. We have virtually no good records from that period to refer back to today.
