Notches on Japanese Arisaka - Urban Myth?

I have a Colt .45 revolver made in 1883, which was retailed by JP Lower, in Denver Colorado. It is notched. Who knows?
Some of the Swedish sporting rifles being sold by TradeEx have tallies. Those I believe.
Friend's grandfather's .25-35 Winchester had tally marks for deer and black bear.
As the say, buy the gun, not the story.
 
Philthy1 said:
I have no doubt that many of "kill notches" are actually legit, but does anyone actually pay more for that? I doubt it. To me, legit or not, it can never be authenticated, so its just meaningless.
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Just like the claims that "My Luger/P-38/PP/Mauser HSC was taken from a dead SS/Wehrmacht Officer .....". Apparently none were surrendered by living members of the Wehrmacht or SS.
When I was a kid, we bought this line of malarkey as many were in the hands of vets who had served. What we weren't being told is that a lot of them were scrounged and/or traded from soldiers who were a little closer to the sharp end or present during a surrender.
 
I would think it is just a way to identify your rifle in a dark trench or cave. Just so you wouldn't grab your buddies rifle by mistake. But what do I know?
 
purple said:
This is the most banal and futile thread I've read on this forum for a long time.
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Yeah it's pretty dissapointing when someone brings up an interesting topic for discussion, and then have it go in the direction it has. Thanks to the OP for trying to make an attempt to possibly learn something new.

I was under the impression that all of the folks here that are interested in military history and the firearms that were part of it, had a little more class and respect for one another ....guess not.
 
Here is one for those saying no soldier would ever put marks on the Kings property.

This MK III Ross rifle came directly from the Front and was sent back to Winnipeg right after the user was killed. He was credited with 42 kills


 
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The OP wasn't enquiring about whether or not the notches on his rifle made the thing more valuable. He wanted to know whether the story behind them and other similar marks was plausible.
 
Different thinking..different decade..different wars...im sure there were soldier's that carved marks into their stocks.. some might be "kill" notches as that Ross clearly has,... others for whatever...
 
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