When you're a guy who's wanted an Arisaka for a long time and still don't have one, seeing a couple of ass clowns destroy one gets the blood boiling.
Arisaka torture test
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When you're a guy who's wanted an Arisaka for a long time and still don't have one, seeing a couple of ass clowns destroy one gets the blood boiling.
Com'on Ackley and Hatcher didn't have YouTube channels so clearly their testing wasn't good enough.
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antiqueguy
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- windsor ontario
that's the way I see what they did deactivate the gun by shooting it so no one in the future. and again the gun was given to them to test so the owner says what go's on deal with it its not like it was highly collectable as the mum was ground off anyway plenty of them around down there is a common milsurp. this vid did how ever turn me from fearing these guns now I would shoot one
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- Southern Vancouver Island
Them fellers should have tested one of the cast receivered 1944 carbines.
That would have been a real short test!
Shame to wreck a decent 99, but it did have the "Mum" ground off of it which hurt collector value.
Anyone got a Type 38 long rifle in 6.5 with a minty bore? Me want bad!
That would have been a real short test!
Shame to wreck a decent 99, but it did have the "Mum" ground off of it which hurt collector value.
Anyone got a Type 38 long rifle in 6.5 with a minty bore? Me want bad!
Umm, I think that was just the colour "red".
Have a closer look, he is wearing some kind of necklace or something.
It hurts more to see this happen as a Canadian since WWII Japanese stuff is a lot harder to find in Canada than it is in the US. As a result, Japanese stuff is more expensive here. I understand the monetary value of the rifle was not much in the US, but still... just think of the stories that historical gun could tell if it could speak; the things it has been through... all so some guy could destroy it to make a silly hyper-sensational Youtube video proving what has already been proven and well documented. Just throwing in my two cents as someone who appreciates old guns as historical artifacts. 50 years from now when the price of these Japanese rifles have skyrocketed, there will be a lot more head shaking when people see this video.
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I don't understand why. It is their property.
The other thing is finding one with a good bore. I've had about three Arisaka t38's all chewed out bores. I know a guy who's got a 38 rusted to ####, guy's could have sourced out a trade. It looked like the bore on that 99 was "new nickel" clean.
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Many type 99's have better bores as most of them were chrome lined.
mcpherson284
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While I agree that it was painful to watch, and that the ending was not needed, these guys did point drive the point home that a lot of these old military rifles are a lot stronger than the Lawyers would have us in North America believing. Just look at the Factory load specifications on 8x57, 7x57, 6.5x55, and there are probably a hell of a lot more than I can think of. Admittedly, I skipped through the beginning, so I don't know if it was mentioned, there was a case years ago in the States where Garage Gunsmith buba, who probably had a negative IQ, decided to rechamber a 6.5x50 Arisaka, NOTE RECHAMBER NOT REBARREL! he then proceeded to run a 30-06 chamber reamer in and rechambered the 6.5 barrel for 30-06. Apparently, the recoil (maybe in this case should be spelled reqoil) was out of this world, and the bruise was not just on his shoulder, and it seems to me that the the recoil was so much it knocked him off his feet as he was unprepared for his own stupidity. BUT, the Arisaka held together. Tests have been done proving that if it was any other rifle this would not be the case. But with the metallurgy that the Japanese were using, with the minerals they were taking out of China, the 6.5 Ariskas, of the Early WW2 and back to Japan`s occupation of China in the mid 1930`s, were the strongest rifles ever built.
My gunsmith told me they actually rechambered a 6.5 Arisaka in Gunsmithing school years ago, and after tying it to a clamped down shop vice, they yarded on a rope and set her off. Apparently, the muzzle blast was something else, but, the rifle was just fine! They had to beat the action open, but the .30 cal bullet swagged down, and I had to think of what the pressures would be.
My gunsmith told me they actually rechambered a 6.5 Arisaka in Gunsmithing school years ago, and after tying it to a clamped down shop vice, they yarded on a rope and set her off. Apparently, the muzzle blast was something else, but, the rifle was just fine! They had to beat the action open, but the .30 cal bullet swagged down, and I had to think of what the pressures would be.
