Arisaka..USMC 'Refurb' ?????

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Long story short....I picked up a mint condition Arisaka carbine, The story goes that they were one a few hundred captured by the US and re chambered into 30-06 and re issued to USMC troops in the Pacific

Does this seem plausible...

This thing is all greek to me
 
I smell bovine in the air.

I don't believe the US would press captured foreign arms into service. They already had large numbers of substitute standard 1903 rifles to supplement Garand production.

I suspect it is simply a war capture rechambered or rebarreled.
 
I was thinking the same......He seemed stoic in his belief of the rifles history, claims he bought it off of 'lever' (lever arms) in the late 60's....And it was one of only a few hundred, I bought it off of a gunsmith yesterday, he ran it through the CFC and the 'cfc operator' knew more about the rifle than the smith and backed the original buyers claims.....so who knows....the rifle is beyond mint and for 200.oo dollars..........
 
The U.S.M.C. did not use rebuilt Arisakas at any time or place.
"...a mint condition Arisaka carbine..." 'Mint' means it's exactly as it came out of the factory. Not rebuilt. An Arisakas, it will also have the Imperial Chrysanthemum on the receiver. Very few do have it.
The clerks at the CFC aren't firearms experts. They're paper pushers. It's more likely that it was re-barreled for hunting. Still, $200 isn't a bad price for a hunting rifle.
 
Thats what i was thinking right off the bat.........But you could fill volumes on the things I do not know........Just thought I would throw it out there
 
"...volumes..." That's where books come in. Your local public library is a great place to start. Far better than the Internet. The reference section will likely have a ton of good, hard to find, firearms related books. And in the Sports section. Most public libraries see books as just being books without all the anti-firearm BS.
Gun shows are good too, just not free.
Hatcher's Notebook is a 'must read/have/ book for shooters too. Your local gun shop or Amazon. It's worth every cent of the $30.
 
Those rifles were rechambered by the USA, but during the Korean War and issued to South Korean troops, nothing to do with the Marines.
 
Had a T38 30-06 Arisaka carbine that was converted by the Siamese.
The 30-06 conversions done in Korea were T99s done by the US for ROC army. Most were destroyed in the 1950s and are very rare.
The USMC story sound like a good story.
 
Never heard of their use by the Corps. Although I have seen a few original trophies mounted on display at 1st Mar. Div. HQ etc.

Any conversion if it was done at all would have been under the DoD and under contract by a mil. contractor of the day. The DoD has been known to supply friendlies with what ever was available in the day be it new or old domestic or foreign.

Is it possible that a cache was siezed by the Corps and stored and then put out for dispposal years later and then rechambered for the US market?
 
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