Learning more about my rifle

TheRiverRat said:
Thank you everyone I appreciate the help and feel like acquiring this I'm not only gaining more knowledge of my firearms and firearms in general but I'm falling into a rabbit hole of just wanting to know more and more and get more and more! Loving this stuff! I'll be taking it into a local shop next to determine exactly what cartridge to be safe but liked the idea of sharing this withread you all first to better understand what I have before a person at a shop possibly misleads me or doesn't have as much knowledge as you guys. Thanks again I can't wait to shoot it!
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Be prepared, it will kick like the proverbial mule.

I had one, and honestly, my fingers would "ring" after a few rounds. Fun, but it didn't take long before I was ready to stop.

That said, I could hit the 375yd gong all day long with the issue sights.

You may want to take up reloading...
 
CanadianAR said:
It was originally a dot1944, made by Brno, Brunn I. In 1944. It's been scrubbed, peened, buffed, reblued and renumbered.
But it makes for a nice looking rifle. Should be an excellent shooter. Brunn I never really dropped in terms
Of quality in the war. Fine rifles right to the end.
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When you say renumbered do you mean that they counterfeit the stamps or are you talking about the few parts that are elctripenciled ? I see a lot of guys ( just about all ) saying all matching except---
 
Renumbered as in they took a serviceable barreled receiver, scrubbed it of its original serial number, took a hodge podge of other serviceable parts from non serviceable barreled actions (bad chambers, damaged etc etc), scrubbed/polished those parts of their original serial numbers and often waffenamts and renumbered the now totally complete and refurbished rifle with a new serial number of their choosing. I wonder if the bolt release is original to the receiver since it wasn't renumbered? If it has WaA63 on it that is, if not it just may be a replacement from use over the years.
Keithjohn said:
When you say renumbered do you mean that they counterfeit the stamps or are you talking about the few parts that are elctripenciled ? I see a lot of guys ( just about all ) saying all matching except---
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Recce21 said:
Renumbered as in they took a serviceable barreled receiver, scrubbed it of its original serial number, took a hodge podge of other serviceable parts from non serviceable barreled actions (bad chambers, damaged etc etc), scrubbed/polished those parts of their original serial numbers and often waffenamts and renumbered the now totally complete and refurbished rifle with a new serial number of their choosing. I wonder if the bolt release is original to the receiver since it wasn't renumbered? If it has WaA63 on it that is, if not it just may be a replacement from use over the years.
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Thank you
, I know nothing about milsurps and didn't realize that amount of work would be profitable, it must be costly to achieve a finished looking product .
 
Still alive said:
Never shot one of those. I was thinking how hard could an Arisaka kick considering the general stature of their users.
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That was actually a consideration in the design of the rifle. The Type 30s and 38s used the smaller 6.5x50sr round which was a pretty mild round. Later on they found they wanted a bigger round as it wasn't always getting the job done and the later Type 99s used the 7.7x58 round which is comparable to a .30-06.
 
Eaglelord17 said:
That was actually a consideration in the design of the rifle. The Type 30s and 38s used the smaller 6.5x50sr round which was a pretty mild round. Later on they found they wanted a bigger round as it wasn't always getting the job done and the later Type 99s used the 7.7x58 round which is comparable to a .30-06.
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Whew! Thanks, Eaglelord! Thought I was going to get flamed!
Goes to show how tenacious the users were in the early stages of WW2!
 
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