tark
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I need a little help here from you Arisaka Collectors: I am currently engaged in a disagreement with a distinguished gentleman. He says all type 99s had chrome lined bores, including the substitute standard guns, right up until the end; I say the practice stopped when things went south for the Japanese later in the war.
I am no expert on the subject, but I know for an absolute fact that I have seen Type 99s at gun shows that did not have the chrome bores, or the chromed bolt face. These were NOT smoothbore training guns, they were rifled. They were invariably substitute standard guns, or out right last ditch guns.
To the distinguished gentleman who wanted a Source: "Small Arms of the World" ByW.H.B. Smith and Jeseph Smith. I quote:
"In 1943 a substitute type 99 was introduced which was made of inferior materials, without bolt cover and other features, AND WITHOUT CHROME PLATED BORES."
I rest my case.
I am no expert on the subject, but I know for an absolute fact that I have seen Type 99s at gun shows that did not have the chrome bores, or the chromed bolt face. These were NOT smoothbore training guns, they were rifled. They were invariably substitute standard guns, or out right last ditch guns.
To the distinguished gentleman who wanted a Source: "Small Arms of the World" ByW.H.B. Smith and Jeseph Smith. I quote:
"In 1943 a substitute type 99 was introduced which was made of inferior materials, without bolt cover and other features, AND WITHOUT CHROME PLATED BORES."
I rest my case.