What make is this rifle?

[herrwalther]

An even easier way to tell the two apart is the number of gas escape vent holes in the receiver. Type 38 has two , the 99, only one.

Just learned this myself the other day when doing research on a Arisaka Type 2, a paratrooper variant of the 99. A very rare type.
http://www.nambuworld.com/type2paratrooppix.htm

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

^^^
I am truly in awe of the knowledge that members here on THR have.
And I am also impressed that Dave has Kanji keys on his computer...

I married into a Japanese-American family 39 years ago and have never regretted it. At family gatherings I look like an ogre that crashed an elf party:



And couple of my in-laws help me with Japanese language questions from friends, so I did indeed import a couple of Kanji and Katakana fonts for my PC.

 

[1965tinman]

there is a interesting write up in one of Ackleys books about blow up tests he performed on arisaka actions, He found they were very strong.