The bayonet is covered briefly, as are the different types of. Its illustrations show those parts in mechanical drawings. Re-assembly of the rifle Care and cleaning Function of the breech mechanism Precautions in handling As expected this instructional book names each individual Arisaka rifle part and details what it does.
To whit: Inspection of the Type 99 rifle Dis-assembly of the rifle into its major groups.
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The Pentagon rather wisely commissioned a Training Manual for converted Arisaka Type 99 rifles and addresses their care in a military manner. As a final step, the imperial chrysanthemum emblem was ground off and steel parts were phosphated. The bolt was notched to accommodate US Army, five-round stripper clips. 30-06 Springfield round’s 1/3 of an inch greater overall length. Besides re-chambering, these rifles were fitted with an elongated magazine well and featured a notch cut in the top of the receiver ring in order to accommodate the. Army Ordnance Corps supervision at the Tokyo arsenal to fire the U.S. Originally chambered in caliber 7.7 X 58 mm (7.7 Jap), approximately 126,500 short and 6,650 long Type 99 Rifles were re-chambered under U.S. Similarly, the Chinese converted a goodly number of its captured Arisakas to 8 mm Mauser (7.92). As a stop gap, the United States supervised the conversion of World War II surplus Type 99 Arisakas.
The situation was more than a little reminiscent of the dire straits Britain found herself in after the Battle of Dunkirk when her army abandoned tens of thousands of rifles on the beach. South Korea was caught unaware and disastrously short of small arms. Version of the Japanese Arisaka Type 99 Rifle You can never have enough guns … That axiom was proven to be true with the outbreak of the Korean War (25 June 1950 - 27 July 1953) when North Korea invaded South Korea in a surprise attack.