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Charlotte the flyer wrote:Did a quick search and I've seen type 99's up at £1000, crikey!

About 15 years ago, I mate of mine sold his rare takedown 'para' Arisaka and IIRC he sold that back then for about 700 quid, which seemed astronomical back then, but he'd had it for a while and it was in good nick.
Would probably be worth a fair bit more than a grand now I suspect.

GeeRam wrote:

Charlotte the flyer wrote:Did a quick search and I've seen type 99's up at £1000, crikey!

About 15 years ago, I mate of mine sold his rare takedown 'para' Arisaka and IIRC he sold that back then for about 700 quid, which seemed astronomical back then, but he'd had it for a while and it was in good nick.
Would probably be worth a fair bit more than a grand now I suspect.

And that is why if it looks good buy it. There is steyr made K98 with the correct scope and slaw mount but its deactivated. Whoever did that is History's biggest monster

GeeRam wrote:


Charlotte the flyer wrote:

Did a quick search and I've seen type 99's up at £1000, crikey!


About 15 years ago, I mate of mine sold his rare takedown 'para' Arisaka and IIRC he sold that back then for about 700 quid, which seemed astronomical back then, but he'd had it for a while and it was in good nick.
Would probably be worth a fair bit more than a grand now I suspect.

And that is why if it looks good buy it. There is steyr made K98 with the correct scope and slaw mount but its deactivated. Whoever did that is History's biggest monster

WHAT I despair.

Alpha1 wrote:

GeeRam wrote:


Charlotte the flyer wrote:

Did a quick search and I've seen type 99's up at £1000, crikey!


About 15 years ago, I mate of mine sold his rare takedown 'para' Arisaka and IIRC he sold that back then for about 700 quid, which seemed astronomical back then, but he'd had it for a while and it was in good nick.
Would probably be worth a fair bit more than a grand now I suspect.

And that is why if it looks good buy it. There is steyr made K98 with the correct scope and slaw mount but its deactivated. Whoever did that is History's biggest monster

WHAT I despair.

Yes, that person needs the Arsehole of the year award plus it would have been worth more in working order too.

Not to knock you off the idea of an Arisaka, but if you're interested in a 6.5mm surplus have you considered a Swedish Mauser in 6.5x55? The rifles are in larger supply, go for a decent price, usually in good nick and the reloading components are also readily available.

Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick has some Far East kit on display.
One of the Japanese Arisaka's on display, has a scope bracket fitted...but no scope!

saddler wrote:Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick has some Far East kit on display.
One of the Japanese Arisaka's on display, has a scope bracket fitted...but no scope!

I read somewhere that wartime Japanese sniper scopes are rare and very expensive, some on US sites have sold for £1500 plus.

snayperskaya wrote:

saddler wrote:Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick has some Far East kit on display.
One of the Japanese Arisaka's on display, has a scope bracket fitted...but no scope!

I read somewhere that wartime Japanese sniper scopes are rare and very expensive, some on US sites have sold for £1500 plus.

I used to shoot occasionally with Martin Pegler before he emigrated to France (the expert on sniping / author of several books on the subject). The last addition to his collection that I saw was a sniper Type 38, and he was really over the moon at finding one. I can't remember the exact price, but it was a staggering amount for that time, 15 or more years ago.

I have a vague recollection that the scope only had an elevation adjustment. Applying windage was Kentucky windage using a graduated horizontal reticle.

Martin occasionally complained about the 'Hollywood effect' on sniper rifle prices. At the time I knew him, he was looking for a genuine Springfield '03A4, but the release of 'Saving Private Ryan' killed that project. Prices doubled in three months and then doubled agan over the following year thanks to a huge increase in American interest. In the end he had a 'forgery' built based on a Colenso Arms '03.

Laurie wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:

saddler wrote:Fusiliers Museum in Alnwick has some Far East kit on display.
One of the Japanese Arisaka's on display, has a scope bracket fitted...but no scope!

I read somewhere that wartime Japanese sniper scopes are rare and very expensive, some on US sites have sold for £1500 plus.

I used to shoot occasionally with Martin Pegler before he emigrated to France (the expert on sniping / author of several books on the subject). The last addition to his collection that I saw was a sniper Type 38, and he was really over the moon at finding one. I can't remember the exact price, but it was a staggering amount for that time, 15 or more years ago.

I have a vague recollection that the scope only had an elevation adjustment. Applying windage was Kentucky windage using a graduated horizontal reticle.

Martin occasionally complained about the 'Hollywood effect' on sniper rifle prices. At the time I knew him, he was looking for a genuine Springfield '03A4, but the release of 'Saving Private Ryan' killed that project. Prices doubled in three months and then doubled agan over the following year thanks to a huge increase in American interest. In the end he had a 'forgery' built based on a Colenso Arms '03.

...aye! He had to use my 03A4 for his reference book photos, as back in the day there wasn't even an example in the Royal Armouries collection.

Have handled a couple of the Japanese WW2 scopes. They were closer to emerging technology than what all the other armies were using at the time. Poor reticle and lack of windage adjustment....plus a very small objective lense dia. & a strange reticle.
I was even less impressed with them than the Weaver 330C/M73B1 on my Springfield (possibly the 2nd worst sniper scope of the war).
IF ONLY they'd adopted the Lyman Alaskan in larger numbers for the 03A4.

try

http://www.cwclassicarms.co.uk/current- ... se-arisaka

a nice bloke to deal with