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Gunplummer · August 16, 2014, 05:03 PM

Some stock metal is serialized, but usually it was done when the Japanese reworked their own 6.5's. Often it is underneath (The side facing the wood) when it is there. The bayonet lug almost always has the last three digits of the serial number on both the Type 38 and 99. What is the big deal with serial numbers anyway? Those are the guns that were usually in reserve anyway. Arisakas had a lot of field repair done to them. I have seen a lot of receivers on T-99's that were in service and had no serial number at all. Near the end of the war anything useable was issued in a hurry.

August 16, 2014, 05:03 PM	#33
Gunplummer Senior Member Join Date: March 11, 2010 Location: South East Pa. Posts: 3,364	Some stock metal is serialized, but usually it was done when the Japanese reworked their own 6.5's. Often it is underneath (The side facing the wood) when it is there. The bayonet lug almost always has the last three digits of the serial number on both the Type 38 and 99. What is the big deal with serial numbers anyway? Those are the guns that were usually in reserve anyway. Arisakas had a lot of field repair done to them. I have seen a lot of receivers on T-99's that were in service and had no serial number at all. Near the end of the war anything useable was issued in a hurry.