7.7 Arisaka

[nevada]

OK. I'll throw mine in to the ring, too. This a vet bring back that was given to my father-in-law right after the war. He was in the Navy. The mono-pod, dust cover and sling are repros. All I've cleaned is the bore, the stock has some pretty good dings in places, but that doesn't bother me. It's the only rifle I own that I haven't shot yet. Well, that and the sporterized 30-06 Arisaka. That monopod is really unstabe. If you move forward of that full back position it just folds up.

[tomoshenko]

Nice specimen. I have read that those airplane lead sights were actually more for moral than effectiveness.

My dad was in the Navy as well. He served as
2nd lieutenant on the USS Herndon. When the Japanese had evacuated from Manchuria the enlisted men wanted to go ashore and gather souvenire weapons. Because Manchuria was co-occupied by the Russians the captain wanted to avoid trouble and would not let the men go ashore. My father's parents were Russian immigrants and he spoke Russian so he volunteered to gather piles of weapons for the men and bring them back to the ship.
He was a hero for a day to the enlisted men but he described it as one of the scariest times in his entire service. Riding around on a truck with Russian soldiers drunk out of their minds firing automatic weapons like kids shooting packs of firecrackers!

He kept for himself the type 30 6.5 rifle I wrote about in my other post,
a 7mm "BABY" Nambu pistol and a officers Samuarai sword.

The rifle we ruined as kids, the Nambu I sold to NRA president Dick Riley during
a time of financial need. I still have the officers sword.

[Rampager]

Very nice! Actually that stock looks very good to me. Most I see are dark to very dark. I like that ones color being a lighter shade.

[Longhorn789]

Cool Nevada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[XO3319]

nice

[omerta123]

god those aircraft sites crack me up, by the time you got everything lined up the plane would be past you

[oilhead]

My Dad served with the 14th AAF in China under Chenault crewing P-51D's:052: . When those Zero's came buzzing around they used to shoot at them with .30 carbines. I guess some resistance is better than none! Nice Arisaka!

[Rampager]

I think that was the idea with the AA sights. Even though they were of no real value on a rifle perhaps it was thought that at least you could do something other than run even if it was a futile attempt. But hey you never know, might get a lucky shot if the plane was low enough. Wasn't it a ground fired MG that killed the Red Baron?

[Longhorn789]

god those aircraft sites crack me up, by the time you got everything lined up the plane would be past you

Not sure a 7.7 would do much anyway unless you got very very very lucky.

From what I understand, the Zeros would use their 7.7 machine guns simply to target the American planes, then open up with their cannons once they were on target......And that is a 7.7 machine gun....not a single shot from a bolt gun.

Great tactical concepts there...Wonder why they lost?

[okie shooter]

I think we forget that when these rifles were devloped the aircraft they shot at was a far slower moving and frailer craft than those encountered during WWII, thus maybe in the twenties and thirties they has a chance against a far slower and lighter aircraft.