Last ditch Type 99 Arisaka
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:13 pm
I have had my eye out for a last ditch rifle, but it has never been on the top of my have to get list.
A friend made me an offer a few months back. He had a last ditch T99 and told me he would be willing to tread it for some stock work and some bullets for reloading his .243. He had two Parker Hale rifles in 30-06 that were in some simi fancy stocks. One had been poorly refinished by someone and the other was showing some age.
He said that if I refinished the two stocks, add Limb Saver recoil pads and could make them look like twins, he would give me the T99. Plus the bullets for reloading.
Well I finished up the stocks last week and brought them to him. He was so happy with the stocks that he threw in a bayonet with the rifle.
I need to get a little more info from him on the rifle. All I know is that his dad brought it home at the end of WWII.
Well here is the rifle. Any info would be great.
And the Bayonet.
A friend made me an offer a few months back. He had a last ditch T99 and told me he would be willing to tread it for some stock work and some bullets for reloading his .243. He had two Parker Hale rifles in 30-06 that were in some simi fancy stocks. One had been poorly refinished by someone and the other was showing some age.
He said that if I refinished the two stocks, add Limb Saver recoil pads and could make them look like twins, he would give me the T99. Plus the bullets for reloading.
Well I finished up the stocks last week and brought them to him. He was so happy with the stocks that he threw in a bayonet with the rifle.
I need to get a little more info from him on the rifle. All I know is that his dad brought it home at the end of WWII.
Well here is the rifle. Any info would be great.
And the Bayonet.