Original Antique Japanese Type 30 Arisaka 6.5mm Infantry Rifle Serial 3 00783 with Hook Safety and "Withdrawn" Chrysanthemum Crest Category_Francotte-Martini Rifles & Parts 115th Infantry Regiment After Action

115th Infantry Regiment After Action Report

For the next two years

The paint of this scabbard is still bright and shows some age spidering but overall it is nearly all there and looks excellent

It has never been sharpened for use in the field

We checked the bore of this

Original Antique Japanese Type 30 Arisaka 6.5mm Infantry Rifle Serial 3 00783 with Hook Safety and "Withdrawn" Chrysanthemum Crest Category_Francotte-Martini Rifles & Parts 115th Infantry Regiment After ActionOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Type 30 rifle Arisaka (, Sanj nen shiki hoheij; 'year 30 type infantry firearm') is a box fed bolt action repeating rifle that was the standard infantry rifle of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1897 (the 30th year of the Meiji period, hence "Type 30") to 1905. Manufacture started in 1897 at Koishikawa Arsenal (, Koishikawa Ksh) in Tokyo, and production continued until 1905, with about 600,000 rifles and carbines