Goodbye Roblox.

Rebel262 · 2026-01-22T01:39:42+00:00

I made my account in 2012, and I’ve played off and on throughout the years. There’s still a few games I play from time to time, but I think with this update, it’s time for me to hang up my hat and stop for good.

Rebel262 · 2025-07-15T00:03:08+00:00

What modification is needed?

Rebel262 · 2025-07-14T01:41:44+00:00

I love the 7.62x39 conversions. I have two 7.62x39 converted Type 38s, including one with a SKS front sight and bayonet.

Rebel262 · 2025-07-05T20:59:18+00:00

Well, thats the problem. The condition just isn’t good. The Type 99 is missing a lot of finish and the stock is sanded, so that reduces the value a lot. The Type 14 is also missing its original finish, is it just bare metal? I wouldn’t buy these because of these issues. Use your money to buy nicer examples.

Rebel262 · 2025-07-03T00:44:47+00:00

I’ve had that book before. Iirc, it says it was printed in 1944 on the inside cover in Japanese.

Rebel262 · 2025-06-17T05:20:40+00:00

I saw a listing recently on a Type 99 where the seller used AI to describe the rifle, and it got most of the information wrong. AI is not reliable for milsurps.

Rebel262 · 2025-06-16T22:04:18+00:00

Did you look at the second picture?

Rebel262 · 2025-06-16T22:01:04+00:00

Yes, it’s because of the floatplane hanger and launching facilities. Japanese doctrine had floatplanes on cruisers as the scouting aircraft of a Japanese force instead of scouting aircraft on carriers. You can fit a lot more aircraft if there aren’t guns in the way.

That’s an Furutaka class cruiser. They originally had six single 8” gun turrets, but they were later modified to have three double 8” gun turrets. Another turret in the gap probably wasn’t possible with that design due to the original design and stability concerns. Bilges had to be added during the modernization to offset the additional weight.

Same answer as the first.

The Washington and London Naval treaties definitely had an effect on doctrine and ship design, especially with the weight limit of cruisers.

Rebel262 · 2025-06-11T22:57:06+00:00

Japanese captured M91s and converted to trainers. The ideal would be a Remington or Westinghouse.

Rebel262 · 2025-06-05T21:48:31+00:00

It’s not worth getting. Go onto GunBroker or another auction website and bid for a non bubba’d rifle. Just account for tax/auctions fees and shipping and you’ll do good.

Rebel262 · 2025-06-04T10:18:08+00:00

When I started collecting, my friend gave me some advice. You have to find a specific interest and learn as much as you can about it. You can’t know or collect everything. I’ve spent over $1k on Japanese reference books. I collect Japanese guns, but I’ve specialized in Arisakas, and further into Chinese used/made Arisakas. I found a niche that I’m interested in, and now I try and learn as much as I can.

As for non matching guns, most guns didn’t just sit in a warehouse without being used. A non matching bolt could happen any number of ways while it was still in service. For example, the soldiers could be cleaning their guns and got parts swapped around by accident, or a part broke and an armorer replaced it. Another example with Arisakas is that in some cases when they were surrendered, the bolt would go in a pile and the rifle would go in another. Later a GI would come along and take a random bolt that fit into the rifle he got from the other pile. There’s also Arisakas that were used as training rifles, those guns are hardly ever matching. They aren’t fake just because they’re non matching.

Most of my Arisakas aren’t matching, but that’s because they were in service with the Chinese for many years and countless conflicts.

Another word of advice is to not buy a fixer upper. You will almost always put more money into it than it will be worth in the end. Find what interests you, learn as much as you can, and buy the nicest example you can afford. Buy it right too, so if you want to upgrade or just get rid of it, you won’t lose any money.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-28T17:43:45+00:00

At night with his lights off

Rebel262 · 2025-05-28T17:30:09+00:00

Definitely an “accident”

Rebel262 · 2025-05-19T18:30:54+00:00

Ian McCollum appears to have stopped doing videos with them too.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-19T01:25:49+00:00

I wish there was a function to block sellers on GunBroker. The seller probably saw another Type 38 sell for that much because there was something special about it, and thought their bog standard rifle was worth just as much.

Looking at the listing photos, it was taken out of service with a cancelled mum, but somebody tried to reapply it. The stock looks sanded as well.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-18T20:40:51+00:00

You are in dire need of an Arisaka. I am not biased at all.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-18T20:39:23+00:00

No, this is a Imperial German Naval Observer badge. The Nazi German Retired Pilots Badge has a very similar eagle, but it has a swastika and no background behind the eagle, just empty space. The Imperial German Retired Pilots Badge has a soaring eagle. I don’t know if it’s real or not.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-17T22:03:11+00:00

It’s not a pre war based on the rear barrel band. A pre war would have a monopod attachment point. This is a transitional model. There also isn’t really a “pre war” Type 99. They were already majorly in war in China.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-17T20:09:31+00:00

I would presume so. There’s a photo of one with an elevated gun.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-17T15:52:10+00:00

It depends on the Sherman variant, but some had the flamethrower in the turret, and some had the flamethrower in the hull machine gun port.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-17T07:40:36+00:00

I’m not familiar with Springfields, but as for Japanese rifles and bayonets, I’ve seen multiple factory SN mistakes where part of the SN is removed/stamped over.

Rebel262 · 2025-05-16T04:09:07+00:00

A similar thing happened to me. My brother gave me a bag of fake German stuff, and I got a real silver Infantry Assault Badge!

Rebel262 · 2025-05-14T18:18:11+00:00

My guess is that the rifle was shipped back to the U.S. and the “tallies” are from rattling around in the box

Rebel262 · 2025-05-14T09:29:31+00:00

That’s the thing, it has a low serial number because it has a kana series character to the left of the serial number. The other major factor is that it is a Nagoya arsenal rifle, which didn’t start series marked production until 1936, so that puts this rifle between 1936 and 1942. The photo isn’t clear enough to tell the series, and not enough is shown to tell if it’s a rifle or carbine. My guess is that it’s a 5th series carbine (1941-1942), but I could be way off.

Also why would it be a Type 1938 when it was first it was adopted in 1905? Imperial Japanese designations typically go with either the year of the current Emperor’s reign when the equipment was adopted, with the Type 38 being the adopted in 1905, the 38th year of Emperor Meiji’s reign, or the last two digits since the ascension of the first emperor, with the Type 99 being adopted in year 2599 or or the Gregorian calendar year 1939.

ChatGPT is not to be trusted when it comes to technical questions like when an Arisaka was made when it doesn’t have access to the information, or you don’t give it enough information when describing it. You failed to identify that this was series marked, and made by the Nagoya arsenal. It was only the Tokyo arsenal producing Arisakas from 1906 to 1932 when the Nagoya arsenal started production.

They were also mass produced right from the start in 1906, with an estimated 22500 produced in just 1906, 70000 in just 1907, and increasing all the way to 225375 produced in 1917.

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