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Gunreference1
11-20-2010, 11:23 AM
Saturday, November 20th, 2010 at 12:39 am

Japanese Rifles of World War II

Gun Collecting
By Peter Peter Suciu

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Japanese Arisaka Rifles

Michigan --(Ammoland.com)- Japanese rifles often get a bad rap, at least when compared to the rifles of the other major combatant powers of World War II.

Even collectors of militaria view the Japanese rifles as being of a lower quality, but this isn’t quite true.

One reason for this misconception is that much of what survived, and is now in collections is actually from the later war years, thus not up to the highest quality.

To read the rest of the story click the link below.

http://www.ammoland.com/2010/11/20/japanese-arisaka-rifles/

Steve

aliceinchains
11-20-2010, 11:45 AM
Good article there Steve. :thumbsup: