....ok- T99 long info please.....

[Herr Mario]

.....as some of you know,I have a TK Series 35 T99 long.....I have BOTH the MROJ and the newType 99 Arisaka Rifle book by Doss White and Don Voigt (autographed...:D )....after reading thru both I still cant find-and have one nagging question.....I keep hearing other collectors say that this riflr was built in 42-or such and such was made in 44.....unless I missed something someplace,all I can find on mine is that it was produced between 41-45,cant seem to find info to narrow it down more.....where on earth do these fellas come up with this info..????....ther serno on mine is 24291,and is all matching with staked screws-so I really dont wanna take it apart:rolleyes: ....can somebody point me the right way to find out????
............and for some reason-this area of the country seems a bit on the dry side for Japanese firearms-because I'd sure like to aquire a few more when the funds materialize...:xxrotflmao:

[arisakadogs]

If the screws are staked - don't take it apart. Won't tell you when it was made anyway. These were discontinued early on in T-99 production. T-99 production data with dates is sketchy, but I'd think they were discontinued by 1942. Too bad they didn't mark these like the pistols so we knew the dates.

[raym]

Herr Mario, Which boat is that in your avatar?

[Herr Mario]

...USS Saratoga CV-60....that photo taken in Oct. of 1975.....I happened to be below deck in CVIC (formerly known as IOIC) when that pic was snapped
....:D

...sorry it took some time to answer-was gone for the Xmas holiday...:o

[arisakadogs]

I was on the USS Independence CV-62 Dec '71 through Jan '74.

[raym]

Kind of thought that might be the Shi*y Sara AKA the Fighting Cock! I rode her across from Rota to Mayport in July Aug of 76. Where you still aboard then? Started the cruise on the America in April 76 but the cats had ripped
the belly open on two of our three RF8Gs. So we had a 4 month Med cruise! And I spent a month of that TAD in Rota with nothing to do but get drunk!
What I remember about the Sara was even the bug juice tasted like JP5 and we went through a hell of a storm just before getting to Mayport. And I believe they reset the ships clock 8 hours all at once before we got home.
Didn't some guy blow his horn before all annouchments on the 1mc on that boat?

Ray

[Herr Mario]

....dang...!!!sister ships...:D ....I got to spend a few days on her about a year after you left her....what rate were you???....was flying back from Philly thru Spain,then Rome....the Sara hadda pull out of Naples a lil' early before our group got back to Fleet Landing because of some crap goin' on in Lebanon so we had to board her and stay onboard long enough to get closer,then got got a COD ride back "home"......:xxrotflmao: .....at least I think it was the Indy....might have been Forrestal-they're all the same class....I just remember one of them was one cruise,then had similar experience the next cruise,so I had a few days on both...:xxrotflmao: .....72-76 for me-VA-75,Intelligence Specialist...Med was is interesting than Yankee Station...:xxrotflmao:

[Herr Mario]

Kind of thought that might be the Shi*y Sara AKA the Fighting Cock! I rode her across from Rota to Mayport in July Aug of 76. Where you still aboard then? Started the cruise on the America in April 76 but the cats had ripped
the belly open on two of our three RF8Gs. So we had a 4 month Med cruise! And I spent a month of that TAD in Rota with nothing to do but get drunk!
What I remember about the Sara was even the bug juice tasted like JP5 and we went through a hell of a storm just before getting to Mayport. And I believe they reset the ships clock 8 hours all at once before we got home.
Didn't some guy blow his horn before all annouchments on the 1mc on that boat?

Ray


....oh man- just missed you too...!!....My time was up in April of 76-I never finished the last Med Cruise....took a liberty launch to Naples and then a bus to Sigonella-I think......flew to Rota from there,then wasted 5 days waiting for a hop back to Philadelphia to get discharged....was lotsa fun sittin in the cargo section with a bunch of flag draped coffins across the Atlantic...
.....was ol' Humpty Dumpty still there on the wall by the Base Exchange with her brood...??? ....yup-EVERYTHING tasted like JP-5


....look more familiar?????

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http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/100_1103.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/100_0510.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/100_0449.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/100_0464copy.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/nampatch.jpg
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/HerrMario/100_0448.jpg

....I suppose this should be in a seperate post or thread-I'll have to ask one of the mod's here to move it...

[arisakadogs]

Back to T-99 Longs. I have two Nagoya T-99 longs. One is S/N 998 and the other is S/N/ 3450. The early one has "straw" colored springs, sight screws and trigger and the other is all blued.