Below is a photo of an American nisei soldier modeling the Japanese paratrooper gear. The rifle was designed to be carried in a bag on the soldier’s chest. The bolt, bolt parts and bayonet lug will match the last digits of the rifle’s serial number. The barrel, receiver, locking wedge and the two sheet metal plates on the left side will all bear this assembly number. Some will have a period before the number.
The two halves are matched together with a 3 assembly number. The hook tears up the wood around the swivel if one was ever used. Such slings were used on standard Type 99s (and similar ones for the LMGs) but these were the only rifles that received such a cutout. A cutout above the rear sling swivel was cut into the stock to allow the hook of the quick detach sling to easily come on and off. The cleaning rod for these rifles are almost like a standard full length Type 99 cleaning rod, but are about 2 inches shorter thanks to the fact the rifle breaks in half where a normal cleaning rod would end on a Type 99. A special bayonet was made for these rifles that are shorter than the standard Type 30 bayonet. Later rifles lacked chrome bolt faces, but all seem to have chromed barrels. None of the rifles came with the simplified “last ditch” parts, but a few in about 3/4 of production run seem to have rougher “spoke shaved” made stocks before returning to “normal” smooth sanded stocks. It has it’s AA sight wings, earlier made rifles would have come with a dust cover, but none have a monopod. The features of a Type 2 is what you would expect find on a Type 99 made in late 1943 by Nagoya Arsenal. It’s to allow for stretching.Īll rifles were made by Nagoya Arsenal starting in late 1943 through early 1944 and about 20,000 were made in total.
This is why the screw that the wedge attaches to won’t screw all the way into the receiver. Now if the action stretches from firing, the wedge would just be driven into it’s matching surface on the barrel deeper. To fix the stretching issue the designers came up with an angled wedge. The Type 100 was found to be the better design of the two prototypes and more work went on perfecting it. It was found that the more the rifle was fired the threads would stretch more and more and because of that the design was rejected. The Type 100 was a better design being a standard Type 99 quite literally cut down the middle between the chamber and barrel with an interrupted thread design added to mate the two halves back together. The hinge was weak and the stock prone to cracking. The Type 1 was a Type 38 carbine that had it’s stock cut in half right behind the action and a hinge installed to allow the two pieces to fold. Adopted in 1943 ( or 26 02 in the Japanese Imperial calendar), the Type 2 was the first and only production rifle made for Japanese paratroopers after the earlier prototypes, the Type 100 and Type 1 were found to be unsatisfactory.
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