Type 38 Infantry gun
Caliber - 6mmBB pellets
Category - GasGun
Capacity - 10+1 Rounds
HOP UP - Variable HOP UP
Overall Length - 1280mm
Overall Height - 160mm
Width - 96mm
Weight - 3457g
Main materials - Wood Stock, Zinc die casting
The Type 38 rifle Arisaka (三八式歩兵銃 Sampachi-shiki hohējū) is a manually operated, rotating bolt design. For a time it was the standard rifle of the Japanese infantry. It was known also as the Type 38 Year Meiji Carbine in Japan. An earlier, similar weapon was the Type 30 Year Meiji Rifle, which was also used alongside it. Both of these weapons were also known as the Arisaka, after the inventor.
The Arisaka Type 38 rifle was heavily influenced by contemporary Mauser designs, but also had some unique features. Mauser-type bolt has two frontal lugs, and non-rotating Mauser-type claw extractor. Mauser-type integral magazine held five rounds, and was loaded using either stripper clips or loose rounds. One specific feature of Arisaka rifles was the sliding bolt cover, which protected the receiver openings from harsh pacific climate, and reciprocated along with the bolt. This feature was hardly useful, especially as it rattled when the bolt was operated. Not surprisingly, many soldiers removed these covers from their rifles. Another specific feature of Arisaka Type 99 rifles was the anti-aircraft sight with lead bars, intended for shooting at low flying aircrafts. This feature also had a very little practical value, as even the 7.7mm ammunition was way too weak to do any serious damage to WW2 era attack air crafts. The manual safety is controlled by the large rotating knob at the rear end of the bolt. The knob is usually serrated (late-war rifles has no serrations as a money and time-saving measure), and had an indexing groove, which allows to check the state of the safety manually and visually. Some rifles, including Type 02 paratroop rifles, also have folding monopods, made from steel wire and located under the forend. The paratroop rifles were easily disassembled into two parts, the receiver with the buttstock, and the barrel with the fore end. To take the rifle down into two major parts, one must unscrew and then pull the cross wedge out, and then pull the barrel forward and out of the receiver.
