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Post by warbirdguy1 on Mar 23, 2012 10:35:42 GMT -5
Alright, for the T99 all I can find is the Tanaka for $800, does anyone have any experience building a T99? Pics and pointers would be a great help!
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Post by Schmozilla on Mar 23, 2012 14:06:44 GMT -5
RS ones go for around 200-600 depending where you find them, as for a base gun, maybe a M500 or a Bar10. from looking around our armory i think someone did a t99....
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Post by warbirdguy1 on Mar 23, 2012 14:11:45 GMT -5
Good point, I will go looking too, thank you  |
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 6, 2013 20:24:45 GMT -5
Just thinking about the Type 99 and the problem of it being very thin making a VSR 10 problematic. Has anyone had any experience using the UHC Super 9 Pro as a base? Since it has a long, thin strip mag the mounts on the left side of the receiver (yeah, yeah, it'll look wrong) you could get away with a thin stock. The bolt is a bit thick, but that shouldn't be a problem with the Arisaka cap on the end of the bolt. Thoughts? I have no experience with the Super 9, so I don't know if it's a POS or not.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 6, 2013 23:34:53 GMT -5
The Super 9 is a POS. Absolutely nothing Super about it! the Arisaka is a very very thin stock. The MP001 is somewhat thinner than the Bar 10 VSR but you absolutely have to install an upgraded trigger box as they eat their young in just a few hundreds rounds.
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Post by sgtkillroy1944 on Nov 7, 2013 23:19:52 GMT -5
Im about to start a type 99 build using the using the super 9 as a base rifle, as of right now im locating real steal components and hope to have the gun fully built some time here in the near future all update you folks as the build continues!
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 26, 2013 19:07:22 GMT -5
Just a vaguely related note. I participated in a "Warhorse Shoot" over the weekend, a fun target shoot restricted to unmodified bolt action military rifles. One guy showed up with an Arisaka Type 38. You don't realize how thin that sucker is until you put it next to a M1917 Enfield or No. 1 MkIII Enfield. He did pretty good with it, except that the firing pin jammed during the balloon busting event, bad news in a speed event. Which, btw, I won, popping 3 balloons with 4 shots with my Swiss K31.
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Post by stuka on Nov 26, 2013 19:50:17 GMT -5
nice job but yeah, Sir arisaka didn't have airsoft in mind when he made the stocks haha
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Post by 2nd Bat on Nov 26, 2013 22:00:08 GMT -5
While precise dimensions are alway worth striving for, sometimes for the purposes of filling a gap with a custom build of a desired weapon not curently available sometimes compromises have to be made or the model just won't be. I try whenevet possible to have the real deal present so I have a template of perfection but once build I get tje actual gun as far away as possible so the infidelities won't mke me crazy. Typically if you've done your best, n the absence of the real gun most people find the representation quite good. The Arisaka always seemed like a toy "DRILL RIFLE" rather then an issued weapon. Frankly if it was a little thicker few people would notice and it would probably end up as a better looking rifle!
For these bolt action springer conversions. Far and above the easiest approach is to marry a lower forestock to the base rifles main stock. CUT, shape and fill the butt stock area to replicate and match the model you're depicting and use what you can from the upper handguard and receiver group area. The more actual hardware and stock bits you can use the better but if you can leave the main stock relatively alone you feed system, trigger and hop up arrangement is all as t was. This dramatically impacts your reliability and simplicity of build.
I recently did an extremely elaborate SMLE build which pretty much made me crazy. In the same amount of time dedicated to that one build and at 1/3rd the cost I built eight very simpke but decent SMLEs. See Cheap SMLE in the DIY section.
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Post by stuka on Nov 27, 2013 10:43:44 GMT -5
You *can* use a mosin nagant or a k98 as a stand in, while they weren't common, the Japanese did use them here and there and with the invasion of china they would have a larger stockpile i believe of k98's since china got most of it's weaponry from germany(which i find funny)
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Post by volkssturm on Nov 27, 2013 12:33:53 GMT -5
You *can* use a mosin nagant or a k98 as a stand in, while they weren't common, the Japanese did use them here and there and with the invasion of china they would have a larger stockpile i believe of k98's since china got most of it's weaponry from germany(which i find funny) Even funnier (in the sense of "ironic") at the battle of Shanghai in 1937 German officers were advising the Chinese troops fighting the Japanese. Earlier, Chiang Kai Shek had contracted with the Germans to train and reorganize his army. German General Hans von Seeckt, who'd been the head of the Reichswehr in the '20's, headed up the mission. I believe it was a commercial arrangement with the approval of the German government rather than an official German military mission. It also provided a place to hide out for some Jewish-German officers who were being purged from the army. |
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