I had my eye out for a last ditch rifle, but it was never on the top of my have to get list.
A friend made me an offer a while back that added this last ditch Type 99 to my collection.
He had a last ditch T99 and told me he would be willing to tread it for some stock work and some bullets for reloading his .243. He had two Parker Hale rifles in 30-06 that were in some simi fancy stocks. One had been poorly refinished by someone and the other was showing some age.
He said that if I refinished the two stocks, add Limb Saver recoil pads and could make them look like twins, he would give me the T99. Plus the bullets for reloading.
Well I finished up the stocks and brought them to him. He was so happy with the stocks that he threw in a bayonet with the rifle.
My friend told me that his dad brought it home at the end of WWII.
Well here is the rifle.

It's a 34th Series "Substitute" ( last ditch ) Type 99 short rifle manufactured by Toyo Kogyo of Hiroshima City under Kokura Arsenal supervision during the last quarter of 1944.  

Other then cleaning some rust off the rifle, I will left it as is. Anytime a Japanese rifle is refinished it loses just about all collectors value. This one will go into my war collection, not my pretty gun collection.
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And the Bayonet: Nagoya Arsenal Type 30 bayonet
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That's pretty.  I sold my 99.  If you load 6.5mm ammo into it, according to my brother it goes,"Bloop!" and splits the case mouth.  He won't test fire my guns anymore.  

Are you going to @ least clean the rust off the bayonet?  It would be nice to have groups w/ & w/o.  

Slumming ain't ya C-Man.

I've a Nagoya series 11 and it's everything I've ever wanted from a "last ditch" Type 99.

It is a matching example with a ground mum.  The bore/crown is excellent and it has a surprisingly crisp 4.5lb trigger pull. It's a great shooter.

It is gloriously rough as a cob. I swear the stock looks like it was carved out with a draw knife, wood rasp, and a whittling knife and may very well have been! It still has the original Urushi finish.

The barrel exterior could be used as a wood rasp what with the deep tooling marks.  3-nail wood BP and single screw sling swivels. The hardware is rough and unfinished (maybe stove black on them) with welded front and rear bands.

I remember thinking when I traded for it (a Romanian M69 .22) that I got beat but as it turns out it's one of my favorite mil-surps.

I found the late bayonet for it at a yard sale. To me a Type 38 or 99 is not complete without a bayonet.

Awesome piece !!  Mum too,  nice find

You've got some sweet posts there Gunny.

Dont shoot it

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Nice rifle Roland

There is nothing wrong with shooting Last ditch rifle. But with all surplus firearms you should check headspace and be sure that the rifle is in shooting condition.

Here are the stocks that I worked on for the tread.
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after
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The bayonet was oiled and pit away, nothing eles.