Value of an all original arisaka type 99?

Answer 1

Not much....there are tons of them in the US. But it is a nice, solid rifle to shoot if you can find ammo.

If it's in good shape and has the monopod, bolt cover, leather strap and bayonette then it's worth around $325

If it still has the flower emblem on the top of the barrel then $400.

If it has an original optical scope then much more.

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There are some that are worth upwards of a thousand bucks or more. There are not many left in USA. Many have been chopped and sporterized and scrapped.

Finding one such as a type 99 early manufacture with the Emperor's Crest intact and 70% or better original blue and original stock in original military configuration with clear markings and proofs and fair to decent wood with the dust cover over the bolt, and the fold-out "wings" to the rear sight intact (for shooting at aircraft) is really difficult now...especially with the original bolt still in the gun, and bright bore. In fact it is getting nearly impossible to find them like that. The early manufactured ones were excellent steel, excellent machining, and withstood test pressures to explosive destruction that went beyond the Mauser K98!

Sources of parts are drying up. There are little bits here and there. After 1945, no government really used these rifles. Not like the K98, which was used right up into the 1980's in some parts of the world. Sources for 6.5 Jap and 7.7 Jap ammo are getting slim as well. Very expensive for new manufacture. Surplus is pretty well shot out and gone. Boxer-type brass casings for reloading are available, but expensive.

Many Japanese soldiers discarded the dustcovers as too noisy. Many of these rifles left the factory without the fold-out "wings" on the rear sights. Much of the ammunition that was once available and frequently fired in these rifles was very corrosive to barrels and actions. The vast majority of these rifles saw much hard use. Both MacArthur and elements of the Jap high command ordered the crests ground off these rifles in connection with some surrender agreements.

I scored onethat is absolutely perfect on a stroke of luck - except that some fool took a saw to the stock to make a deer gun out of it. It took me several years to find an original stock for it. I put this one up for my Son or Grand-kid to inherit some day.

When I was a youngster, I can remember the local hardware / discount store had new trash cans that were crammed full of type 99 Arisaka rifles, 88 commission rifles, Siamese mausers, 98 mausers, Carcanos, Steyr-Manlichers, and you could have anyone you wanted from $16.00 to $30.00 depending on the rifle. The majority were hard suplus even then. Either rusted dark brown, or sticky with grease that may have been cosmoline. There was very cheap ammo there in little tan cardboard boxes and wrapped in paper with string tied around it. People bought them and hunted with them, and then sold them. No one was really collecting them like now. The vast majority were sawed up into Frankenstein-like experimental deer rifles, and that was a cryin' shame.

Answer 2

50-500 depending on specifics