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Guamsst
09-08-2011, 09:34
I picked up a training rifle, type 99 long style. Serial number is 1.

It is my understanding they started rifles with number 0 to account for 100,000 rifles per series. Anyone ever see a 0? Anyone know if it applies to training rifles?

I don't expect this gun to go for $10,000 or anything, just a neat piece and it raised a few questions for me. It is in excellent condition with dust cover too so I'm happy to have another neat item.
jangle
09-08-2011, 07:35
A friend of mine inspected Nagoya 6th series receiver #0 several years ago. Congrats on your recent find!
pdawg1911
09-12-2011, 10:23
Are you going to throw us a photo?




I picked up a training rifle, type 99 long style. Serial number is 1.

It is my understanding they started rifles with number 0 to account for 100,000 rifles per series. Anyone ever see a 0? Anyone know if it applies to training rifles?

I don't expect this gun to go for $10,000 or anything, just a neat piece and it raised a few questions for me. It is in excellent condition with dust cover too so I'm happy to have another neat item.
Guamsst
09-12-2011, 02:23
I might, but it isn't very interesting, just a plain old 1. Oh crud, I just revealed the entire serial number to you guys....LOL
Johnny P
09-12-2011, 03:23
I picked up a training rifle, type 99 long style. Serial number is 1.

It is my understanding they started rifles with number 0 to account for 100,000 rifles per series. Anyone ever see a 0? Anyone know if it applies to training rifles?



If they started with 0, by the time they got to serial number 100000, they would have 100,001 rifles. Serial numbers 1 to 100000 would be exactly 100,000.
jangle
09-12-2011, 06:25
They didn't number to 100,000, only to 99,999. No six digit serial numbers during standard 99 production.
Guamsst
09-13-2011, 05:51
They didn't number to 100,000, only to 99,999. No six digit serial numbers during standard 99 production.

yep, not sure why they liked the smaller lots of 100,000 only but that's the way they did it.
Guamsst
09-13-2011, 09:56
Guess I should have specified type 38 action/99 long style stock. Here's some pics.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e153/guamsst/Trnr12.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e153/guamsst/Trnr13.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e153/guamsst/Trnr14.jpg
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e153/guamsst/Trnr1.jpg