Type 38 rifle from the collections of the Swedish Army Museumħ62 m/s (2,500 ft/s) Type 38 cartridge
Arisaka Serial Numbers By Year Of Production.They were the longest rifles among their contemporaries even before the 400-mm Type 30 bayonets were attached, making them rather unwieldy the length of the rifles reflected the emphasis of bayonet fighting in Japanese Army doctrine during that era. Ww2dbase The Arisaka Type 38 bolt-action rifles, also known as Meiji 38th Year (1905) rifles, were the standard infantry rifles of the pre-WW2 Japanese Army. The thinking is that the no sereis was a 'tooling up' run for Nagoya and most of the rifles were issued right off the assembly line to schools. The observed serial number range is 2021802 to 2031433 with a production run of only about 6000 rifles. The serial number range for the Nagoya '0' series Type 38 begins in the 2 million range. The chrome lined barrel is from the spare parts left over from the 'junk' parts left over from earlier type 99s. The parts used in the last versions are of the poorest quality. While the arisaka is by far the strongest action of all ww2 rifles. There are about 8 diffrent types of the 'last ditch' rifles.