🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Gun Part Identification needed.

[oldbattleaxe]

What did this part come off of? Thanks for the expertise here.

 

[TimberCrack]

What did this part come off of? Thanks for the expertise here.

its a barrel lug....the muzzleloading barrel locked into this piece which was located on the for-stock..looks modern..

 

[crashbandicoot]

Nice ID TimberCrack!

 

[oldbattleaxe]

its a barrel lug....the muzzleloading barrel locked into this piece which was located on the for-stock..looks modern..

Thank you. I knew I would get this solved.

 

[oldbattleaxe]

Solved

 

[l.cutler]

OK, I have been racking my brain on this one. I knew I had worked on a gun with this part but was having trouble placing it. Finally came to me. it is the upper tang for a Japanese type 38 Arisaka rifle.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Agree it could not be a hooked breech for a muzzleloader. Good ID.

 

[uniface]

I.cutler's right.

 

[Georgivs]

OK, I have been racking my brain on this one. I knew I had worked on a gun with this part but was having trouble placing it. Finally came to me. it is the upper tang for a Japanese type 38 Arisaka rifle.

Wow good eye! Those are truly cursed guns

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Actually, the Type 38 was a pretty good service rifle until about 1942 when the Nagoya Arsenal stopped producing them.