Man, I thought my CC9 was a good gun but this thing is amazing. So accurate and soft shooting. The only thing I hate is how long the DA pull is but for all the rest I’ll overlook that. Ignore the bottom half of the target, that was my CMP 1911 that has a terrible trigger. The large ragged holes were from the CT at 10 and 15yds.
Decided to bring out the trusty Vachettas today.
This Arisaka Type 99 is special to me. My grandfather brought it back from his time on Iwo Jima. He was in the US Army Air Force and landed on July 6 to help establish it as a strategic bomber base in the Pacific, assigned to the 555th Air Support Group.
He found it complete with bayonet in a cave one day and kept it. As you can see when he brought it back he had to remove the chrysanthemum.
I had always asked him about it and he just said he brought it back. He died in 1994. It sat in his garage in pieces from 1946 until my parents had it put back together for my college graduation in 2002. That’s when they found the clip strip of ammo for it.
It may not be worth much monetarily but it’s priceless to me.