Japanese Military Firearms.

Nambu Type 94

feeds@yuku.com (papaken) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:38:33 GMT

Good afternoon, folks. I'm new here and I hope you will help me with a question. I have been asked to help an elderly lady dispose of a gun that her husband brought back from Japan after the war. I figured out that it is a Nambu Type 94 with the date code 10.8 (August 1935?) and a serial number in the 200's. I have only seen a photo of the gun but it appears to be in excellent condition - based on the guns that I own I would guess this one to be 95% or maybe even better than that....

And, I looked at a stocked Nambu recently.......

feeds@yuku.com (heckinohio) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:04:53 GMT

I showed up in the middle of a sales discussion about it and wandered on. After I got home, I decided if it was still there Sept show, I was going for it. I cant recall if it had wooden or aluminum based mags, one was marked matching, I did'nt see any comment about the stock being a match. $17,500. as I recall...........

Any comment or assistance here??? PJHeck heckinohio@att.net

Have 20 rnds tracer.........

feeds@yuku.com (heckinohio) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:00:58 GMT

reloads in Norma cases. I dont know the bullet weight, 56 gr IMR #4895. My reloader requires me to change the shell holder for Norma and for only 20 I have decided it not worth the trouble.........so anyone want these??? I have fired a bunch in my M-99, some light most do not. PJHeck heckinohio@att.net

My T-14 Nambu

feeds@yuku.com (Old CooT) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:01:56 GMT

I inherited this Nambu many years ago, it is dated 18.12, it came with the clamshell holster, a matching # mag plus 2 spare mags, and the cleaning rod in the holster, the lanyard came back from the war with it too.. It is going out to the range tomorrow along with a colt combat comando relvolver in .38 spl. (1943 vintage).

I saw the info on converting the 357 sig brass and that got me interested in shooting the thing again..for now, I still got that weak aussie brass tho..
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Question for John

feeds@yuku.com (riceone) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:16:14 GMT

Doing some work on a Japanese bolt handle and need to restor the brown patina to match rest of bolt. What do I use?
Thanks, riceone

Blueprints

feeds@yuku.com (JohnLawson1) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:48:35 GMT

Does anyone have access to blueprints of the Type 14 and Type 94 pistols?
I recently obtained a set of reproduction grips from Wayne that sorta fit his pistol but were at least a quarter of an inch too small for one of mine.

My new Japanese type 14

feeds@yuku.com (RGRWJB) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:57:56 GMT

Here is my new find:

7mm Baby Nambu handloading.

feeds@yuku.com (ramon) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:22:57 GMT

T38 Series 28 with M

feeds@yuku.com (riceone) — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:50:40 GMT

I just got this T38 with an "M" in place of a mum on the receiver. This one never had a mum but was stamped with the M to denote non military us. Its in the same class as the Concentric Circle marked rifles. I don't know how rare this is but its the first I ever heard of outside of Fred's books. riceone.

Type 99 Conversion to 22 Rimfire

feeds@yuku.com (TRS4923) — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:07:58 GMT

I'm trying to find other collectors who have converted military rifles to rimfire. Here is my latest project.

New Japanese Military site

feeds@yuku.com (RGRWJB) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:42:47 GMT

Roy has a top notch site:

http://www.riceone1.com/index.html

The intent of these forums

feeds@yuku.com (RGRWJB) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:24:39 GMT

There has been some talk on this site as well as some other sites, about the success or failure of how some different Mil Surp sites on the Internet run. Some may think that a large amount of posts is a measure of success. It is not.

My gauge on whether a site is successful or not is the quality of the people at that site (no matter how many is there), the content and how many people hit that site.

I know that some...

arisaka dealers

feeds@yuku.com (cowhide1) — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:38:13 GMT

I am looking for my first Japanese rifle, and am having a hard time finding any online. I do not want a auction site, but a reliable online dealer some of you might have used. I have looked at Simpson arms, but he is a little too pricey for me. Thanks for any help!

Reference Material on Japanese Rifles

feeds@yuku.com (riceone) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:32:10 GMT

Japanese Collectors are fortunate to have so much materal avaliable to them. Few years back it was not so, but now if you want to know you can. Here are a few of the books I have.

The Type 38 Arisaka, by Francis C. Allan and Harold W. Macy

Rifle, U.S. Type 99 Japanese Cal. 30, by Doss H. White

Japanese Military Rifles 1543 - 2000 +, By Doss and Ruth White

The Early Arisakas, by Francis C. Allan and Dr. Stanley Zielinski

Japanese Rifle of World Way 11, by...

Japanese subguns

feeds@yuku.com (Miatax) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:26:06 GMT

Question was asked about IDing a Japanese submachinegun. Try "Small Arms of the World," by Smith, "Handbook of Japanese Military Forces," "Combzt Weapons, Japanese, Vol 2." All but Smith may be hard to find.

The "common" subgun was the Type 100 or 100/4. Don't remember the differences, but they were essentially the same gun, fired the 8mm Nambu round.

Pistol Lanyards

feeds@yuku.com (JohnLawson1) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:36:55 GMT

I just had an interesting conversation with a very knowledgeable Japanese collector regarding "standard" lanyards for the T-14 and T-94 pistols during WW-II.
Lanyards were not made by the arsenals where pistols were made, but were produced by cottage industries. This fact explains the wide diversity of lanyards retrned with souvenier pistols.
I have three types: A dark brown lanyard with a joining leather piece and a loop piece through which the neck portion can slide to size...

Nambu pistols T-14

feeds@yuku.com (srmike700) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:31:32 GMT

I have 20 nambu pistols with dates ranging from
6.X through 20.X. I wish to sell and would appreciate
advice as to a good way to go about it.
I live in California so would probably have to sell
to an FFL out of Calif. ??

type 38 carbine restoration

feeds@yuku.com (rcarbldr) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:41:56 GMT

Now that ebay has instituted new policy i don't know where to turn for parts. I have found numrich's site but they currently don't have a firing pin. anyone out there can help me out would be greatly appreciated.

Finnish Civil War ammo in 6.5 Japanese

feeds@yuku.com (RGRWJB) — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:12:20 GMT

This was picked up in Finland:

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Japanese military spotting scope

feeds@yuku.com (edm812) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:51:38 GMT

I have owned a Japanese military spotting scope with tripod for a long time. I have been to several large gun shows and talked with the optics people and I can't find anything out about this scope. I took it to a military collector but all he wanted to do was buy it. Anyways, this scope & tripodis unique in that it is rough pale green finish. The scope has a 5/8" end cap that has 4 female threads to hold 4 of the 5 eyepieces. There is also an tube extension that screws onto the...