Mr. Mojo Risin The Nambu is a bit quirky to field strip but it’s not really the Rube Goldberg device everybody makes it out to be. That being said I will admit that getting the magazine safety back in the gun was an absolute nightmare for me but as you saw here as long as you don’t touch that, nothing else is really that complicated.
@@simplymadness8849 ya I can see how it might be considered acceptable since the barrel, locking block and bolt assemlbly comes out as one piece and the recoil spring is self contained
At the end of the XIXth century or the beginning of the XXth, some pistols had adjustable tangent rear sight : Mauser C96, Luger P1914 artillery, Browning GP35... With a removable stock, U get a little semi-auto carbine.
@@methodeetrigueur1164 The Papa doesn't have the slot, i know it's a vestige of it's origins, but you are missing the lighthearted humour of my first post
The mommy namblu's disassembly has been lost to history. Legend says a man once successfully disassembled the hellish puzzle box and was cursed for the rest of his days by the demon it released.
The BBC has a story about goats taking over Llandudno in Wales, on account of the lockdown, but because we live in one of the other timelines it's not an April Fool's joke. It's true. Goes are slowly reclaiming Wales. The human age is drawing to an end and goats are the future.
Same, after watching Garand Thumb's video on the MA37 Assault Rifle as it was issued to the UNSC forces. :D It would be awesome if Ian did a video on the Mark II Lancer Assault Rifle.
@@michaelfodor6280 no offense, but I prefer Ian to NOT do aprils fools videos... while he has an awesome sense of humor, this isn't the channel for it. InRangeTv on the other hand...
Everyone: ”The sights go out to 500 meters.” Jerry Miculek: ”The sights go out to only 500 meters, so I have to compensate a little to make this 1000m shot.”
It's unfortunate Nambus (and Glisentis and Lahtis) have that superficial resemblance to the Luger. People seem to think they're some kind of copy or derivative when they're a whole different and very interesting thing.
Yeah. Like the Ruger Standard was actually a copy of the Nambu, and people thought it was a misspelled Luger. Bear in mind, in that particular part of the late 19th, beginning 20th century, half of the pistol designs in the world "looked a bit like Luger" (and that was not Luger's idea).
@rwsthedemonking the luger is really well made and pretty functional glisentis and lahtis are also reliable enough and nambus when functioning are really fun to shoot
@rwsthedemonking but none of those guns are completely impractical, some have reliability problems but all guns can that doesnt make it an objectively bad gun, especially when they were pretty terrific guns when they were designed but kept in service too long, case in point nambu
0:48 Hi Ian the word on the top of the grip is 那智[Nachi]. Is this the original owner's name or this Nambu is from IJN heavy cruisers Nachi?? word at the bottom I think is number [二]2 and a 0
I'd find it odd to see a naming or something similar to a spesific ship the pistol was sent to. Though it isn't unlike in idea to a spesific serial number to a spesific group of significant party members.
As a Japanese, I agree that it looks like '那智' vaguely. 那智 is very unusual as a personal name. (According to my quick research, there are only about 190 people whose surname is 那智) I think it is very plausible that this example is #20 pistol of IJN Nachi.
Engineer part of me feels sad that Nambu couldn't reach his full potential as a designer in Imperial Japan for many reasons. But another part of me is relieved that he didn't.
@@toki89666 I believe Ian-san would work for someone speaking in a more familiar way. Certainly for strangers, McCollum-San would be appropriate. Or, since we learn so much from Ian, McCollum-sensei, might be considered.
I see a word "那智" right there, that must be IJN heavy cruiser "Nachi". I believe it assures the Papa nambu was owned by Navy despite of having carving "陸式(army type)". EDIT: I did a quick research on why there is "陸式(army type)" carvings on guns that navy had. It seems like IJN had "Navy Land Forces" division on their own, because after seizing shores they had to maintain or expand their front line until their backup troops with heavy firearms arrive. In those days, Japanese naval forces were only responsible for ship combats but not taking over lands. Thus, the "Navy Land Forces" were categorized as hybrid troops of navy and army, so that's why the gun has army type carvings. This probably means only chosen troops on the heavy cruiser "Nachi" were eligible for owning the guns, so I can't stop feeling something special about the Papa nambu with "那智" writing (ツ)
Hi Ian, Nachi could be the last name of Japanese, the part of Mie prefecture, and the name of ww2 battle ship. I believe Japanese navy and army did separate r&d and Nambu was made for army. The marking is 20 as serial number just like normal Japanese do in order to make sure nothing is missing somewhere. So I guess its one of Nachi region's military base pistol inventory.
A good video, characteristic of your channel, including the insightful and informative content of your commentaries. (Learned some significant information about Japanese Navy's process of naming ships, among other things.) Keep on the high road.
i've always had a vague interest in guns but not known where to start. your artillery luger video was suggested to me recently and now i'm hooked. super informative and super interesting vids!
@@nafisbernafas9073 but it technically is in that case, The Japanese switched from 6.5 to 7.7 after looking at various cartridges (though idiotically changing mid-war) and the Type 99 is an illegal copy of the vz. 26 LMG that the BREN was legally designed off of.
Thanks for this interesting and informative video. This is a beautifully made pistol, but totally impractical because of its complexity. I love the intricate design and impressive machining and I would like to own one. This is as close as I will ever get.
When it comes to these guns that require complex disassembly, I always think of Dan Akroyd in the SNL sketch Bass-O-Matic. “Yes, it’s just that simple!!”
I used to think these looked silly, but now I think they're very cool. I had no idea they have a short recoil system, so the thin pencil barrel actually serves a purpose. Too bad they weren't chambered for a more powerful cartridge.
Those Chinese Character (Japanese do use some Chinese characters in their language, called Kanji 漢字) 陸式 roughly translate into "Ground Type". But it means it was adopted by IJN. As 陸式 is short for IJN Marine Corps Type (海軍陸戦隊). IJNMC acquired about 10000 pieces in 1924. Citation: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E9%83%A8%E5%A4%A7%E5%9E%8B%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E6%8B%B3%E9%8A%83
Ive got a nambu my grandfather brought back from the Philippines.. type 14 iirc. I did some research on it a few years ago and its a super low serial number with matching everything
FG 42 Bob unfortunately is currently in another state but it was only three digits.. 242 or something similar. My research back then said it was from the second month of the first year of production. Its in decent shape for what it is and had matching numbers on the mag and one or two other places on the gun. Don’t remember if it had the imperial seal mark or not. I also have a type 99 rifle from him and one of them did, i wanna say the rifle. I inherited a bunch of guns from him.. there’s a korean war era m1 garrand, a civil war springfield, a nice colt walker reproduction, a set of jefferson pistols( also reproduction), another 1700s flintlock and a high standard r107 22 revolver. They were all stored at my moms house in new Jersey while i went to school.. i moved to Colorado shortly after i finished. Never got around to getting them out here. Last time i handled them was several years ago. They Ain’t going anywhere.. they’d be cool to have but realistically the only ones id fire are the m1 and .22 and i have newer comparable guns here that don’t have the sentimental value so I’m cool with them being stored.
@@jseden Thank you for telling me about your gun. You need to buy the Nambu book by Jim Brown It isn't cheap but your gun is worth the knowlege. I had a Nagoya made pistol #116 Dated 2.1 # 115 is the lowest #in the Showa era.#112 is the highest # in the Tasho era. dated ? 15.6 Date 2.2 has an example #259. Early Guns like yours are very interesting and worth a lot more than later produced guns let several major collectors see your gun and get valuations from them (they ALL will want to buy it). The low # Kokura guns started at #0 very valuable also. Enjoy your great gun!
Sorry the book you need is . Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945: A Revised an (Hardcover) by Harry L Derby (Author) . It will cost you about $80.00 Your Grandfather paid a lot for it by going to War we all would like to thank him for his service. Bob Benson
FG 42 Bob thanks for the tip! I’ll look into it when things settle down and my financial situation has stabilized. A few years ago I met a guy with nambu 8mm ammo at a gun show and brought up my gun.. he insisted the serial number absolutely couldn’t be that low and that i was wrong about it but I was skeptical. We had everything appraised when he died as he was a big antique collector but i don’t necessarily trust it.. for instance, they called the m1 a carbine.. I have zero intention to sell anyway. They’re family heirlooms as far as I’m concerned. The only reason i ended up with them was because my mother and uncle (his children) arent into guns. My uncle only wanted the savage .22 for pest control.. he also insisted the japanese saber/katana (not sure of the proper designation) was his. That was also brought back from the war, along with a kris. Above all, thanks. My grandfather was a great guy. He enlisted young, might have lied about his age and retired a well decorated colonel. During the war, he commanded a unit of m7 armored personnel carriers and apparently the army was very impressed with his technique of bouncing shells to hit targets out of direct line of fire. He passed about 10 years ago shortly before his 92nd birthday and was put to rest at arlington per his wishes. Definitely a badass. Started teaching me to shoot when i was 9 or 10.
If I were to by a gun at, the fact that it was a gun you covered in a video would make it worth more to me. I mean a gun that comes with an instructional video with an explanation of the history is pretty cool. Not to mention the fact that it’s already shown off, saving me the time.
That's basically the Ruger Mk I-IV, except they reworked some of the weaker features (and made the disassembly even worse, until the Mk IV). Bill Ruger's original starting point was a Baby Nambu he'd picked up somewhere.
Years ago, I noticed the similarity of the Nambu lock block to that of the Federov Avtomat 1916. Given that Grandpa NambusMay havebeen used in the 1904-5 Russo- Japanese war, What is the likely-hood that Federov based his Recoil lock on Nambu's design??? DocAV
When you mentioned about Grandpa Nambu used in Russo- Japanese war.There is one surviving document that show that 300 round of 8mm Nambu sent to 3rd Artillery Brigade of IJA between 1904/11/16 - 1904/11/30 link: www.jacar.archives.go.jp/aj/meta/MetSearch.cgi
Federov originally built his Avtomat in 1906-10 in 7,62x54, but found the cartridge overpowered for his mechanism. He then developed a rimless 6,5 x50 ( sim. To modern .260 Rem) but when WWI blew up, changed tousing 6,5x50 Arisaka, of which Britain was s supplying millions of rounds and rifles. The 6,5 was less powerful than the7,62R, but not an underpowered version ofthe 6,5 Arisaka. Rifles were not produced in any quantity til 1918 ( Revolution) and somemore were produced early 1920s. Almost all went to Spain in Civil War. Some did go to China in 1930s. Doc AV
It is not a bad gun, nor a great one. This is a gun designed and made for the tail end of the samurai class in Japan. The manufacture and metalurgy is first cabin, all this was done by hand, no computers or anything else back then.
Interesting fact for those who own a Nambu pistol but can't find ammo for it. Cases for the .357 SIG can actually be necked down to 8mm and used for Nambu loads.
@@CAMSLAYER13 Cruisers were named after mountain's, so that just goes together. The name probably comes from the mountain/region too and apparently is not so common.
At last, a Nambu video that doesn't send the Recommendations Algorithm into apoplexy and inundate me with renditions of 'the Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round'.
I feel like Nambu's pistols don't get the respect they deserve. Yes, they're weirdly overcomplicated and have some weak features; yes, the ammunition is not very impressive. But this was one of the earliest self-loading service pistols, home-grown in a country that had been industrialized for less than 40 years.
For some reason when I look at nambu's designs that all have a whole bunch of parallel bores nested together the most people would either do inline or stacked, it makes me think of paintball guns made by WDP. Any angel fans look at that and feel nostalgia?
Mushy take up with a light break. On mine you’re mushing it back a bit before it lightly breaks but there’s no real point where you can tell it’s going to break like with a two stage trigger. The break just kind of happens.
I would suggest, (it may have already been noted) that the knurled end of the firing pin resembles a chrysanthemum, from which the Chrysanthemum Throne, upon which the emperor was seated, derived its name. Many Japanese warships had a chrysanthemum image on the bow. Don't know if this was purposeful in this case, perhaps someone knows.
Japanese uses three alphabets (plus Romanji, which is the Roman alphabet), one of those three is kanji, which is the Chinese alphabet. So Chinese marking and Japanese markings are largely the same, all seven characters that I can see could be Chinese AND Japanese, although pronunciation differs heavily when read out loud. There is actually kind of a long list of words that pop up that are completely different depending on the Chinese or Japanese reading. Genji is a notable Japanese dynasty of warlords, also the name of one of the oldest novels on the planet (the Tale of Genji, like 10th century), can also be read Minamoto, as in the shogunate they formed. Shinobi and ninja are also different readings of the same word 忍者, although shinobi has the "no" (の, of in Japanese) character in the middle 忍の者 , which is from one of the other two alphabets. 式 above the 2 means "type" (broadly), 南 over the 6 means south (Nan, but Nan-bu can be pronounced Nambu), 部 is bu, section/division. His surname literally means "South section". 陸 on the other side means land, 式陸 land type, referring to the army, 陸軍 (land army, navy is 海軍, water army), 陸 can also mean six. As Dehuan Xin points out, Nachi (那智, funnily enough, "what?" and "wisdom") is an area, but also a ship, a cruiser, the IJN Nachi, launched in '24, commissioned in '28. Also a company founded in '28, Nachi-Fujikoshi, actually named after the cruiser, which had just been commissioned into the Emperor's service, and that the Emperor used to tour the country and tour the factory. Ni, two is literally two lines (like the Roman II, but turned) 二. 0 for zero actually comes from China, like 8th century, although normally in Japanese 20 would be written 二十 (two ten, ni ju), not two zero. And you thought their guns were over engineered, although I will say that research was a fun exercise for like an hour in quarantine. Anyone interested in Japanese, tangorin.com is a good website for a dictionary.
well considering there were those series of trial guns from the early 1900s that all went up for auction nearly simultaneously, prototypes that went up against the 1911, they may well have come from a collector
General: "what is your profession?"
Craftsman: "I build puzzle boxes?"
General: "You now build pistols!"
Tbh I'd like to see a gun made by the guy who made the Lament Configuration.
Mr. Mojo Risin The Nambu is a bit quirky to field strip but it’s not really the Rube Goldberg device everybody makes it out to be.
That being said I will admit that getting the magazine safety back in the gun was an absolute nightmare for me but as you saw here as long as you don’t touch that, nothing else is really that complicated.
Explains a lot 😄
@@simplymadness8849 ya I can see how it might be considered acceptable since the barrel, locking block and bolt assemlbly comes out as one piece and the recoil spring is self contained
He was later hired by Bill Ruger to help design a 22 pistol.
The unknown marking are "Nachi" and "two zero". Nachi is the name of a region in Japan. Maybe this is a police gun used by Nachi area police?
I'd like to think it served on the IJN heavy cruiser Nachi
I agree. That's more plausible.
Maybe because they later allied with the Nazis lol
@@iatsd The upper line in 二 is supposed to be shorter than the lower line.
iatsd it’s hard to write on that grip anyways though
"it has an adjustable tangent rear sight, it goes out to 500 metres"
now that's an april fool's more than 100 years in the making
500 meters for shooting at battleships and aircraft carriers
At the end of the XIXth century or the beginning of the XXth, some pistols had adjustable tangent rear sight : Mauser C96, Luger P1914 artillery, Browning GP35... With a removable stock, U get a little semi-auto carbine.
@@methodeetrigueur1164 except the papa nambu doesn't have a stock, and even with one, 500m is overly optimistic for anything other than harassing fire
HouseBalley Sure but it was common at this time. That’s why there is a slot at the back of the grip.
@@methodeetrigueur1164
The Papa doesn't have the slot, i know it's a vestige of it's origins, but you are missing the lighthearted humour of my first post
Cautiously watching this because its April fools
My thoughts exactly. Cautiously searched "papa nambu" after this video. Turns out, it's a real thing...
The mommy namblu's disassembly has been lost to history. Legend says a man once successfully disassembled the hellish puzzle box and was cursed for the rest of his days by the demon it released.
The BBC has a story about goats taking over Llandudno in Wales, on account of the lockdown, but because we live in one of the other timelines it's not an April Fool's joke. It's true. Goes are slowly reclaiming Wales. The human age is drawing to an end and goats are the future.
Same, after watching Garand Thumb's video on the MA37 Assault Rifle as it was issued to the UNSC forces. :D It would be awesome if Ian did a video on the Mark II Lancer Assault Rifle.
@@michaelfodor6280 no offense, but I prefer Ian to NOT do aprils fools videos... while he has an awesome sense of humor, this isn't the channel for it. InRangeTv on the other hand...
Papa Nambu is unironically one of the most coolest fatherly nicknames I ever heard.
Sounds like a nickname for a chilled out grandpa from Hawaii or something, I wanna meet that dude.
Better than "Papa Stalin" at least. Though that was more in mockery than in respect of a valued man.
@@mmouse1886 Papa Stalin rejoyed when his son killed himself. He was unironically a bad papa, and a horrible human being.
It reminds me of Papa Franku, who is also Japanese (but is famous everywhere else)
Papa Franku should have gotten one.
Everyone: ”The sights go out to 500 meters.”
Jerry Miculek: ”The sights go out to only 500 meters, so I have to compensate a little to make this 1000m shot.”
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Heyyyoooo let's see what we can do... whoahoho we got it!
@@100GTAGUY, I could hear him, ha ha.
Hello forgotten weapons I'm a new person on ur channel but what I'm seeing I really like what you do keep it up
Welcome to the best gun related content on the internet!
Welcome man !
Welcome.... Ian is brilliant and puts a lot of effort traveling the world to produce the great videos. Lots of timeless information
Welcome! You're in for a treat, there's tons more content for you to binge-watch.
welcome
It's unfortunate Nambus (and Glisentis and Lahtis) have that superficial resemblance to the Luger. People seem to think they're some kind of copy or derivative when they're a whole different and very interesting thing.
Yeah. Like the Ruger Standard was actually a copy of the Nambu, and people thought it was a misspelled Luger.
Bear in mind, in that particular part of the late 19th, beginning 20th century, half of the pistol designs in the world "looked a bit like Luger" (and that was not Luger's idea).
@rwsthedemonking the luger is really well made and pretty functional glisentis and lahtis are also reliable enough and nambus when functioning are really fun to shoot
@rwsthedemonking but none of those guns are completely impractical, some have reliability problems but all guns can that doesnt make it an objectively bad gun, especially when they were pretty terrific guns when they were designed but kept in service too long, case in point nambu
YaoiMastah the Ruger Standard 22 is not a copy of the Nambu in any mechanical way. The overall shape & silhouette don't make it a copy.
They actually very well could've been. The Japanese took tours of European gun manufacturers before they made the nambu
German weapon engineer: nobody can make a gun as complicated as I can
Japanese weapon engineer: hold my sake
0:48 Hi Ian the word on the top of the grip is 那智[Nachi]. Is this the original owner's name or this Nambu is from IJN heavy cruisers Nachi?? word at the bottom I think is number [二]2 and a 0
That was quick :)
I'd find it odd to see a naming or something similar to a spesific ship the pistol was sent to.
Though it isn't unlike in idea to a spesific serial number to a spesific group of significant party members.
I think that's the ship's name, I haven't heard of any Japanese called Nachi
@@easongoldman1011 There is one Nozawa Nachi, an actor
As a Japanese, I agree that it looks like '那智' vaguely. 那智 is very unusual as a personal name. (According to my quick research, there are only about 190 people whose surname is 那智) I think it is very plausible that this example is #20 pistol of IJN Nachi.
The sights go out to 500 meters.
The sights go out to 500 meters.
IJA is well known for their optimism.
It's to make bullets hit harder at 50m, rather than to make them lethal at 500m. You people are embarrassing sometimes. This is basic knowledge.
The Japanese have some funny ideas about gun design. Like putting bayonet lugs on HMGs.
@@migkillerphantom And undying hatred of the IJN.
As we all know, the sights are what control's the ammo's footpounds, after all!
Something something folded a million times.
Engineer part of me feels sad that Nambu couldn't reach his full potential as a designer in Imperial Japan for many reasons.
But another part of me is relieved that he didn't.
I'm a simple man, when I see Ian-San uploads something about Japanese weapons I watch immediately.
NS PU watashi mo
The Third Pin should be sensei btw
@@toki89666 I believe Ian-san would work for someone speaking in a more familiar way. Certainly for strangers, McCollum-San would be appropriate. Or, since we learn so much from Ian, McCollum-sensei, might be considered.
Gorgeous! That grip looks super-ergonomic
I see a word "那智" right there, that must be IJN heavy cruiser "Nachi". I believe it assures the Papa nambu was owned by Navy despite of having carving "陸式(army type)".
EDIT: I did a quick research on why there is "陸式(army type)" carvings on guns that navy had. It seems like IJN had "Navy Land Forces" division on their own, because after seizing shores they had to maintain or expand their front line until their backup troops with heavy firearms arrive. In those days, Japanese naval forces were only responsible for ship combats but not taking over lands. Thus, the "Navy Land Forces" were categorized as hybrid troops of navy and army, so that's why the gun has army type carvings.
This probably means only chosen troops on the heavy cruiser "Nachi" were eligible for owning the guns, so I can't stop feeling something special about the Papa nambu with "那智" writing (ツ)
I'm a Japanese national. I think what you wrote must be true. Thank you.
@@shintarotakahashi5731 u know what, I'm japanese too :)
那智って重巡の那智？海軍の特別陸戦隊兵のものかもしれませんな
@@primastanislaus9184 恐らくはおっしゃるとおり大日本帝国海軍の重巡那智です。実際、海軍陸戦隊に採用された経歴があるようなので「陸式」と書いてあり、イアンさんも「陸式と書いてあるのに海軍で使われていたらしい、不思議な銃」とコメントされてますね
@@SiriusArc7 でも大日本帝国海軍の中には小銃を使う海軍兵って特別陸戦隊しかないでしょ？艦内の小銃だと艦が沈んだときにはそのまま沈むんじゃないの？
Hi Ian, Nachi could be the last name of Japanese, the part of Mie prefecture, and the name of ww2 battle ship. I believe Japanese navy and army did separate r&d and Nambu was made for army. The marking is 20 as serial number just like normal Japanese do in order to make sure nothing is missing somewhere. So I guess its one of Nachi region's military base pistol inventory.
A good video, characteristic of your channel, including the insightful and informative content of your commentaries. (Learned some significant information about Japanese Navy's process of naming ships, among other things.) Keep on the high road.
i've always had a vague interest in guns but not known where to start. your artillery luger video was suggested to me recently and now i'm hooked. super informative and super interesting vids!
I see where Bill Ruger got the idea for the takedown procedure with his .22 pistol.
Greg Camp ruger basically stole the design of the nambu
Very interesting Firearm !!!!!!! Thanks for showing the Papa Nambu ,Ian !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like a complicated Japanese luger, pretty neat.
Actually closer to a C96 mechanically, but it does look really pretty
Jamez It has no relation to the Luger outside of a superficial resemblance. People need to drop this “Nambu is a Japanese Luger” Fuddlore.
@@simplymadness8849 Yeah it has the same energy as "the Type 99 LMG is a Japanese Bren"
@@nafisbernafas9073 but it technically is in that case, The Japanese switched from 6.5 to 7.7 after looking at various cartridges (though idiotically changing mid-war) and the Type 99 is an illegal copy of the vz. 26 LMG that the BREN was legally designed off of.
@@mmouse1886 Didn't know the bren was taking from the ZB 26. Cool! Although I believe the operation of the Type 99 and the BREN differed slightly
Thanks for this interesting and informative video. This is a beautifully made pistol, but totally impractical because of its complexity. I love the intricate design and impressive machining and I would like to own one. This is as close as I will ever get.
I remember reading that Ruger used the Nambu as an inspiration for the Mark 1 pistol.
When it comes to these guns that require complex disassembly, I always think of Dan Akroyd in the SNL sketch Bass-O-Matic. “Yes, it’s just that simple!!”
Ah, another "I will not dissasemble this crap on the field" Type of handgun. lovely headache !
Thank you , Ian .
3:52 Watch the Grandpa Nambu grip safety pop out
I was looking forward to an April 1st video. I still enjoyed this one
Thanks Ian for another great start to my day.
Daddy nambu, won't be suprised if there is a hentai about it
No cap
Bruh
Hell yeah
kyaaahhh kimochi dayo daddy nambu goshojinsama
💀now you got my attention
what a cool stuff :) I like the grip angle and generally it looks like a comfortable gun to hold :) just like Papa Luger :)
This was the one channel I was hoping to get an April fools video from. Last year’s was so good
I used to think these looked silly, but now I think they're very cool. I had no idea they have a short recoil system, so the thin pencil barrel actually serves a purpose. Too bad they weren't chambered for a more powerful cartridge.
Those Chinese Character (Japanese do use some Chinese characters in their language, called Kanji 漢字) 陸式 roughly translate into "Ground Type". But it means it was adopted by IJN. As 陸式 is short for IJN Marine Corps Type (海軍陸戦隊). IJNMC acquired about 10000 pieces in 1924. Citation: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%97%E9%83%A8%E5%A4%A7%E5%9E%8B%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E6%8B%B3%E9%8A%83
Cool, so the Nachi probably does refer to the cruiser then.
Ive got a nambu my grandfather brought back from the Philippines.. type 14 iirc. I did some research on it a few years ago and its a super low serial number with matching everything
Tell us more what was the low #
FG 42 Bob unfortunately is currently in another state but it was only three digits.. 242 or something similar. My research back then said it was from the second month of the first year of production. Its in decent shape for what it is and had matching numbers on the mag and one or two other places on the gun. Don’t remember if it had the imperial seal mark or not. I also have a type 99 rifle from him and one of them did, i wanna say the rifle.
I inherited a bunch of guns from him.. there’s a korean war era m1 garrand, a civil war springfield, a nice colt walker reproduction, a set of jefferson pistols( also reproduction), another 1700s flintlock and a high standard r107 22 revolver. They were all stored at my moms house in new Jersey while i went to school.. i moved to Colorado shortly after i finished. Never got around to getting them out here. Last time i handled them was several years ago. They Ain’t going anywhere.. they’d be cool to have but realistically the only ones id fire are the m1 and .22 and i have newer comparable guns here that don’t have the sentimental value so I’m cool with them being stored.
@@jseden Thank you for telling me about your gun. You need to buy the Nambu book by Jim Brown It isn't cheap but your gun is worth the knowlege. I had a Nagoya made pistol #116 Dated 2.1 # 115 is the lowest #in the Showa era.#112 is the highest # in the Tasho era. dated ? 15.6 Date 2.2 has an example #259. Early Guns like yours are very interesting and worth a lot more than later produced guns let several major collectors see your gun and get valuations from them (they ALL will want to buy it). The low # Kokura guns started at #0 very valuable also. Enjoy your great gun!
Sorry the book you need is .
Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945: A Revised an (Hardcover)
by Harry L Derby (Author) . It will cost you about $80.00 Your Grandfather paid a lot for it by going to War we all would like to thank him for his service. Bob Benson
FG 42 Bob thanks for the tip! I’ll look into it when things settle down and my financial situation has stabilized.
A few years ago I met a guy with nambu 8mm ammo at a gun show and brought up my gun.. he insisted the serial number absolutely couldn’t be that low and that i was wrong about it but I was skeptical. We had everything appraised when he died as he was a big antique collector but i don’t necessarily trust it.. for instance, they called the m1 a carbine.. I have zero intention to sell anyway. They’re family heirlooms as far as I’m concerned. The only reason i ended up with them was because my mother and uncle (his children) arent into guns. My uncle only wanted the savage .22 for pest control.. he also insisted the japanese saber/katana (not sure of the proper designation) was his. That was also brought back from the war, along with a kris.
Above all, thanks. My grandfather was a great guy. He enlisted young, might have lied about his age and retired a well decorated colonel. During the war, he commanded a unit of m7 armored personnel carriers and apparently the army was very impressed with his technique of bouncing shells to hit targets out of direct line of fire. He passed about 10 years ago shortly before his 92nd birthday and was put to rest at arlington per his wishes. Definitely a badass. Started teaching me to shoot when i was 9 or 10.
If I were to by a gun at, the fact that it was a gun you covered in a video would make it worth more to me. I mean a gun that comes with an instructional video with an explanation of the history is pretty cool. Not to mention the fact that it’s already shown off, saving me the time.
Nambu pistols are actually very pretty guns.
@3:50 i had to rewatch it.. the grip safety moved.. no it was not your imagination lol
I would love to see a modern Nambu replica,they have a very pleasing design to me.
That's basically the Ruger Mk I-IV, except they reworked some of the weaker features (and made the disassembly even worse, until the Mk IV). Bill Ruger's original starting point was a Baby Nambu he'd picked up somewhere.
@@ZGryphon Exactly what I was going to post. This is what got us the Ruger Mk 1, and we're very glad it did.
@@ZGryphon And the Browning pistol that is a rather good ripoff. .22 target pistols. Also, eventually the NES Duck Hunt gun.
In this pistol design, we see where transformers came from.
That thing looks like it has a super clean trigger break. I'd love to fire one.
There was me thinking a Luger is overly complex.
Atleast you wouldn't have to fight the crowds to get to the 8mm Nambu ammo
I like this... thing. But then again, I like every gun that doesn't quite work right...
Years ago, I noticed the similarity of the Nambu lock block to that of the Federov Avtomat 1916.
Given that Grandpa NambusMay havebeen used in the 1904-5 Russo- Japanese war, What is the likely-hood that Federov based
his Recoil lock on Nambu's design???
DocAV
When you mentioned about Grandpa Nambu used in Russo- Japanese war.There is one surviving document that show that 300 round of 8mm Nambu sent to 3rd Artillery Brigade of IJA between 1904/11/16 - 1904/11/30 link: www.jacar.archives.go.jp/aj/meta/MetSearch.cgi
Didn't the fedorov also used an underpowered japanese ammunition?
Federov originally built his Avtomat in 1906-10 in 7,62x54, but found the cartridge overpowered for his mechanism. He then developed a rimless 6,5 x50 ( sim. To modern .260 Rem) but when WWI blew up, changed tousing 6,5x50 Arisaka, of which Britain was s supplying millions of rounds and rifles.
The 6,5 was less powerful than the7,62R, but not an underpowered version ofthe 6,5 Arisaka.
Rifles were not produced in any quantity til 1918 ( Revolution) and somemore were produced early 1920s.
Almost all went to Spain in Civil War.
Some did go to China in 1930s.
Doc AV
It is not a bad gun, nor a great one. This is a gun designed and made for the tail end of the samurai class in Japan. The manufacture and metalurgy is first cabin, all this was done by hand, no computers or anything else back then.
The profile and slide design remind me of my Ruger 22
That editing at 3:51 is wow.
Always magical sir. Cheers on the upload. godbless ;)
Interesting fact for those who own a Nambu pistol but can't find ammo for it. Cases for the .357 SIG can actually be necked down to 8mm and used for Nambu loads.
3:29 那智 (nachi)
It's a Japanese name, a Japanese cruiser had the same name. Don't know if they are correlated.
There's also a mountain called Nachi
@@CAMSLAYER13 Cruisers were named after mountain's, so that just goes together. The name probably comes from the mountain/region too and apparently is not so common.
Thanks Ian, stay safe!
The roots of its creator are very clear in the construction of this gun. When you disassemble it, it’s almost like your solving a puzzle!
My grandpa brought one of these over when he was a sailor in WW2. He was a big collector. R.I.P🙏❤️
That arcane pistol disassembly is complicated enough that I'm almost tempted to make a religious ritual out of it.
So Type 14? Ahh noo. At least my Nambu is a type 14. Got the Souvenir papers from WW2 too from my grandfather. Cool guns.
The nambu looks like a German luger
I think that type 14 has a nickname but it can't be repeated in a polite company.
Where's the video on the MA37
At last, a Nambu video that doesn't send the Recommendations Algorithm into apoplexy and inundate me with renditions of 'the Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round'.
By emperors crace last time i was this early tangent sights on pistols where a thing, damn i miss those times...
Thank god for John Browning and his design that has given us many offshoots of easy to strip weapons
I remember this gun from the show Sons of Guns on the Discovery channel. I'm still amazed how quickly that guy's (Will Hayden) life unraveled.
2008Trojan MBA he deserved every bit of his life getting messed up considering what he's done to children.
So many people think this is a Luger from far away and it's hilarious
Baby Nambu: Mum Mum!!! Papa, wheres Mama?
Papa Nambu: Who???
Mama in Japanese means
I was kind of Hoping for a breakdown of the MA37, maybe next year!
Garand Thumb got my hopes up. Surplus market is still fresh though, hopefully he snags one on the cheap before they're all gone
*”D O I L O O K L I K E A R E A L B O Y , P A P A?”*
Happy upload anniversary
It would really make the experience different if you shot in 4K. Close up shots would be just that more detailed!
I feel like Nambu's pistols don't get the respect they deserve. Yes, they're weirdly overcomplicated and have some weak features; yes, the ammunition is not very impressive. But this was one of the earliest self-loading service pistols, home-grown in a country that had been industrialized for less than 40 years.
500 yards, thats a long shot for a pistol.
Yeah, good luck hitting anything at that range, especially considering pistols were usually fired one-handed at the time.
Yeah, but Browning and C96s also had stupid ranging on them. It was a thing for pistols.
For some reason when I look at nambu's designs that all have a whole bunch of parallel bores nested together the most people would either do inline or stacked, it makes me think of paintball guns made by WDP. Any angel fans look at that and feel nostalgia?
I could've sworn this was gonna be that MA-37 video Garand Thumb mentioned, daww schucks. Papa Nambu will do for now
Didn't Dean Martin sing about these? Papa loves Nambu...
"I love it when you call me Big Papa... Nambu" - Kijiro Nambu, probably.
Just got one of these on a trade. An excellent piece of history.
How is the trigger feeling for those guns? Is it as mushy as many Bullpups? Or is it a good trigger, even tho the design is so unusual?
Mushy take up with a light break. On mine you’re mushing it back a bit before it lightly breaks but there’s no real point where you can tell it’s going to break like with a two stage trigger. The break just kind of happens.
I would suggest, (it may have already been noted) that the knurled end of the firing pin resembles a chrysanthemum, from which the Chrysanthemum Throne, upon which the emperor was seated, derived its name. Many Japanese warships had a chrysanthemum image on the bow. Don't know if this was purposeful in this case, perhaps someone knows.
Wait wait, why does it look like a plinking handgun, like a Ruger Mark II?
Because Bill Ruger bought two Nambus off a marine and reproduced them in his garage. Then Sturm financed him to do it more.
Next year on April 1st, Ian should do a tear down of a water pistol.
Whoever designed that rear sight does seem to be a rather optimistic fella...
But where is the bayonet lug?
No need. Comes with katana.
Japanese uses three alphabets (plus Romanji, which is the Roman alphabet), one of those three is kanji, which is the Chinese alphabet. So Chinese marking and Japanese markings are largely the same, all seven characters that I can see could be Chinese AND Japanese, although pronunciation differs heavily when read out loud. There is actually kind of a long list of words that pop up that are completely different depending on the Chinese or Japanese reading. Genji is a notable Japanese dynasty of warlords, also the name of one of the oldest novels on the planet (the Tale of Genji, like 10th century), can also be read Minamoto, as in the shogunate they formed. Shinobi and ninja are also different readings of the same word 忍者, although shinobi has the "no" (の, of in Japanese) character in the middle 忍の者 , which is from one of the other two alphabets. 式 above the 2 means "type" (broadly), 南 over the 6 means south (Nan, but Nan-bu can be pronounced Nambu), 部 is bu, section/division. His surname literally means "South section". 陸 on the other side means land, 式陸 land type, referring to the army, 陸軍 (land army, navy is 海軍, water army), 陸 can also mean six. As Dehuan Xin points out, Nachi (那智, funnily enough, "what?" and "wisdom") is an area, but also a ship, a cruiser, the IJN Nachi, launched in '24, commissioned in '28. Also a company founded in '28, Nachi-Fujikoshi, actually named after the cruiser, which had just been commissioned into the Emperor's service, and that the Emperor used to tour the country and tour the factory. Ni, two is literally two lines (like the Roman II, but turned) 二. 0 for zero actually comes from China, like 8th century, although normally in Japanese 20 would be written 二十 (two ten, ni ju), not two zero. And you thought their guns were over engineered, although I will say that research was a fun exercise for like an hour in quarantine. Anyone interested in Japanese, tangorin.com is a good website for a dictionary.
Pistol sights for 500 meters, now that's optimism.
If Ian ever get to shoot this, he needs to wear those Japanese WW2 hats with a rag on the behind.
Guns N' Games He has one that he used when he shot the type 94.
I've always liked that style of cap. Seems really practical for hot, sunny environments.
6:07 "Then..." - Christopher Walken, apparently.
I don't know how, but if there's a subject where Ian could make a video with the Lockpickinglawyer, we would be in for a treat.
I’m quite upset that you’re not taking apart the MA37 from @GarandThumb right now. I was hoping for you two to team up this April Fools.
Don't forget to include it in your next Kata!
I just finished Neuromancer again, and the Nambu is mentioned a few times, just thought that was interesting. I think I'd take a needler though.
“Sights go out to 500 meters”
What are you gonna hit a 500 meters with a pistol?
Enemies of the Emperor. Obviously.
@@ZGryphon Yes we must kill the dirt in the distance that dared to exist without the Emperor's permission.
More than a C96 with 1000m sights at 1000m. Or probably about the same, the dirt.
Ian: they're extremely rare today
also ian: there's two in the upcoming auction
well considering there were those series of trial guns from the early 1900s that all went up for auction nearly simultaneously, prototypes that went up against the 1911, they may well have come from a collector
Another excellent Japanese firearm with novel ideas.
when you think that it is april1st so you think Ian is joking
but it is true
Only half listened to the whole video because a minute in I was like "WTF does it have an adjustable sight?"
Interesting that the Nambu pistols use the same naming system as the hamburgers at A & W.
Firing pin tripping mechanism not entirely unlike a P7. I wonder if H&K was inspired by it.
Интересная конструкция, однако!
Я был уверен, что японцы только чужие стволы копировали, а они хитроумно свое изобретали!
'Papa Nambu' sounds like a hip hop artist.