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
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.”
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...
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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!!”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
Legit question. I've always seen nambus perform poorly on any video I've seen. Why is this? Does it have to do with their age, their manufacturing quality, or or they just a bad design?
Bad repro ammo.Original 8mm Nambu is 102 gr of bullet and travel about 1090~1100 ft/s,however the reloader in the US downgrade the ammo to 82~85 gr of bullet and travel about 800~900 ft/s and causes the Nambu cannot cycle properly because the power wasn't enough to cycle the pistol.Also if you wan to see the Papa Nambu shooting,please check out C&Rsenal channel about Papa Nambu ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LnpXWXjxhUI.html the pistol run flawlessly.
I forget to tell you the 1090~1100 ft/s is the post 1929 load.The pre 1929 Velocity is 980 fps but the bullet weight is same.If you wanna load you own 8mm Nambu,please check out this post www.tapatalk.com/groups/collectorguns35625/loading-the-8mm-nambu-cartridge-to-post-1929-stand-t2326.html
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.
and I like to think Ian doesn't have to read up or be instructed on all the bizarre disassembly methods for obscure weapons... he just knows it innately via gun nerd powers.
Firing pins are hardened a lot to reliably dent primers over a long lifespan. Because of this, earlier metallurgy, & sometimes geometry & other things like primer size intended for, they can be brittle, & without a soft primer to absorb the energy of the hammer or striker, all the force transferred instantly by firing pin overtravel measure & ends up as vibrations which can cause the brittle hardened pin to fragment. Tl;dr without a primer the force has no where to go besides vibrations.
I wholly expected an April Fools edition of FW. тне мissing prototype Nana Nambu video? Oh wait! An april fool's day special on the new Ian McCullom cocktail the Anisette Ariska - sake, grenadine, a splash of whiskey over rice ... I mean ice
