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10-27-2006 06:41 AM
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What a great looking Nambu! Thanks for sharing it! Do you shoot it ever?
Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь. Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз!
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I have shot a Nambu, but not that one. They are very pleasent to shoot with not a lot of recoil. The trigger is real soft with a longer than usual pull. They are said to be very accurate. It is said that the Japanese lapped the bores so well that you don't see corroded bores. I don't know if that is really true, but I have never seen one. riceone.
Last edited by riceone; 10-27-2006 at 11:52 AM.
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My first handgun was a Type 14 Nambu. It had two numbers on it; 16.10 and 25. So, of course, it was registered as a Model 1925, serial 1610.
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16,10 would have been October 1941. According to Honneycutts book the lowest serial number observed in the 16.10 is 99436 and the highest serial number for a 16.9 is 99386. Do you recall what the numbers were up on the slide. riceone
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Navy Specials are hard to come by, I just got one this year and I have only seen one or two more. I paid $600 for it and thought that was a bargain. That number 25 on the pistol beats me, but one thing I know is anything can be possible on a Japanese firearm. riceone.
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The barrel on my Special Navy appears to have been salvaged from a Type 99 short rifle - it is serial numbered around the breech collar with a different number than is on the left side of the rifle's receiver. It also has the chromed bore. The front sight unit is a one piece iron casting. In the barrel inlet are the penciled characters for Nakamura who I assume was the assembler. The way these are made is very interesting; essentially all the parts of a very late Type 99 short rifle are there, but made out of cast iron. Some of the screws have off centre slots, as if they were cut with a hacksaw. I wonder if there was a special bayonet made for these rifles, using the same sort of manufacture.
I suspect that these rifles are uncommon for two reasons: limited production; and, any surviving rifles were probably discarded unless retained as a curiosity because of their crudeness.
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