The Type 94 Nambu is a much-maligned pistol used by the Japanese military from 1935-1945. It’s actually a better gun than people give it credit for, but we will address that in a later video. For now, enjoy some high-speed footage of it firing:
Vintage photo
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Neat footage of an interesting pistol. A gun so homely it’s beautiful.I’ve never fired mine. When I searched for ammo the few sources that listed it were out of stock. Can you suggest a source?
Old Western Scrounger has 8mm Nambu (new) for $62.95 per box of 50. I shoot it in my Papa and Type 14. Yet to try the Type 94.
“Can you suggest a source?”
BuffaloArms has 8mm Nambu cartridges with 85-grain bullet: http://www.buffaloarms.com/8MM_Nambu_Ammunition_it-158148.aspx?TERM=nambu
Sorry, I don’t notice at first glance that: Temporarily Unavailable, Back-Orders OK.
Neither place has any in stock. That’s what I found the last time I wandered off on the tangent of looking for it. Poor timing I suppose. Will probably eventually spring for dies and brass unless sanity prevails. Unlikely but hey, it could happen.
Still better than a Kel-Tec.
First production pistol with a swinging lock block in a barrel within the slide construction. Others like Mauser C96, Bergman, Earlier Nambus contain same lock;
Breechblock within the barrel extention layout. This pistol is also first production
pistol with a return spring coiled around a reciprocally moving short recoiling barrel.
Vertically sliding locking block? Does it have any similarities to the Arsenal Strike One pistol?
Better described as “Swinging” or “Hinged” rather than
“Sliding” since locking block makes a rotatiional movement instead of linear as being present in Strike One.
Sorry for the wrong description. Locking Block makes an
vertical sliding movement but not guided by a cam pin inside an oval hole as being on Strike one, but by a camming path cut on the receiver. In fact, similarity is obvious and surprising. Both pistol get locked at sides and unlocked by a central unit through a vertical sliding movement. Hinged or swinging type is present for P38.