While we were at the SAR West show this year, we had the chance to chat with Teri, who runs NambuWorld.com. Teri is a Canadian collector who took a longtime interest in Japan and built a very impressive collection of Japanese firearms and militaria, and her web site is a great source of information on Japanese pistols in particular.
Bolt Action Rifles
Type 46 Siamese Mauser
Siam, now known as Thailand, was one of the few independent south Asian nations around the turn of the 20th century. Looking to modernize its military to protect against colonial imposition, is decided in 1903 […]
Accessories
Japanese Aerial Gunnery Camera
I got an email recently from a producer of a TV program who is looking for a vintage photo of a Japanese aerial gunnery training camera – specifically a Type 89 Rokuoh-Sha: He wants something […]
Revolver
Japanese Type 26 Revolver (Video)
They Type 26 was an indigenous Japanese revolver introduced in 1893 (26th year of the Meiji era) to replace the Smith & Wesson No. 3 in Japanese military service. In many ways the Type 26 […]
Ian, thanks for the video. Teri is a realy unique woman !
I was inspired before, but I’m twice as inspired now! Gotta get collecting!
I was there during the making of the video, just finished watching it here at home in San Antonio, and it is a spledid production. Thank you!
Thanks Teri for surviving very different and less known Japanese Firearm Approaches.
In fact, they had done some novel firsts even before Western Techonologie. Nambu 94
for instance, was the first pistol having a swinging lock piece connected with a
barrel nested within the slide, as contrast with the common belief that was belonged
to Walther P 38.
Thank you for the report.
Teri is a fabulous resource for those of us who have interest in Japanese weapons and WWII military culture.
She also is a fine shot with full automatic weapons.
I’s also add that she’s a marvel of cooperation, when you need some resources. I remember when I was writing an article about Nambu pistols – I had a 14-Shiki pistol to take apart and photo, but I was short on Granpa, Papa and Baby Nambus. It took me just one e-mail to Teri, and all my troubles were forgotten – which took her to photograph her own pistols and get me the s/n 1 Granpa w/ holster-stock photos directly from Japan. And all that within 72 hrs of one e-mail from the half world apart, from a guy she never ever heard of! Thanks again, Teri, you’re a good friend.
Hi Teri:
I wish to reload my Type 93 revolver. What can you give me for loading data and what size RCBS shell holder should I use?