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.
Flamethrower
Japanese Type 100 Flamethrower
The Japanese Type 93 and its slightly-improved sister the Type 100 were the standard flame weapons of the Imperial Japanese Army for its fighting in China and the Pacific. They are a smaller and handier […]
Bayonet
Japanese Last-Ditch Pole Spear Bayonet
Japanese bayonets followed the same trend of simplification as Arisaka rifles towards the end of World War Two, culminating in what is today called the “pole bayonet”. Abandoning even the fittings to mount to a […]
Semiauto pistol
Detailed Photos: Hamada Pistols (7.65mm and 8mm)
The Hamada pistols were two of the few examples of Japanese military arms made by private companies rather than government arsenals. Hamada ran a shop making sporting arms before the war (and after), and converted […]
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?