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.
Light MGs
Type 11 LMG w/ Tripod
Reader Blake sent me a couple very interesting photos recently, and they show a pretty unusual item – a Nambu Type 11 tripod. Blake is an American living with his Japanese wife in Japan, and […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Japanese Type 30 “Hook Safety” Arisaka at RIA
Most people are familiar with the Type 38 Arisaka, which was one of the two very distinctive Japanese rifles of World War II (along with the Type 99). The Type 38 was an outstanding rifle […]
Light MGs
RIA: Nambu Type 96 & Type 99 LMGs
The Type 96 and Type 99 Nambu light machine guns were arguably the best LMGs used by any nation during WWII – they were light, handy, accurate, durable, and reliable. Designed by Kijiro Nambu to […]
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?