Thread: 6.5CM craze

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Damn. Now 6.5CM is a machine gun round, and we'll never hear the end of it!

Here is/was one - a 6.5mm Japanese Type 99 LMG.



Beautifully worked guns, from the spiral barrel air cooling fin to the wooden carrying handle. A controllable 5-600 rpm with 9kg gun weight, 30rd banana magazines.

Notice the very practical tall bipod legs, allowing for shooting over cover as well as in tall undergrowth.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Here is/was one - a 6.5mm Japanese Type 99 LMG.

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Beautifully worked guns, from the spiral barrel air cooling fin to the wooden carrying handle. A controllable 5-600 rpm with 9kg gun weight, 30rd banana magazines.

Notice the very practical tall bipod legs, allowing for shooting over cover as well as in tall undergrowth.

A Nambu, the Czech slash BRNO origins are obvious. My dad got given one in Suva, a deactivated bring-back, by some US Marines in the mid 40’s. I SO wished he’d managed to bring it here when I was a youngster.

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

A Nambu, the Czech slash BRNO origins are obvious. My dad got given one in Suva, a deactivated bring-back, by some US Marines in the mid 40’s. I SO wished he’d managed to bring it here when I was a youngster.

I hear your need and I feel your pain...

That Col. Nambu was a genius. Redesigned the Arisaka rifle in the firsf decade of the 1900s, made the bolt entirely strippable with no tools but your hands, having also reduced it to only 5 components. Strenghtened the locking lugs without increasing weight by going for width rather than height and ended up making the strongest infantry bolt action of ww1+2. Beautiful and practical palm safety for when the brown stuff hits the fan and soldiers' fine motor control gets iffy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijir%C5%8D_Nambu


The late Robbie Tiffen showed me his Nambu MG like the one pictured at a visit to Gunworks. A real treasure, and we had a yarn about Japanese craftsmanship. If you had to die for the Emperor you had to be behind a handsome firearm.