Thread: 6.5CM craze

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.