What exactly went wrong with the Nambu 94?
Personally, I’m pretty sure it’s no worse than any other wartime designs.
Nambu 94 circlejerk
Andrew Torres
Michael Thomas
The locking system is breddy gud. Most people say that it's one of the smoothest-shooting pistols. The two problems are: an exposed sear that allows you to fire it by applying pressure, and a six-round capacity magazine.
Parker Perry
8mm seems a bit anemic but I don't really know much about them.
Nathaniel Parker
Size doesn’t matter though. I’m sure your girlfriend has told you that
James Fisher
It's more or less .380 tier. The smaller bullet does potentially allow better penetration. The locking system could handle higher pressures than 8 Nambu is loaded to.
Jack Reed
Sure, but the exposed sear was a feature not a bug. Wasn’t it intended for false surrenders so they could get one more kill like elite weaboo knights?
Dominic Gutierrez
Tap the side and it fires.
Aaron Thomas
I mean it looks like the problems with it could be solved with just a slightly bigger magazine, maybe add more mass to it as well?
Adrian Rogers
Nah, that's urban legend. It was really just a cost-cutting measure. It was a smaller pistol than the Type 14 Nambu. This was intended for tankers, pilots, etc. The Japanese, unlike the Americans, didn't really consider the pistol as an important weapon, aside from execution, status symbol, and last resort/suicide. This wasn't designed to be carried with a loaded chamber. Imperial Japan was really behind the curve.
Jordan Hill
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Jaxson Stewart
And I might add that this was accepted for service in 1935, BEFORE the China War even began. They were accepting junk long before they were in any sort of desperate situation.
Daniel Thompson
Yeah nah. What's more likely? False surrenders or a loaded pistol being holstered and getting bumped on the side?
Bentley Jenkins
Well I’m not sure they made a single good weapon anyway, I mean even the arisaka was way too long.
But surely an exposed sear has to come in handy somehow?
Aiden Walker
So not just a shitty wartime design?
Jesus Christ what were those rice chimps doing
Justin Williams
Not really. I don't think there are any real stories of Japs using the sear like that.
Remember: This is Imperial Japan, the most Autistic nation to ever exist. These are the people who slapped a bayonet on anything. These are the people who had a hard-on for battleships long after all evidence showed them to be relics. These are the people who didn't dare fall back, evaluate their losses, and learn from it, no no, they had to fight to the death rather than have experienced troops survive long enough to pass on their wisdom.
Thomas Wilson
But.. but.. imperial glory... what do you mean the most autistic nation :0
To be fair, their Naval game was strong, and gave the Americans hell for quite a while.
Samuel Morales
Just curious then, what would be a good alternative caliber?
Bummer replacement magazines are crazy expensive
Luis Campbell
Reading the fucking bullshit hagakure, charging machine guns with swords, and putting aircraft sights on bolt action rifles.
Julian Martinez
Hahhahahaha just get a 1911 retard
Aaron Roberts
Their navy was also a joke: impractical hyper-specific submarine designs, sub commanders that wouldn't attack supply convoys ("It's more glorious to attack warships desu!"), useless battleships, extremely timid commanders who wouldn't risk their fleets because nobody wants to be the guy who loses a bunch of ships, shitty damage control, etc.
They did donate a bunch of artificial reefs for conservation.
8mm Nambu is fine, just up the powder load. I will note that the base diameter is roughly 10mm.
Jaxson Sanchez
Agh there’s no excuse for the imperial Japanese..
I guess I have to burn the Hagakure...
Dylan Gutierrez
Nah, that's fine for light reading. Just realize that the only commander with a brain was Yamamoto.
Sebastian Brown
Superior type 14 incoming
Btw, for any type 14 owners who want to shoot em. Make sure you get ammo loaded to at least 100 grains. Anything less than that and you will see endless malfunctions. Believe it or not, with a good mag (no dented feed lips and a strong spring) and with decent ammo these things will function like sewing machines. Very fun to shoot
Brody Brown
Superior, but still a questionable design. Complicated disassembly, and the sear on the firing pin was prone to breaking.
Cooper Butler
They're ugly as fuck, which is rare for something Nambu made. That's beside the point though.
They are a bit large and awkward to hold with the high bore axis. Japanese pilots liked them because of the flatter side profile. 8mm is a kind of weak cartridge (roughly as powerful as .380 ACP) but that was standard for the Japanese so they wouldn't think it was inherently weak.
The whole thing about firing while pressing the sear bar is true but it will not happen if the safety is engaged, so follow all the normal gun safety rules and you're fine. The stories of Japanese officers "surrendering" with them and then shooting the Americans are mostly false because no one would be holding a weapon in such an obvious way when trying to give up.
Hunter Mitchell
It’s not perfect. But it doesn’t deserve the infamy it’s gained. Mine is 86 years old, and it’s accuracy is on par with my 92fs. Not to mention once I figured out the ammo situation, it actually proved to be reliable on the range
Logan Wood
87* forgot its 2019 now...
Brody Cruz
Where you getting ammo? Buffalo Arms?
Isaac Ramirez
Very nice. I would like to have one someday but I'm in NY (not city) so it would mean pistol permits and all that and then finding/reloading 8x22mm.
Japanese guns/equipment are very interesting. Too bad a lot of people seem to write anything Japanese off as automatically inferior/suicidal. Even discussing things like WW2 in the Pacific has a lot of not considering Japan's strengths at all.
Cameron Parker
I’ve shot some Buffalo Arms stuff before and it worked well. They hit that sweet spot with the 100 grains
Easton Murphy
Makes sense. I just looked up the original load and it was 102gr at 960fps.
Colton Fisher
Type 14s are easy to hold and the sights are great.
Its a shame magazines are expensive as fuck
Christian Sanchez
Aiden Ramirez
> useless battleships
There's a caveat to that.
The United States Congress was really dumb, and the USN knew it. If the navy had gone to congress and asked for money to put a "computer" and "radar" on everything larger than a destroyer escort, congress would have said no.
So instead they asked congress for a "fire control system" and didn't give any specifics as to what that would mean. Congress funded it for pretty much the entire surface fleet, meaning even our destroyers would have better computers than any other country had on their best battleships.
Ryan Anderson
>Make sure you get ammo loaded to at least 100 grains
You mean, use ammo with bullets weighing at least 100 grains, right?
Kayden Anderson
No no, 100 grains of fast burning powder. Hard pack that bitch in. The pistol enjoys high pressure loads, 100 grains is considered the industry standard for high pressure bullets.
Blake Mitchell
That’s fud lore
Ryan Davis
>These are the people who had a hard-on for battleships long after all evidence showed them to be relics.
wat. They were the people who canceled all their battleships and switched to carriers. They just didn't have the industrial capacity to produce enough after that switch. If anything it was the US that was sticking with battleships too long. It's just that the US didn't have to be choosy, and could produce sufficient amounts of everything simultaneously. Also, their troops were stuck on islands with no significant navy or airforce. They had no chance of passing on their wisdom anyway.
David Powell
It was really good for being designed in 1902.