It's important to note that when Kijiro Nambu was born, Japan was still using matchlocks. Imagine if John Browning was a pilgrim aboard the Mayflower and got sent forward in time to the late 19th century to understand the sheer disparity in institutional knowledge here when he started working on guns.

I'm not a patron, but I would like to thank the people who have paid actual money and them who loan guns to this channel.

That Type 1 might be your best line drawing of the series, Othais.

The marking on the right side of the gun is a tribute to John Bonham of Led Zeppelin after seeing his 2 hour drum solo at the 1901 concert in Tokyo.

>the early model is better than the mass production standard version Oh god it's like a mecha anime

If i recall I remember reading the Japanese the designer was actually afraid of the weapon malfunctioning, so he built it much stronger than necessary, this isn't uncommon either, as this was even the case for a lot of early pre 20th Century Semi Auto Rifle designs. Remember Semi Automatic pistols were still relatively new onto the scene. It is why the Type A is such a better stronger version of the Nambu despite being an earlier version, the later versions were less reliable, weaker action and prone to warring out quicker as it was found the Type A's strong points were just unnecessary, for the same reasons it's mentioned in the video, and on top of that it made production cost for the weapon much cheaper.

"...a bit of a snag in the action that needed to be addressed with some profanity..." Beautifully stated!

I know Ian did a video about the Baby-Nambu and he told the story of a japanese army doctor who carried one for 20 years without firing it even once. Oh, and Othias, don't burn yorself out on this. Do stuff in you own way and in your own time and at least, I will be happy to see whatever you bring us. Stay safe!

"All the Ruger target pistols were based off the Nambu." Well that explains by they are so hard to dissemble.. Apparently its in the family.

Othias has lost alot of weight since the start of the series, bravo dude, you're looking well!

2:55 That Line Drawing though. LOL. In this episode, witness as Othias struggles to stay on this side of sanity and avoid giving into madness. Great episode as always.

Othias...dude. Being a firearm historian and gunsmith myself I have loved this series from the start. But I will say you are looking a bit stressed my man. Take a little time off to get your family stuff taken care of. I’m pretty sure the true c&rsenal fans will fully understand if you take a little break. I for one will still be here when you come back.

C&Rsenal in time for breakfast. Great start to the day!

Just came home from school depressed, a new c&rsenal now I’m happy

Sleep.....nah. New C&Rsenal video

The disheveled look during the field strip! Hehehe... The Type B - Less Combaty.

Good god this channel needs so many more subscribers. The production value, writing, and humor is extremely professional.

Othias, well wishes and thoughts. I am humbled at & by your stamina and perseverance over the last several years. You rock!

Just recently discovered your videos. You and Ian from forgotten weapons make the best firearms content on this platform, and probably the entire internet. Keep up the great work.

The greatest gun review I've ever seen! Appreciated!

Really loving the show and glad I came over from the Great War.

You Guys do a fantastic show. Thanks for all you do on bring history to life for us gun nuts.

After many years of watching..THIS is my favorite!

"Once more, we've Mae'ed room for Mae."

Enjoying the history

Hey, Othais! How are you? Just want to say that I absolutely love your work and greatly admire all the effort you put into creating such magnificent content for us to enjoy.

Love the plaid shirts!! Always in style... Keep up the great history lessons

Mabey you could alleviate some of the spaztic fixation with cleared guns if you put a little "All guns have been cleared prior to filming" notification at the start. Great video as always! I love these weird Japanese designs, here in California since so many vets went here post war, Arisakas are by far the most common surplus rifles at the gunshow by me.

Great show!

Wonderful episode. Bruno's animations are getting top notch. I hope you don't burn out...

Waiting on the new episode! Can't wait for my lunch break to watch it!

18:36 at first I'm like, "Do they have black powder handloads?? Wtf?" Then I realize its just really cold outside at the time of filming.

thank you Very much for this film

Love the videos you guys do. For those that are always demanding this or that, let them take a long walk off a short pier.

In defense of the 8mm Nambu round, the .32 ACP was establishing itself as a useable military cartridge at the time, and the 8mm Nambu goes a bit faster than that JMB cartridge design which I feel made it adequate for the job it was intended for. Edit: VA appointment at 1500hrs 13 Feb, yay~!

GREAT VIDEO !!!

Come for the history, stay for the comedy ;)!

They had experience with C96 pistols. It had a powerful cartridge. They made a very conscious choice to go for recoil control.

Just goined the patrion , good to see my money at work, thank you for a great show

I love it when Mae thanks all the dead people. "Thanks Guys."

The animations are getting better, seriously nice 3D work!

I love the show yall are great i found yall a year ago and have wated every epiosdoe

Seeing these turn-of-the-last-century guns being disassembled make me appreciate modern designs a lot more. Hell, it makes me appreciate the 1911 a lot more.

I'm trying to catch up... That's why my belated comment. On the other hand this channel does indeed work like an encyclopedia, so thank you for your thorough work! (16:00 I realized now how much I was missing that animation background music... :-) )

3:00 Glorious

As a non-American that was not close to any gun community, I am always suprised when Othais said some gun was stereotypically 'bad'. I mean it just look robust and powerful, especially considering its age.

Little pins always wanna be dropping. Good job keeping things in check Othais

I like the back recoil plate. The circle and hatch marks of the back look very similar to the rifle safely.

Keep it up

This gun is itself a grumpy old man, and I find that inexplicably endearing.

The best part of waking up

I somehow love this gunn 🙏🏼

Family first man, you take care of yourself. We will understand if you have to take more time between episodes. BTW I have this gun I would like you to look at ...

G'day, Thanks, As usual, highly informative. Thanks for posting. ;-p Ciao !

And we love you, too.

Good GUN !!!

At 14:34 we meet Disheveled Othais, who is now my favorite Othais.

Perhaps when Mae finishes her discussion she could let us know her top five pistols, rifles, etc. ? Would be curious to see a running list as each piece is introduced and how it affects her list up and down.

You guys mention the lahti a lot. I anxiously await the video on that pistol!

To add further confusion to the naming of these three pistols, from what I can gather Japanese-language sources don't seem to share the "Type A" / "Type A Modified" / "Type B" split. Instead we have what translates to "Large-Model kou" / "Large-Model otsu" / "Small-Model". The suffixes kou and otsu are roughly equivalent to A and B, though it depends on how much you want to translate or be more of a purist. You'll find the same "not alphabet" system used for variants of military things in general too (kou/otsu/hei/tei/...). The part that's inconsistent is it seems(!) that English sources may have misinterpreted these as the model name itself, and then also applied kou/A to both large pistols, and moved otsu/B to the small one. It seems like one of those so-common examples from this time period where a gun didn't really have a "proper" name, but more like a series of descriptors. That is to say, Nambu (designer) Large-Model (descriptor) otsu/B (iteration). I don't want to claim to be the ultimate authority on this or anything, it's just what I've been able to gather, but there are certainly a LOT of foreign names we've misnamed in English and all take for granted to be correct.

Lax safety. Why wasn't the gun cleared every time it was even referenced? Bruno needs to add a clearing animation during the x-ray view. (It's a joke people)

Great show Othais, Mae and the crew.

The problem with the Type 14 having poor reliability has to be dependent on the year of make. If it's anything between 1927-1938 are considered pretty well made and I do in fact used to fire a fair share of my friend's pre-war Nambu (His did not have the enlarged trigger guard) and my friend's grandfather war trophy from Okinawa which was a 1944 Type 14 he got from a surrendering soldier who took it from his dead officer. We took those two one day to the range (We're all friends) and the pre-war ones fired very nicely cycling though about 72 rounds combined among 4 people while the damn stupid war time Type 14 can't even handle past 15 rounds before the entire recoil spring deformed. We brought a reproduction, stronger one and changed it on the spot (Took us about 45 mins as we're at a range near a gun shop in Colorado) and after firing another 20 rounds, the magazine latch broke and the magazine keeps wanting to fall out and we stopped firing the gun. What a useless piece of crap the war time Japanese weapons are...

seriously othias. take all the time you need. take a vacation if you need one. this is a side project to your life. well wait for you if you need time off!

thanks for another great episode! but will there be at some point the "war were declared"-shirt?

Dammit, now I want a Lahti episode. Curse you! But great job as always!

I personally think the cartridge is fine for the pistol. .380 is regularly still made with locking pistols. And .380-.45acp has similar one shot stop stats from police.

Gut Video ever

*gets popcorn*

Another great episode guys! PLEASE, turn down the brightness levels in the post processing. The video footage of you is way way blown out. I know you gotta keep the light bright so we can see the guns, just something to consider. Maybe keep the levels normal , and use the bright setting when you are doing your close ups.

32:13 The nomenclature crossover is especially amusing because historically, the only organization the Imperial Japanese Army hated more than the enemy (whoever the enemy might have been at any particular time) was the Imperial Japanese Navy, and vice versa. Also, feels like a Lahti? I admit I haven't handled a Papa, only the later Type 14, but c'mon, there's no way a Nambu weighs 45 pounds. :) (I love my Lahti, but ye gods, I swear I have rifles that don't weigh as much.)

I think the biggest issue with the cartridge is the size. It is a rather long cartridge for a rather low velocity. The main issue with the length is the way they sit in the magazine. They are all kind of tilted up, resting on each other in a very awkward manor. If you get any dirt in that magazine, it locks up. It seems that cartridge was the main weak link to the whole system, and not just due too the meh power.

Forgotten Weapons has a video on the baby, you should put a link to it for further information on the Baby Nambu.

If the rounds hadn't been bottlenecked and packed with more powder, 8mm Nambu could have been an effective round, but I doubt you'd still need a locked breech. But it would have made more sense instead of what they had. Though it's a refined gun nonetheless 👍

Sleep... New episode... Sleep... New episode... New episode! Very cool! Also, please don't gouge your own eyes out Othais, take some time off if you need it.

The music during animation reminds me of mass effect 1 map theme.

It would be cool to have a copy to test 8mm Nambu +P rounds.

Neat! 😆

Mechanical looks similar to the mauserC96 with a magazine in the handgripp

Brilliantly done, as always. Thanks guys! (I hope this comment helps your channel to grow :-)

Have you considered "Co-Branding", I think the term is with RIA or Julia to get some of the weapons for the episodes? Where they would work with the consignor for you to be able to use the firearm for an episode and you would give it's auction listing in the credits like Ian does?

What was the song used during the shooting in this episode?

Thank's for uploading. I am Japanese.

It struck me: With machineguns such as Lewis, Hotchkiss and Maxim clones that you had covered in previous videos, is there any chance that you sometime will get a look at Schwarzlose M.7?

I love your show love everything about it when do you think you'll start on World War 2 guns

One Question. Did Nambu have any notes that survived to explain his thinking?

Man Othias you remind me a bit of that guy that sings "Black Betty". LOL

Отличный обзор этого пистолета, давно искал . историю знаю, но внешний вид, детальная разборка , вижу впервые. На русскоязычных сайтах такого нет.

Haha literally looking at one on RIA right now

What is Mae's Favorite pistol for WW 1 ?

8mm Nambu +P?

Problem with tiny issues is that they add up.

Great video! One question... why dont you let Mae give a lecture and you shoot one? PS..... did you check that gun??? Lol... couldnt resist.

Am i the only one rewatching 6 year old shows in May 2024 ..?

Mae Winchester - look, I don't mean to be sexist.just sayin. I really love it when you smile. You don't do it enough and on this episode you smiled just about all the way through.

Just taking it into your lap for a quick wrestle

How did people figure what Mark to put on the gun sights can anybody referred me to any good online article or explain to me how they figured out the Range of cartridge and then how this information was used to create the markings on a rifle sights so basically asking how did people create rifle sights and how they work

Hope everything is well Othaias, dont want to see you stress out over things :(.

This gun reminds me alot of the Luger because of the grip and mag set up It also reminds me of the Ruger MK 2 22LR because of the bolt set up and it reminds me of the C96 due to the bolt sear that engages the Bolt does anybody else see this or am i the only one what are your thoughts?

Nambu: "Hey, Glisenti, can I borrow your homework?" Glisenti: "Yeah, just make sure to make it look like you didn't copy me."