History Primer 159: Japanese "Arisaka" Type 35 Documentary

[@TexasTeaHTX]

The best news I’ve gotten at 2 o’clock in the morning in a great long while.

[@presidentmerkinmuffley6769]

Close for me but not quite..... them tig bitty hoes wanting to "talk" has been occuring... I love and hate my job.

[@Chimera262]

haha my dude

[@artinrahideh1229]

It's launch time in Iran though😀

[@M4G4M4N]

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[@presidentmerkinmuffley6769]

@@M4G4M4N Meh, if it might be Da Baby's, then I know it aint mine.... There are uh some places where you (should) know better than to use your cleaning rod....

[@dominiccairo9530]

Hi guys, few other tidbits, of the 30,000 ish serial production receives, only about 12,000 ish were finished in this pattern, a few hundred more were turned into naval sub calibur training devices. the sum of remaining recievers became the 02/45 rifle. A shockingly large number of these made it to finland, well over 5000 were sent to finland, and to this day finland remains the only place the bayonets are common. lastly it is worth noting that the 35 retains the medford rifles that the 30 has, i am frankly unsure if early 38 had medford, or enfield refleing. Mr. Kobayashi and his NPO are a tokyo based Orginization Who help Fund me, They are working on a museaum For Tanks and vehicles, Just wanted to throw them a Shout-Out Thx.

[@fg42t2]

Thank you for Loaning that handsome Rifle !!! Mae shot her smallest group with it even though it will be lost for ever when they do a minute of Mae with the Type 35 !!

[@arisukak]

What gives you the impresssion that only 12,000 were made? "The Early Arisakas" list reported serial numbers all the way from 3 digits to the 38,000 range. Most of the Hiroki Device sub-caliber trainers became those "02/45" rifles. I think less than 200 of those were made too. Most serial numbers in the barrel channel on them are under 100. Mine is 115. The reason Finland has a lot is because most Type 35s were sold to Russia in WWI along with the Type 30s and Type 38s. And yes, all Arisakas, including the Type 38 and Type 99 have metford rifling.

[@dominiccairo9530]

@@arisukak Strange that my Type 99s and 38s have Enfield rifling. The serial numbers have been sporadic, but there are also clear divides in the numbers. I could be wrong, but this is what I have been told by a few sources, some of them from Banzai and some from my pals in Japan. the numbers under the barrel on the stock and other areas are assembly numbers, not serial numbers, a hundred or so at a Time were being assembled. also remember the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal was busy making other things, not focusing on a special navy project. I have handled some of the original subcaliber training devices, and the "02/45" rifles, likewise their serial numbers were across the board. It would seem strange that intermittently they decided to inject random receivers that were not in the standard pattern for the serial range, but never the less this seems to be what happened. I believe the common conclusion of this is that the receivers were serialized as they were taken off the line, but not completed. I would then assume the best examples were finished into the standard pattern. the subcaliber training devices I have seen were also in a distinct finish(paint or lacquer?), not blued, the 02/45s were phosphate finished that I have seen.

[@arisukak]

@@dominiccairo9530 All 99s and 38s have metford rifling. There are no "02/45s" with the same number under the stock reported. I don't think there are many made as there wouldn't have been many Hiroki Devices to convert in the first place. I don't see any reason for Type 35 serial numbers to skip around. The Japanese didn't do that to any other rifle or pistol. I haven't seen any "02/45" painted or phosphated. Not even sure Japan ever used that finish, but I know some 99s are painted probably by the navy.

[@dominiccairo9530]

@@arisukak Again, it is strange that my 38s and 99s have clear square lands and grooves. One of my last ditches barrels is not that great and there are not-so-clear flat spaces but in my unissued 38 carbines the squared edge flats where the peaks should be seem to conflict with how I understand Medford rifling to work. My type 30s however show clear peaks and valleys indicative of Medford rifling. it just so happens that most of my rifles are Nagoya, Perhaps the Nagoya factory did something the others did not, and I am not aware. All I am saying is what my rifles are. I have only seen 6 02/45s and they displayed a similar gray poor quality phosphate finish. For the training devices, I have only seen 2, perhaps a GI put some jazz on them, but they seemed to be shellacked, lacquered, or otherwise coated in some as to me unknown substance. I also see no reason for them to skip around I can only speculate. based on what I have seen. The other Type 35 rifles I have handled besides the 02/45s and naval training devices, were scattered in terms of the serial number, and the others inside of the range I have observed. Who knows perhaps all of these are fakes, I don't know it's only around a dozen type 35 receivers and all of them were in one collection. The one in the episode being the best in the set.

[@nathanielaiko8756]

Never thought I'd see this unicorn of a Japanese rifle, love the coverage of Japanese guns on this channel!

[@misha5670]

I love that Japanese guns are finally getting the recognition they deserve online. For years I felt like a voice in the wilderness reguarding them. Only good thing was prices were very reasonable back in the '90s and early 2000s for Arisakas and Nambus.

[@sawyere2496]

@@misha5670 I wish 6.5 was easier to find. Such a nice shooting cartridge.

[@austin9988]

Just some notes on Japanese Naval Infantry and it's arms. The Japanese Navy's Marine Corps only existed from from 1871-1876. After that the Japanese Navy trained all of its troops to temporarily disembark as shore parties called Kaigun Rikusentai or Naval Landing Forces. Special Naval Landing Forces were not stationed aboard ships, but rather formed specifically for operations at naval bases and then shipped off to the area they needed to be deployed. The first Special Naval Landing Forces operation was in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, but it would take another 32 years for Special Naval Landing Forces to be given an official decree and recognition within the IJN, prior to that it was just a nickname for naval infantry independent of ship crews. The early arms were not solely Murutas either, they imported a number of Schneider rifles although I'm not sure what the particular model was. And lastly the Type 38 was officially adopted by the IJN-essentially completely replacing the Type 35 in 1915. So WW1 is basically the last time you will see Type 35s in significant numbers.

[@longlane_official]

Bedankt

[@thespecialbru]

The bluing on the dust cover is truly amazing, I’m so jealous of whoever owns this rifle.

[@niklasaskham4208]

Thanks team. Much appreciation from New Zealand !

[@4doorsmorewhores298]

Same bro

[@88porpoise]

Seems like the Type 35 was an effort to fix some of the biggest issues of the Type 30 while not impacting production significantly until a more refined rifle could be produced in large numbers.

[@andrewstraub131]

I love the Japanese rifles ! In 1996 I bought a butchered type 38 With a Tasco 3-9x40 rudely installed and finished off with one of those godawful 60s stocks for $50 with a box of ammo . Teenage me thought this was the supreme sporting /military/competition rifle, I even purchased a lee hand loading kit for it . It took a handful of deer and coyote even a bobcat then tragically my friend borrowed it for deer and got arrested ! This has been a very cool episode

[@presidentmerkinmuffley6769]

Fresh stuff. Oh man. Its been hell since the 20th of June. This is what I needed. Thank you.

[@gyrene_asea4133]

Great episode. No, it is not possible to have too much presented on such fantastic design and iterations of gorgeous rifles by some clever people. Thanks.

[@tangero3462]

Excellent episode! This was something completely new to me so I'm quite happy to have learned about it now

[@rush8531]

"I'm a revolver" "And then I roll on the Revolvers" Never change Othais Thanks for the beautiful display this upload

[@88porpoise]

I just hope he has a lazy Susan to revolve the revolvers on.

[@firestorm8471]

The smile after shooting,,never gets old Mae..😁

[@firestorm8471]

That is the first one if those I have ever saw up close. Now I want one !! I collect military bolt actions and am really partial to 6.5x50. Thanks for making me LUST ! 😁

[@cheesenoodles8316]

Great episode. The Arisaka - Nambu intersection was great. That Type 35 is beautiful. Note:. 9mm Night .... same thing ...

[@leecrt967]

17:30 Whaaat? No vintage Japanese background music? I always wait for that.

[@Pcm979]

Yeah, Nambu deserves to have the latter rifle named after him. I don't know if it'll ever happen, but it's worth saying it.

[@awokado5710]

Like always another great one!

[@blanktm228]

good episode, thank you for showing us this lovely weapon!

[@RedWhing13]

Waiting this episode for a long time! But I know your work always worth the wait

[@IchBinJager]

As someone working on a WWII game about the Pacific theatre, I'm glad to have videos about the Japanese rifles.

[@ScottKenny1978]

That is a _gorgeous_ rifle, Othias!

[@paleoph6168]

Can't wait for the Minute of Mae segment for this.

[@9HoleReviews]

Where hachimaki headband? 🇯🇵

[@nono-jj9rr]

Dishonorablu

[@misha5670]

I told you i would do that if you would ever finish that Japanese video with me!

[@lafeelabriel]

Got to say, there's something genuinly elegant about these old school bolt action rifles that you just don't see in modern firearms. And at the very least a part of it is that wooden furniture.

[@devanmullins4180]

Ahh yes 4AM time to watch another video on a rifle I’ve never seen or heard of!

[@brianknezevich9894]

Haven't finished the ending commentary yet. I rather like the look of the stock, in terms of finish and grain. Funny, I'm a history nut, and I've never had a TV. People keep trying to bring them to me, though. I read books and what I do actually watch for enjoyment is generally fairly detailed history....

[@Khanclansith]

Well this made my night

[@Anicepair]

Thank you. Awesome information.

[@planescaped]

I didn't own a Tv for over a decade, having got rid of television in 2007. My older brother upon learning this (having just assumed we had TV) was in utter disbelief bought us a really good one... I use it uhh, sometimes...

[@Ensign_Cthulhu]

18:59 It would be interesting to have the aiming point as well as the impact points highlighted. Those impact points look like a recipe for pate de foie gras. Goodbye, Mr Liver!

[@davidjelescu7694]

I can't expect for you to cover the Martini😍.

[@andrewstraub131]

He said a couple of episodes back that they will be covering at least the martini Henry

[@genericpersonx333]

Peabodys and their related actions were used in the Great War in various roles, so they have been on the list since the channel's start. The delay is mostly a desire to have the best sources and presentation of the guns in chronological order (never easy when dealing with Ottoman weaponry), which means that we should expect probably another episode on Peabody before we get the Martini-Henry variant of the system. Also, I suspect a certain fellow in Canada is being worked with to provide the most comprehensive episode(s) possible. Stay tuned, my friend. It shall come in good time.

[@presidentmerkinmuffley6769]

@23:15 We do require more context, we will be happy to take the flood of the same. I mean, sir, how many Mausers have we sat through. How is Nambu-sama any different than Herr Mauser or Mr. Browning?

[@misha5670]

Agreed, I have a deep respect and interest in Japanese firearms. I have an entire shelf of just "last ditches" in the ol' gunroom.

[@LukeBunyip]

Seconded. I'm here for the minutiae; who did what when, and why. Or for those of us that have been here for a while, enjoying yet another Sasquatch tangent.

[@milsurprifleguy7091]

Thanks for the video , awhile back I acquired a Type 30 . It has a lot of dents / dings on it , the mum has been ground off and possibly it was bought by Russia , it has the release ground down inside the trigger guard , that you mentioned that the Russians did

[@spookyspenders88]

Such a cool rifle!

[@macnitt4039]

Thank you

[@MountainRifleman3777]

Very interesting as usual. And don’t worry. I don’t own a TV either lol. I do have a wall projector that connects to my DVD player and computer so I can watch stuff on “big screen” without taking up much space

[@wilhelm_iron2359]

I really like the Japanese stuff, since I don't know many people who are knowledgeable in it in my personal life. One question I do have: I picked up a Gewehr 88 that is in a Japanese stock, it looks like a Type 30 stock. Was this a thing in Japan, or did some American slap that stock onto the rifle? I've never really had anyone able to tell me what it is

[@jakearmstrong2127]

I love this channel! I can't wait until they cover WW2. I am totally considering being a patreon member

[@genericpersonx333]

It is unfortunate that we don't have easy access to more data on the manufacturing changes as well for most of these firearms. We can see changes made to improve the safety and other features, as well as gross changes to design to ease manufacture, but the fine changes are easily missed like the exact shape of a curve being changed to speed up machining. There are so many little things that people do to make manufacturing easier almost entirely unnoticed by people outside of the actual factories. When I see an iterative design like the Type 35, I cannot help but wonder what Nambu and his team did beyond the obvious to make this gun more efficient for the arsenals to produce.

[@chooseyouhandle]

3:00AM watching new C&rsenal

[@phoenixrising4573]

No magazine cutoff!!!!! *stares angrily in British*

[@pablowentscobar]

Great history lesson, as usual. And, some algorithm food.

[@themoose6430]

Yessss I love the rifle episodes

[@saradolphin3242]

I like It Short Promo Thanks!

[@ronaldmead7643]

My father brought one of these back from the war and it still has the little flower stamp on top

[@MartinCHorowitz]

When discussing Naval Rifles, I would expect much larger calibers, and Drachinifel giving commentary.....

[@88porpoise]

I dunno about the former, but there should be the latter in the not too distant future.

[@MartinCHorowitz]

@@88porpoise When I was hanging out with Drach, the Naval rifles we were looking at were 16" 50 Caliber.

[@maewinchester2030]

Seriously love me some arisakas.

[@ZigZagMarquis]

Othais and Mae, long time viewer, first time poster here. First off, thanks for the videos. My question is, other than WWII veteran bring-backs, generally speaking, how is it WWII Japanese small arms have survived to this day to show up on the collectors market? My assumption has always been that much of their stocks of small arms got destroyed once the US occupied Japan after the war.

[@scott_hunts]

Such a pretty rifle.

[@chpet1655]

Hefty firing pin !

[@christianweibrecht6555]

It shocks me how popular and influential Mauser rifles developed during the 1890s where Also I don't consider it strange to not own a TV because we have smartphones tablets and online streaming services

[@tomhenry897]

Think he didn’t have a tv before those

[@simonjones6128]

Great job you two I used to think the Arisaka was not very good thanks for waking me up from my delusion

[@9x19mmPara]

我が国最高のライフル 有坂を紹介してくれてありがとうございます！

[@flavortown3781]

Yesssss arisaka yessssss

[@samiam619]

It’s 4 am now so forgive a muddy brain. The reference Dominique probably is alluding to is the Star Trek Cadet James T. Kirk at the Naval (or Space) Academy and his cheating on the Kobiashi Maru problem that is a Lose-Lose situation.

[@misha5670]

Crossed my mind too but then again, i often have scifi on the spock's brain.

[@braden1986]

Well, there is a city called Kobayashi in Japan, also a common surname. So maybe related to the actual city.

[@sawyere2496]

I think he was talking about an anime.

[@bruceinoz8002]

The Royal Navy also took delivery of several large batches of Japanese rifles, to free up .303 Lee Enfields for the Western Front meat-grinder. Most of these 6.5 rifles either went into storage or were shipped to Imperial Russian forces. Kynoch made prodigious quantities of the 6.5 Jap round, initially for the RN, bur eventually for the Russians. There are reports of Russian troops carrying Type 30 and Type 38 rifles in the invasion of Finland. (along with The similarly-chambered 1916 Federov "assault rifle") But I have seen no pictures to date. Anyone else?? As seems to be the tradition, those rifles still lurking around RN ships and depots were eventually rounded up and sent to Davey Jones locker; thus contributing somewhat to their scarcity.

[@jonkrier]

Comment for the algorithm. Keep doing what you do

[@misha5670]

I have an old 12" portable TV in the basement I'll send you. It even has a nifty VHS player built right in. It was the hight of cool......30 years ago? Need the rabbit ears too?

[@L.Pondera]

Jesse, I am the revolver. -Some Ocelot probably.

[@maxzuihou3582]

Hope that we will see Type I rifle on this channel

[@Ben_not_10]

Looking at the Type 30 and the Type 35 you can clearly see why the change to the Type 38 was so welcome. Because the Type 38 is beautluful and idiot proof. The Type 30 bolt alone requires a semester in college in order to disassemble and an appointment with your therapist once you get it back together.

[@MellowGrunt10]

Legit was just watching the Tupe 38 video where you mentioned how rare this rifle is, talk about timing.

[@EdAtoZ]

Othas, With the safety engaged can you still sight down the sights since the safety up ?

[@SeventhSamurai72]

I have an Arisaka that my grandfather captured during the Philippines campaign of WW2. I consider it a family heirloom.

[@natureman494]

I usually don't really like the look of japanese rifles, but this one does something for me.

[@jeffhartman2983]

Dream rifle of my gun smith. Now I know why.

[@flavortown3781]

This is very much a rifle gunsmith would love

[@laurentdevaux5617]

I'm affraid it will probably be only a dream, and for a long time... I never hold a single one in my 40 years of collector life. And I'm not the only one, for sure !

[@misha5670]

@@laurentdevaux5617 It took me 20 years to track one down, and that was within Japanese collector circles. Ironically, after finally finding one, i found a second not 2 months later. That happens to me a strange numer of times.

[@beargillium2369]

Having never handled one, does the dust cover maybe want to pop off because if you don't open it but you do rack it then you lose the dust cover but not malfunction?

[@TheJsmitty85]

Finally I’m not the only person who doesn’t own a television!

[@flavortown3781]

Something I'd like to see, a semiauto controlled feed rifle

[@stevenicholas5651]

Almost every semiauto pistol had controlled feed. But for a rifle to have controlled feed it would need a single feed system instead of a double stack double feed system. Because the cartridge would have to come up under the extractor before it gets pushed off the magazine feed lips. Very hard to do with a double stack double feed magazine...

[@tristanc3873]

@@stevenicholas5651 Mausers themselves used a double stack, double feed, system. So its very much possible to do with that magazine configuration.

[@davitdavid7165]

Isn't the rsc 1917 just that?

[@stevenicholas5651]

@@tristanc3873 hmm that makes me wonder if any of the semi auto German rifles of WW1 or WW2 had a double stack double feed controlled feed rifles. I'll research.

[@johnqpublic2718]

Heck yeah.

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

Well done as always Comment for the algorithm gods

[@Mangowaffle]

Is revolver night open to patreons?

[@madaboutmilitaria3630]

You two are weird, I love it🤣

[@brandonburns1380]

Ok, I just wanted to make it clear that I heard that Arisaka got commendations for overseeing artillery at Port Arthur where the Russian Fleet got sunk at port by Japanese land based artillery?! Was he involved?!

[@brandonburns1380]

By and by I’ve been to Dalian.

[@benjamingonzalezhernandez3497]

Aqui en Mexico tengo ese rifle japones nose como yego pero es una chulada nomas q no tengo municiones no las ay

[@brickproduction1815]

Isn't that on Tannenberg? Are you guys working with M2H for the new Isonzo game?

[@presidentmerkinmuffley6769]

Hmmmm Dutch Mannlicher style sight for a county that really only traded via the Dutch for a long time.... until we made them do otherwise most interesting...

[@genericpersonx333]

Pretty sure it is entirely coincidence, but I do find historical coincidences to be amusing for sure.

[@北の国は金魚の糞]

38式歩兵銃は大日本帝国が作った最高の銃

[@danielnauta5689]

What a handsome rifle

[@Zyme86]

And here I thought I would get some sleep to recover from surgery... (p.s. thx for taking my mind off of an aborted procedure waiting for the revision)

[@chpet1655]

Wasn’t everyone in Japan the son of a former samurai ? I’ve read that at least 25 or maybe even 30% of men in the Japan of the 19th Century. Had Samurai roots in some fashion

[@genericpersonx333]

That is sort of true, but it matters a lot about what point in the 19th century you are looking at. Before the abolition of the Samurai class in the 1870s, the Samurai class suffered from fertility problems due to the strict marriage rules designed in part to keep down Samurai numbers. So before the 1870s, not many men in Japan had legitimate Samurai heritage. However, with the end of the class, the rules on marriage went away, and so many ex-Samurai very quickly got married and had much bigger families than before, leading to a very large population of "Samurai" by the end of the 19th century that definitely didn't exist at the beginning.

[@chpet1655]

Ahhh the old fertility crisis that would explain things

[@Flyingpapaya]

Kinda in the same vein as the TV stuff around 25 minutes in, I don't own a microwave and people always find that odd. I would rather invest the time to cook my food in an oven as the result is so much better.

[@Dogbertious]

I want pictures of Revolver Night.

[@jeffie8696]

Kobyashi Maru = Star Trek no win scenario LOL

[@piatpotatopeon8305]

I use a variation of this rifle to arm my naval contingents in the far future.

[@NomadShadow1]

Cool

[@xXGatekeeper49Xx]

If I ever miss a episode someone call 911 cause there's something wrong

[@exploatores]

When I was in my teens, we didn´t have a tv. we had a 50" computor monitor in the living room. My father had his own company.

[@anthonycollora2921]

That’s a good museum piece right there how agree’s in the comments say so

[@YS9456]

How nice "三十五年式海軍銃"(Arisaka Type 35) !!

[@brianfoster4434]

I like the shooting sequence without music. More of the "gun sounds" can be heard. I bet fighting off the copyright trolls is a pain.

[@pkt1213]

Is "blamo" a technical term?

[@Frank-bc8gg]

30:38 Japanese home gaurd take aim using their arisakas against American bombers, colorized 1945

[@aaroncfriedman]

I am hearing rifle fire but no music. Interesting.

[@Vasilkripov1]

epic

[@petercarlisle2927]

Oh yeah....

[@josephbrands6303]

My only disappointment, no 1900 Japanese music during Mae's firing sequence. I'm sad.

[@napalmfaceattack7950]

Grandpa Nambu pistol.