Japanese 38th Year Rifle
(Japanese 38th Year Rifle) 38th Year Rifle
1905 (Meiji 38th Year) A machine-type rifle started to be produced by Japan's Arisaka Arsenal. The caliber is 6.5 mm, the gun weight is 4.2 kg, the gun length (without bayonet) is 1275 mm, the warhead muzzle velocity is 732 m/s, the effective range is 460 meters, the magazine capacity is 5 rounds, and it is equipped with a single-edged bayonet with a length of 500 mm. Mounted on a gun for stabbing, it can also be held by the handle for slashing. The bullet of the Type 38 rifle has stable flight, small recoil impulse, and good shooting accuracy. The disadvantage is that its killing power is insufficient. The Type 38 rifle was once the main equipment of the Japanese invaders. It was also the main weapon that the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians seized from the battlefield in large quantities and used it to arm themselves against the invasion.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the name for the Meiji 38-year-old Arisaka rifle was retained. The gun imitated the German Mauser rifle and was adopted as the standard rifle in the same year of the Russo-Japanese War (1905, Meiji 38). It was used until World War II. The most important feature is the dust cover on the bolt. This gun uses 6.5x50SRmm bullets to match the Japanese body shape. Although the power is slightly insufficient, it hardly produces muzzle flames. Japanese snipers who used this rifle in the Pacific Island battles caused great trouble to the US military and were very difficult to remove. Muzzle flash revealed the sniper's lurking position. It is also worth mentioning that its bolt is extremely solid when locked. When a chamber explosion occurs, the barrel almost always bursts, and the bolt lug is rarely broken.
Medium formal
Operation principle: rotating bolt, Mauser front bolt locking, manual (Rotating bolt, front lug, bolt action)
Ejection Magazine capacity: built-in magazine, 4 rounds
Sights: rear sight, blade front sight
Caliber: 7.92x57mm
Barrel length: 23”
Compatibility: Mauser Standard Modell
Manufacturer: Henan Gongxian Arsenal
Manufacturing Year: September 1935
The official rifle was modern China, which continuously tried to institutionalize the rifle, and achieved some achievements for the first time. Of course, a very important factor was the nationalization of the army, and the establishment of the Central Army slowly achieved some results.
The Gongxian Arsenal began small-scale trial production of medium- and formal rifles in early 1935, and mass production began in about July. The serial number of this gun is 3157. It belongs to the earliest batch. At the same time, it can also be speculated that at that time The monthly output is no more than eight or nine hundred guns.
What is very surprising is that this gun uses a two-piece butt. But there are no joints, it is just glued together, and then the butt is The bottom plate is then locked with screws. This method was invented by the Japanese. It is said that the reason is to save wood and increase the strength of the bottom of the butt. However, over time, the joint will definitely crack
Barge Gun
The shell gun, also known as the box gun in China, is officially called the Mauser Military Pistol. The Mauser Factory obtained the patent on December 11, 1895 and officially produced the holster the following year. It is a wooden box, so it is also called a box gun in China. There is a fully automatic type called a speed machine. The Mauser factory called it the M712 rapid-fire type (Schnellfeuer), which was mass-produced in May 1931. The word "speed machine" can often be seen in many novels in my country. Wang Qiang, one of the railway guerrillas who was my favorite when I was a child, was carrying two "speed machines" and beat the shit out of the Japanese. The other less well-known is the shell gun. The name of the pistol is Zilaide. Many people think that only the rapid-fire type is called Zilaide. This is incorrect. In fact, Zilaide has always been the earliest official name for this type of pistol in China.
The shell gun was designed by the three Fidel brothers (Fidel, Friedrich, and Josef Feederle) of the Mauser Arsenal in Germany. However, the last patent applicant for the gun was the boss of the Mauser Arsenal, so the shell gun is also called the Mauser. Pistol.
In 1896, the Mauser Arsenal hoped to produce shell guns for the German army. However, until the Mauser factory stopped producing the shell gun in 1939, no country in the world adopted the shell gun as the standard weapon of the army. During these decades, the Mauser factory is estimated to have produced approximately one million rifles of various types. The number of counterfeit products produced in other countries is several times that. The military of various countries do not use the shell gun not because the quality of the gun is not good, but because the price is too high, and the gun is too large to be used as a pistol by the European army, and the power is too small to be used as a rifle. If it doesn’t go down, it’s a dilemma.
As the saying goes, the flaws do not hide the advantages, but the shell gun is really loved by users in China. In the first half of the 20th century, China was in dire straits. Warlords of various factions were fighting against each other and were in urgent need of weapons for combat. At that time, Japan controls the export of arms from the West to China, but the shell gun used as a pistol is not included in this list. Therefore, the shell gun has become the first choice for various armed factions.
In China's anti-imperialist, anti-feudal and anti-aggression struggles, the people's armed forces also seized a large number of enemy weapons to arm themselves. Therefore, the people's army was also equipped with a large number of such shell guns, which launched the first shot of the Nanchang Uprising. The army commander Zhu De used a shell gun.
In its forty-year history of mass production, the German shell gun has had almost no internal changes, so it can be said that the original design is almost perfect and there is nothing to improve. There are basically no tools needed to dismantle a shell gun. As long as there is a bullet from the shell gun, the gun can be disassembled. The box gun is a cute and ugly standard, almost romantic.