Stimulating the economy this weekend buying a few pistols and accessories, my friend sold me an extra firing pin for my Nambu rig. He threw this box of ammo for a little extra & i had every intention of shooting it at the range! LOL It looked old and i counted 53 rounds in the box. Luckily i looked up the brand and found out besides original Japanese ammo this is the ONLY other collectible ammo for the Nambu! Ive pieced together this rig, bought the Nagoya Nambu June 35 build, the Type III holster Nagoya Arsenal 1938 date (Check out the name/date written inside the flap, G. Heckman USN Guam 1945 you can barely make out) , original cleaning/loading rod at Show of Shows, the holster sling i can't believe i found for cheap! I've got the replacement firing pin in the pistol and the original now resides in the extra pin pocket in the holster. All i need to finish it is an extra magazine and a wrapped package of original ammo lol ( One day ill find it!)
(Taken from Nambu World) "Besides the original Japanese rounds, at least one other type qualifies as collectible. In the early post-war period there were more war souvenir Nambus than there was ammo, so in 1948 two enterprising residents of Minneapolis, Robert E. Bard and Osborne Klavestad, got some backers and went into the business of making 8mm Nambu ammo under the B&E brand. The B&E rounds were highly unusual in that the cartridge cases were turned, not drawn in the usual way. Ten-foot lengths of brass rod were fed into a six-spindle screw machine that turned out a completed case every five seconds, or 720 per hour. The bullets were also unusual. Lead wire was cut to length, then formed in a die and plated with a copper alloy. The company only operated for a few years and their cartridges are too scarce to shoot today."
(Taken from Nambu World) "Besides the original Japanese rounds, at least one other type qualifies as collectible. In the early post-war period there were more war souvenir Nambus than there was ammo, so in 1948 two enterprising residents of Minneapolis, Robert E. Bard and Osborne Klavestad, got some backers and went into the business of making 8mm Nambu ammo under the B&E brand. The B&E rounds were highly unusual in that the cartridge cases were turned, not drawn in the usual way. Ten-foot lengths of brass rod were fed into a six-spindle screw machine that turned out a completed case every five seconds, or 720 per hour. The bullets were also unusual. Lead wire was cut to length, then formed in a die and plated with a copper alloy. The company only operated for a few years and their cartridges are too scarce to shoot today."
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