Japanese shotgun?????

sheepherder · 04-30-2017, 11:50 AM

Bill, Teri, and I have been exchanging emails on this shotgun. There is also a US collector interested in details of it. There seems to be a Japanese WWII web site called 'Banzai'.

I don't know why, but I had not really noticed that this was a double-barrel shotgun. That makes the bayonet attachment much more complicated than I had realized.

I'm somewhat confused/amused that any nation expecting imminent invasion would bother fixing bayonets to any weapon.

Although I inagine the shotgun blast would make it easier to withdraw the bayonet...

04-30-2017, 11:50 AM	#11
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