Japanese Type 100 Paratrooper
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The Type 100 (sometimes called the Type 0) was one of the initial Japanese experiments in paratroop rifles. Manufactured from standard Nagoya Arsenal Type 99 rifles, the Type 100 used a set of interrupted lugs at the chamber to allow the rifle to be broken into two short sections. Only a few hundred of these were manufactured for testing, and ultimately the Type 2 design (with a locking wedge) was adopted instead.
2:46 Ian just casually ignoring the ghost of a Japanese paratrooper
that scares the shit outta me!
It's a disciplined and well mannered rifle! Ian was saying "they kinda of all FALL" and the rifle fell, obeying the order! :D
Lol
@Stanley Jedrzejczyk not so terrifying, they were people too
i like how the deer heads behind Ian are just looking at him too
"I SAWED THIS GUN IN HALF! AND REPAIRED IT WITH ONLY FLEX TAPE!"
Now THATISALOTOFDAMAGE!
"The benefit you get from being able to take this off during a jump is far outweighed by the likelihood of losing the bolt handle and being screwed."
HA! Unintentional threading pun!
Unintentional puns are the punniest of puns!
+Irondrone4 fuuuck you!! XD
lol
+Irondrone4 that struck me like a Bolt of "Lightening"......waiting for it..........
+Andrew Kincade lol
Great presentation. Back in the mid 70s in old Sacramento, there was a closed down bar that was going thru remodeling. They found an Arisaka rifle hanging on wall just in back of the bar counter. My cousin was able to take it home because no body wanted it. It so happened to be one of those type 100 Para models. It was sold at the local Road Runner Gun Show for only $600 bucks. Wonder where is it now.
Sacramento? Isn't that in California? I wouldn't be surprised (though saddened) if it was taken to a gun buyback/confiscation.
@@sumvs5992 if the person who bought it was smart they got out of cali far before the 2000s
@@manny1659 this is such a sad convo because it makes me realize they’re destroying beautiful guns faster than I can find them );
$600 was a LOT of money in the mid-1970s. It is probably equivalent to $1,200 today. In 2022 six-hundred dollars is still a lot of money. One does not simply fork over $600 within thinking long and hard about it. The person who paid $600 cold, hard, cash for that Type 100 paratrooper Arisaka knew what he was purchasing. The person who sold the break-down rifle must have also been aware of its true collector value, otherwise he could have been gulled into selling it for $50.
Bolt action rifles below 50 bmg are entirely legal in California
Germany: Let's make a scoped, automatic rifle with a high rate of fire for our paratroopers.
Japan: Meh, take this bolt action rifle and saw it in two.
NANI?
TO DEMONSTRATE THE POWER OF BANZI, I SAWED THIS RIFLE IN HALF
@@grahamlopez6202 NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE
@@metalhead1027 Enola gay: HOW BOUT A LITTLE MORE
Graham Lopez *bombs Pearl Harbor*
the blank reaction as the rifle falls over and he doesn't miss a beat. I'm genuinely impressed. that would have scared the shit out of me.
So, you unscrew the bolt handle and throw it at the enemy to end him rightly?
Dragon7722 yes
How many more quotes until this becomes and official meme? xD
You really just made that joke. I appreciate That
You have no clue how much of a meme it already is
Skallagrim viewers are everywhere.
But then again, if you're into guns, you're probably into swords and spears too...
My (deceased) uncle had one of these though it may have been a type 2. My dad told me that he and his brothers would have to walk miles to a store to special order 7.7 Norma ammo when they were kids. He used it for deer. I really wish I knew where it was along with my grandfather's guns...
Man, the kind of stories that thing could tell... How did it get here? An equally elite American soldier pry it from the dead hands of a Japanese Paratrooper? Perhaps instead it was traded for? Or perhaps someone just picked it as a worthy prize from a pile of weapons surrendered at war's end. The tangible connection with the past is one of the great appeals of arms, to me.
Me too, especially the war trophies brought home from Japan as they are often very historical, past from father to son to take to war and fight for the emperor.
+Nazistazia the German Princess post a small video displaying the rifle on your channel please!
To my knowledge, I don't think these were deployed in any large numbers. The most likely case, as mundane as it is, is that a large stockpile was found of them and these made their way to collectors/trophy hunters.
All the major Japanese drops occurred in 1942, and all coincided with successful offensives of the early portion of the war. As with the German fallschimjager, IJA and IJN airborne units were largely utilised as elite light infantry for the rest of the war. Toward the the end of the war, the surviving personnel were heavily deployed as giretsu kukeitai, and armed with type 100 smgs. I doubt that more than a handful of these rifles were ever fired in anger. I mean, it might be plausible that one or two was issued to the giretsu, however it seems vastly more likely that it was simply removed from a capture armory after surrender. As such, I sadly doubt it has much of a story to tell.
@@nolanolivier6791 the fact that this gun looks as good as new, no scratches in the wood, nothing you'd see on a used rifle, even a used hunting rifle. So from that alone I doubt this gun has every seen anything besides the factory, and maybe an armory or two, followed probably by storage spaces.
Why are you selling this, it's clearly broken. Its in two pieces for the Emperor's sake.
Thanks to Japan, I cannot tell if this comment has Sake(Saakay) or Sake(saakk)
@Joe Ç r/ireadreddittoo
@@gunargundarson1626
r/ijustsaywhooshnotr/whoosh
Its not broken
The rifle can be split into two
@@jurinahkorup2628 stupid
Ian you put out a lot of great quality content. Thank you for doing what you do. Lunch break at work wouldn't be the same without you.
Imagine finding a Japanese paratrooper with a twig instead of a bolt handle on his rifle
The real question is: can it still fire when separated?
Yes. It can.
Sawed-off bolt action rifle
@@ebinnisti1769 japaneese obrez
That seems like a terribly poor idea
@@secretbaguette the first rule of firearms is to have fun
I've got an idea, hear me out because it's kinda crazy, but, to make the bolt handle less obtrusive why not bend it down, yeah I know it sounds extreme, but surely it would work.
Very dishonorable
How do you torture someone without a curved bolt though, smh.
Turning… Down bolt handles? No, it could never work. What mad man turns down a short rifle bolt handle? Clearly making a threaded bolt is the only practical solution.
I want to sit down with who designed a threaded bolt handle and ask him what the fuck were you thinking
@@box8524 wouldn't shock me if the Japanese were working on a bolt handle that doubled as a Pear of Anguish. 😂
I don’t understand why they didn’t just give the rifle a bent bolt knob instead of that finicky threaded one.
I don't know why as well
i kinda wanna see it fire without the barrel lol.
Yeah I imagine a big fireball.
I think It Had a Safety Pin that can only fire with it locked
Not to be a Boomer
OBREZ!!!!!
@@digitaal_boog Ōburezū (?
Can you say "fireball and ruptured eardrums"?
Thank Ian for a great review. Some trivia, the Arisaka 100 model 2 (Wedge) take-down Paratroop rifle has appeared in the following movies 1962 - Manchurian Candidate; 1968 - The Split; 1968 Hawaii Five-O S7-E17, Twilight Zone S4-E10, 1971 - Dirty Harry; 1973 - The Spook Who Sat by the Door; 1975 - The Deadly Tower; 1978 - Cleopatra Jones. Thank you, Greg
I had a chance to pick one of these up for $1200 a couple months ago, really wishing I had.
Oh man... Regret of a lifetime!
2:40 : Type 100 is shocked and dishonored by revelation that it doesn't have it's own honorable serial range and commits seppuku.
I note that the locking lugs are bevelled to make reassembly as easy and fast as possible.
sick, now I can put my nerf modulus barrel extension on it
BASED
One of the coolest ever featured
saw the preview pic and tought "omg ian broke an auction gun and had to buy it"
Great review, thankyou. I have a type 2 arisaka paratrooper rifle in absolutely mint condition. The bolt that secures front & rear section stays within the metal frame, cannot be dropped or lost. Very accurate rifle. Caliber is 7.7 x 58. 🖐 🇦🇺
I've handled a similar rifle. It came apart similarly but to keep it together you screwed a bolt on the side in. It was a type 99, no clue what exactly it was but it looked right.
This is the same rifle that Scorpio used in Dirty Harry.
Dutch_Atlantic_13 yes, but sporterized and rebarrelled for .30-06
Man I saw you comment on a birdman video.
His was pimped with carrying case , Scorpio had loaded model .
Look in the case he carried had the mp 40 also packed in that case .
Stock: falls over
Ian: "fuck it, we won't do another take!"
Train your paratroopers to guard their bolt handles with their lives and keep them in a place where it'll be the last thing to lose in a jump. Also, issue each soldier with a common machine-screw that has the same thread (cost about a penny each) and will work as a bolt handle in a pinch, and train them to also take better care of that than their grandmother, but to keep it somewhere else.
Problem solved, and you still have a detachable bolt handle.
From all of the Japanese WW2 history I've researched the type 100 was the 8mm submachine gun while the type 99 short rifle, type 99 long rifle, type 2 paratrooper rifle (takedown type 99) and the type 99 sniper were all bolt action rifles chambered in 7.7mm.
I believe I’ve seen something similar to one of these at the Cody Firearms Museum, verry cool
You'd figure they'd just do the sensible thing and bend the bolt handle downwards rather than go through the trouble of making a new threaded one that could easily be lost.
(And if bending wasn't an option: cut it off at a ~20 degree angle, rotate 180 degrees, weld back together)
Yeah you'd think even for a prototype, a bent bolt handle would be easier and cheaper to make.
+ToastyMozart Or if they have the patience to do so : foldable bolt handle
+Coco Before Ian unscrewed the bolt handle: I guessed it might have been a pull out and fold type, similar to some semi-auto charging handles.
Jeff NME Same.
+Heinrich Berndovsky
which I will say again is a nonsensical claim, since these were meant to be stacked & packed into Containers, hence the need for taking the handle off, so you can cram as many in side by side as possible.
God, I love Imperial Japanese weaponry. I want to own a Type 99 someday. The only thing that scares me is finding ammunition for it
I have one. Invest in reloading. Buying online is reliable because stores only stock maybe twice a year. Save the casings
@@brodens6801 how much was yours? Im wondering how much one with an intact armory marking would cost
The Japanese soldiers did afew field modifications to their guns, one of which was to remove the dust-cover, since it had a tendency to rattle, as the rifle got battleworn. Thought I'd mention it, since it hasn't been mentioned so far in any video I've seen from Ian yet, concerning Japanese Weapons.
Ya ur right, I've seen about a dozen Arisakas in stores and gun shows- never personally seen a dust cover.
Got one of these at a yard sale today very cheap. It’s super cool, especially when you think about how old these guns are and how they still function
Your channel is awesome. Thank you for taking the time to show us all these cool obscure firearms most of us would never see or know. Much appreciated.
I never heard about Japanese paratroopers. Interesting.
2:47
How professional of him.
Very interresting as always. Keep up the good work, love what you do.
And to end your opponent rightly, you should unscrew the bolt handle and throw it at him.
this guy knows how it's done
No bayonet attached? Surprising...
Dishonorable
Guess the HQ were sick of all their soldiers committing seppuku.
Type 2 of that rifle was used in The first Dirty Harry movie, as the baddie's sniping rifle. (all sporterized of course)
Yo, that's quality info right there! Thank you sir
Very interesting design. I need to pick up a paratrooper sometime. Awesome video like always thanks for the info!
Hmmm.... Im really really late to the video i know but i thought the whole idea of a paratrooper regiment/platoon was to jump behind enemy lines and secure strategic objectives (if possible) and if youre jumping behind enemy lines - those enemies wont give you 2-3 mins for you to assemble your weapon and fire at them when you land. Youre supposed to be ready to fight the moment you hit the ground.
if you need to assemble your weapon when you land, unless youre part of an MG crew, then you might as well be unarmed.
You are assuming that the basic notion of parachute operations was to drop in to defended areas. That is not the case. When it DID happen it tended to lead to paras being slaughtered. (Crete/St Mere Eglise) Just being "behind enemy lines" does NOT imply immediate proximity of enemy troops. The vast majority of, say, D Day parachute operations were not conducted "under fire".
Digging the Japanese hardware. Thanks Ian!
A good way to negate that risk of losing the bolt handle is one of two ways. One, put a threading bit in one of the take down areas of the gun, which you can screw the handle onto in order to prevent yourself from losing it. Two, make the butt stock a hinge, and put a recess in there to screw the handle into, leaving a decent amount of space around where the knob would be so you can easily grab it and rotate it to unthread it, and pop it back in place.
ah yes a bolt-action pistol with a barrel extension
Lol
The liberals will have his ass
Wonder why they didn't just crank the bolt handle so it lay flush with the rifle.
Also, I suspect anyone bidding on this might have some familiar competition.
I'm curious why this one was not adopted over the Type 2. Aside from the bolt handle, it looks quite good.
I believe this was the weapon that was used in the original “ The Manchurian candidate “?
Yes, it was. It was also the gun that the "Scorpio Killer" used in the movie Dirty Harry, starring Clint Eastwood.
The interrupted thread seems a much better idea than a wedge (with all respect to Sam Colt). I wonder if that decision was simply for budget or ease of manufacture.
Very interesting Rifle and video.
My great grandfather fought at the Invasion of Saipan and carried a captured Arisaka in addition to his M1928A1 Thompson.
Were there no markings/numbers to ensure the two matching pieces were always assembled together? Somewhere to stow the bolt handle head when unscrewed would have been good, too.
Yeah I don't think you'd want to go mixing up halves, doubt they'd lock up perfectly.
I'll use this for things. just cut stuff in half and out back together when I need it. like a car or something
I saw one of these take down rifles in Houston the other day, can't entirely say for sure it was a Type 0 or Type 2.
Anyone know why the Japanese named their guns with a "Type" prefix?
They used the word "shake", which has become understood as "type" in English, but is better translated as "model".
Forgotten Weapons thanks, could not really find anything online about this so this is helpful.
I Only Watch Anime Ironically 式 "shiki" means "form", "style", or "system". Though tbh idk why they didnt use 風 more often...wrong social connotation for the era i guess
lesslighter ahh thanks for that insight. I always considered 風 to be more like "style", along the lines of "[insert designer/company] style rifle" or "[insert anything] style clothes" (e.g. 和風、洋風) though i suppose despite being more natural to think and say, 風 isnt official enough especially for military weapons.
Chinese and North Koreans also use it on military hardware, translated from the same character 式 (shì in Mandarin, 식/sik in Korean).
I'm Japanese This gus is amazing
(¯―¯٥) 二式テラと呼ばれていた、挺身隊用の小銃のようですね
It seems to be a rifle for the parachute unit, which was called the Type 2 Terra.
I do not understand why they did not just used a turned down bolt handle. It is a good compromise between the two options they had. I imagine it would have made manufacturing easier and cheaper needing only one piece for the bolt handle instead of two.
BASlade93 Issue the paratroopers pistol carbines!
Yeah that's a terrible idea, but it'd be pretty nifty for the 30s and 40s.
Dust cover MAY have been removed on purpose (noisy). There were places where noise could get you killed before dust got you killed.
God I wish I had enough to bid on this peice, what a beautiful weapon.
Beautiful? I reckon about as much thought was put into this post as was put into this piece of shit rifle.
@DH that is one of the most ignorant things I've read in a very long time. 🤦♂️😂
@DH lmfao you're one of the worst trolls I have ever seen, honest!
Alas, I still stand by my original comment though.
@DH 😂😂😂😂😂
The b8, it's not that gr8 in this thread 😂
Does that mean you can remove the front barrel and one-hand a Type 100 while parachuting?
That world be badass
5:09 Bless you
Thanks Ian. Will you be doing a video on the Type 2 paratrooper rifle anytime soon?
This is probably a slightly silly question but I noticed the gas relief hole. Is that something that would be spewing hot gasses when the gun fires, like the sides of a revolver? Would a soldier need to remember to keep that hole from pointing in close proximity to anything important?
+Naomi Nekomimi That hole is a safety measure - if you should have a cartridge case rupture, the gas will vent out that hole rather than traveling back along the bolt and venting into the shooter's face. Early cartridge production was more susceptible to that type of failure, and designing mechanisms to safeguard the shooter was an important part of early bolt action rifle design. For example, it is one of the major shortcomings with the German Gewehr 88, leading to its replacement with the Mauser Model 98.
Forgotten Weapons Oh, that's super interesting! Thank you for the response.
+Naomi Nekomimi "Cat Ear"?
Andrew Kincade Nekomimi is the term for humans who have cat features, generally ears but often tails and such. My nickname is Mimi and I love cats, so it fits.
Naomi Nekomimi ah! I see! I love the Kitties too! Arigato Gozaimasu!
man oh man. I have a last ditch (entirely too nice to have seen battle) and a perfectly neglected who knows Frankenstein with the "Mum" that will be a deer hunter next year. I love Japanese battle rifles my friend and that is damn cool...
After I bought a Ruger PC carbine, I was looking for a historical precedent, and simply had to look through Forgotten Weapons TH-cam catalog.
Do you thin this could be safely fired while only using the butt/receiver section?
I was looking for a new video to on your rifle and when I opens your channel this video was just uploaded. coincidence i think not!!!!
Those black elk are freaking me the hell out.
Many Japanese soldiers I understand, threw away the dust covers due to them rattling, thus making noise. The concept is of course good. However in the field it doesn’t always work out. I gave a Type -99 with dust cover bayonet, to the Airborne Special Operations museum in Fayetteville, in 2000, just before I retired. It was given to me by a WW-2 veteran buddy of my dad and a friend of mine also. I didn’t wish to see it lost after I am gone. Also I included the veteran’s name and WW-2 record.👍😊🇺🇸
Alright we're all thinking it so I'll ask, how many soldiers do yall think tried firing it without putting the barrel on?
I can imagine the people coming up with this.
"Folding stocks are only for the weak. We shall jump with our guns in pieces! Not like they might be needed instantly on landing."
Still, quite an amusing idea, but one might worry about the gun just flying apart during firing. Veryy strong latches or not.
+Attila Rischt It's not a good idea to land under the ennemy's firing lines anyway.
In that case it would be even better if your rifle was in one piece :D
+iotaje1 Nah, it's cool, just fix bayonets before the jump. You'll be fine; just stab the enemy to death when you land.
chibani Well, my friend, that's the risk you have to take when you're committing to a bayonet charge. Sometimes when you want to stab someone with a gun, you might fall to your death first.
chibani AND I SHALL RIDE TO VALHALLA!!! SHINY AND CHROME!!!
awesome video. I'm lucky enough to own a type 2 with mum and low serial#
another great use is that you can play drums and if someone comes to fight you, put them together and defend yourself....
🤣
2:50 Well played :)
I want to know if the rifle can be fired, while in half.
idk why but i laughed when the rear part fell XD
Interestingly the Germans developed paratroop rifles the other way round:
First there were folding stock versions of the Gew 33/40 and Kar 98k. Then they developed a take-down version Kar 98k.
I came into 2 paratroopers which I still own. I gave 3k for one and 150 for the other. They are numbers matching but the first has no mum and the latter has the stock cut down and the bore drilled out to about 35 caliber and is smooth bore but has it's mum. I'm sourcing a reproduction fore end for it but it has been hard. i'm not willing take the fore end off the complete one because un staking the screws would ruin the value. We have a donor barrel and are going to turn the chamber end and headspace it for function. I have pics on gunboards.com. It's been a years and years long project.
One of these rifles was used in the Dirty Henry movie
The Royal Hunt Collection?
More like The Imperial Hunt Collection
the really ninja-thing here is that paratroopers were reaally meant to fight some PLANES with this bolt-action crap somehow
Why would they need to fight planes???
Joey Van Der Vaart because planes would fight them
@@dsheshin planes dont usually attack infantry unless they are in a close air support role, and you cant really fight CSA without AA or friendly aircraft
Every other country: oooo look I made a folding stock!
Japan: idk just saw the whole thing in half we'll make it work
This is what the German Fallschirmjager troops needed, a rifle that could be broken down into two parts and carried with the paratrooper. The Germans never thought to emulate the Japanese break-down bolt action rifle and continued to drop the rifles in a separate container. More likely, the Germans would have turned their noses down at the thought of adopting anything from Japan, even though they were wartime allies.
Adapting the excellent German Kar 98k bolt action rifle to the Japanese-style breakdown action would have made a difference for the Luftwaffe's paratroopers in large-scale airborne operations like, Mercury, the invasion of Crete. Fallschirmjager parachuted, according to German doctrine, armed only with semi-automatic pistols while their main infantry weapons landed in separate, protective, metal canisters. Precious time was lost as landed Fallschirmjager struggled out of their parachutes and desperately sought their weapon cannisters while under withering British .303 rifle and machine gun fire.
Hell they could have just given them submachine guns with folding stocks, of which they had plenty. Searching for containers that could have blown off course / in the dark / lost in trees etc seems insane by modern standards.
I feel like interrupted threads is a lost art form in firearm manufacturing. Many designs could be drastically improved and made more user friendly by simply using this technique.
Why would they stop appearing on firearms if it wasn't an antiquated design?
I prefer the type 38, but would take a 100 if I had a chance.
You should check if the chrysanthemum is still under the metal band where the type 99 marking is partially blocked as I doubt they would have removed that metal band and it would have had one when new as a standard rifle from the factory
That gun is awesome. My EDC from now on.
could the receiver part of the rifle be fired without the barrel? i understand the bullet would have no rifling and would probably not fly anywhere close to straight but i'd still be worried if someone pointed it at me
No, because the chamber is also on the barrel section.
I see :) thanks
I was always under the impression that the Type 100 was the Imperial Japanese SMG chambered in 8x22 Nambu.
The type designation just indicates the year of adoption. Just like the US has an M1 rifle, M1 carbine, M1 submachine gun, and so on, the Japanese have multiple Type 100 weapons (as well as Type 99s, for that matter).
Japan had quite a few designation systems with various issues, but the Type one is usually relatively straightfoward. Generally consider the word Type as interchangeable with Year. Japanese calendar was based on the founding of the Empire in 660B.C. "Type 97 Chi-Ha" (the tank) is "type 2597 Medium-3" or "Medium tank model 3 of 1937" for example. But their were also light tanks, fighters, bombers, rifles and more developed that year, all being Type 97s. Its actually survived the war (albeit under the new calendar that came with the U.S. occupation) as can be seen in the Type (19)61, 74, 90, and (20)10 tank lineage (not aure if its still in small arms, i dont follow those so closely)
they didn't think to turn down the bolt handle ?
I'm curious why they didn't just shorten the barrel and stock... It's paratroopers, not regular infantry, they're meant to create a tripping hazard for an enemy big enough for regular infantry to come up later and hold.
Would having a folding/removable stock not have been a better idea? Seems like it would have been less complex than splitting the rifle halfway down its length.
Correct me if I'm being stupid obviously.
they did thats wht did get in service later on
@@gabber88ful what?
They should have made the bolt handle fold toward the shooter and lock to the side of the rifle
That is cool. Clever idea for a paratrooper's rifle.
So I have a question.. we found one and has the mum still on it very well seen better than the one in any videos I've seen.. how much are these worth?
Rock Island sold one last year for $2600
tHE BOLT HANDLE CAN BE USED AS A BUTTPLUG AND YA'LL CAN'T CHANGE MY MIND
Those Stags in the background aren't naturally really that dark are they ?! Surely they've been touched up and painted a bit darker colour