[Lone Star]

Pistolsmith:

I've seen your posts on Nambus and a couple of other items, and I think I may know who you are. And I have three questions!

Did you once write a gunsmithing column for, "Gunsport"? Does your first name begin with "J"?

If so, I want you to know that I still recall (and am amused by) your response to the reader who asked your help with his "spacemin" of a certain gun. The gunsmith replied that he thought that a "spacemin" must be an Italian astronaut...not a "specimen" of something.

Your advice usually seems right on, and often covers issues not previously addressed. I'm one of the most knowledgeable people I know concerning guns, and had never known until you pointed it out that the Japanese loaded hotter Nambu ammo after 1928 than before. But they certainly still used older Nambu designs in WW II. How, if the ammo was too hot? Not being smart-alec; I'm curious.

Lone Star

[Gordon]

Yes thats who you think it is; and a cantankerous old codger is he . He knows more 'real' stuff about 1911's than anybody else alive I'll bet. And then there are Lugers and Nambus about which he wrote the book.:)Try: Parabellum9@aol.com

[Lone Star]

Thanks, Gordon!

Lone Star

[Pistolsmith]

Actually, my biography here on the High Road tells it all:
Thesightshop.org
There were some early pistols used in he second war, but the more modern ammo was not used in them. Ammo specifically loaded for them was still available. After the war, the ammo company loaded up a large quantity of ammo for the T-14 pistols still in use by the Japanese Coast Guard.
I was in the Army Ordnance Corps and was stationed in Sugita, near the Yokosuka navy base very soon after the end of the war and off and on through the Korean war.