Jap snipers shotgun

mr.big-a

Does any one know about a Jap single shot 28 ga. shotgun? Have not seen it yet, but a friend has one caputred in WW11. He is wondering if its rare and its value.Thanks, Jerry

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v35

There's an Ithaca 12ga double with a Japanese bayonet attached, in the Ithaca Gun Co museum. It was captured from a sniper shot out of a tree in WW2.

modoc

A 28 would hardly qualify as a sniper round but could have been used as a forager gun. They probably used them to add fresh meat to their riceballs.Read about "rice wine" it contains whole mice,5 to a bottle.Sounds like the 1000 year old eggs.MAN O MAN what a diet. It's no wonder they would rather die than go back to that stuff.We helped them as often as was possible.[This message has been edited by modoc (edited 12-10-2001).]

davem3

It has been a while but one was in the shop for an appraisal - I was told it was around 30 guage as a 28 ga. would not fit and was made up on the Murata single shot action and stock.