Murata Type 22
This One’s for the Boxers
Continuing along with the series of hopelessly outdated Japanese rifles, I bring you the Meiji 22 Murata and its Carbine variant. The Type 22 series was adopted on the twenty-second year of Meiji’s reign, also known as 1889; and while I’m afraid that information on these rifles is far more limited than for their Arisaka brethren, I believe to have shown them in an acceptable light. The rifle fired the first smokeless cartridge invented by Japan, which was the 8x53R Murata – a pretty darn sizable cartridge, as were all infantry standard cartridges of the day, basically every single one would give your shoulder a good hard knocking. As with the Type 13, these were pretty much hopelessly outdated by the time of the Russo-Japanese War, instead favoring the Type 30 Arisaka, one could still see these pop up from time to time, although most were converted to training rifles. Before that point you could see them used in the first Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion. Certainly last-ditch Japanese soldiers and civilians would’ve been using these during the final days of the Second World War as well, though that would’ve been in extremely rare cases.
- Includes two rifles, the Murata Type 22 and Murata Type 22 Carbine
Murata Type 22
- 140 Damage
- 8-round internal magazine
- 64 cartridges in reserve
Murata Type 22 Carbine
- 120 Damage
- Lower muzzle velocity
- Greater knockback potential
- Faster cycling rate
- 5-round internal magazine
- 64 cartridges in reserve
Audio:
- Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
- Verdun
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- Kommissar’s super awesome Meiji Skins
- My Anthro Shark
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