FN Browning Auto-5 with extended tubular magazine as Japanese BP/Event weapons

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Guys, I just found a Japanese hunting catalog from 1937. Japan’s FN Browning Auto-5 has it’s own unique extended magazine for it, it was designed by Masana Takahashi(高橋眞七), the owner of Takahashi gun shop(高橋銃砲店).With this extension magazine tube, you can load 8 rounds in the magazine and 1 in the chamber.
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This 9-shot 12-gauge FN Browning Auto-5 is also infamous for Tsuyama massacre, Mutsuo Toi (都井 睦雄),a 21-year-old man who killed 30 people with shotgun and melee weapons in 21 May 1938.He did purchased this gun at Takahashi gun shop.

Mutsuo Toi ( 5 March 1917 – 21 May 1938)
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The 9-shot FN Browning shotgun he used
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Since this modification is made from Japan , it would be an interesting option. Japan would be the only country that has large capacity shotgun.

Do you want to see this weapon in the future?

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Do you want to received this unique weapon as BP or event weapons?

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Why tf can you chose two options on a yes and no poll?

As for the weapon itself I dont want one of the rare event/BP items japan does get wasted on a shotgun which will perform just as bad as the rest of the shotguns ingame.

If it was for the US then having an event item that isnt special isnt a big deal but for japan it means nothing new will be added for another half year with the current pase of events japan gets.

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I would like to point out that these tube extensions for the Auto 5 were not unique to Japan at the time.

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I would like to have him in TT

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I mean this type of magazine extension kit wasn’t imported. It’s designed by the gun shop’s owner.“考案者” means inventor in Japanese.
By the way, do you have any information about pre war tube extensions for the Auto 5, I tried to search about it, but I only get pictures of post-war tube tube extensions.

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They have better option for TT, I just wrote a topic about Japanese hunting weapons in 1899.Here’s what they had.

Winchester 1893 pump action shotgun(12 gauge 6-shot)
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Winchester 1887(10 gauge/12 gauge 6-shot)
The barrel is longer(32-inch) than the BP one(20-inch).
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Burgess folding shotgun(12 gauge 6-shot)
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Here’s the topic, I already uploaded the original 1899th catalog’s link in it.

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