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As Neffi got to&nbsp;first, the Whatzis this week was a Japanese rifle, the Type 18 Murata.&nbsp; This was the second version of Murata rifle of the three Japan would eventually adopt - the Types 13, 18, and 22.

This is one of three Winchesters in Castle service.&nbsp; One being our Winchester-built M1 Garand, the second being the M97&nbsp;trench gun,&nbsp;the last being the Murata.&nbsp; Well, okay, Winchester neither designed nor manufactured (at least not directly) the Murata.&nbsp; But it was built at the Tokyo Arsenal on Winchester-supplied machinery.

The Murata Type 13 was&nbsp;adopted in 1880, the&nbsp;13th year of the&nbsp;Meiji Restoration (hence the Type 13 moniker).&nbsp;&nbsp;The rifle was designed by Major Tsuneyoshi Murata and it was Japan's first&nbsp;locally&nbsp;designed and produced standard infantry rifle of the post-muzzleloading era.&nbsp; As was true for a&nbsp;lot of rifle designs in the&nbsp;period of transition&nbsp;from black-powder muzzle loaders to small-bore smokeless powder cartridge weapons&nbsp;it borrowed heavily from the major European rifles then in regular service, something the United States did during this era as well.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Comment from Neffi on 2009-03-15</title>
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                Yay! Send the cash prize to the usual address!
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