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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WoodsCraft" data-source="post: 4389506" data-attributes="member: 51836"><p>My grandfather was in Japan  during the occupation from 45 - 48  and told me stories about the defacing being anything from punches to grinding to file marks , my point behind saying that is that the ground off mums were not just the rifles that were imported into the US by surplus dealers.   I remember him telling me  they had a depot with piles of arisakas that you could goto and pick a rifle from to send home as a war trophy .   The better stuff was usually held back for officers from what he told me.</p></blockquote><p></p>