This is the last one I have. It is the only one I have ever had that had no damage to the crest. I even put the white (well it used to be white) stuff in it to show it off. It was the one I said in one of the other posts was given to me by a friend of mine. His older brother send it back from Iwo Jima, I think he said, and he said he had dispatched the Japanese soldier that he took it off. It is pretty rough shape. It has a few bad hits on the stock.......looks like a bullet hole in the buttstock and the front has a big chunk knocked out, as well as a couple of other bad places, including what looks like hack marks in one area almost like blade hits. The finish is rougher than the others and the safety at the end of the bolt doesn't look as finished as most I have seen. I didn't get a good picture of the serial number, but it has one......just the metal is very rough finish. I guess it must be one made near the end, but I don't know if it qualifies as a "last ditch", which I have heard used to describe late made ones. What can you tell me about it? In some ways it is the worst one I have.
Thanks,
Ron
Thanks,
Ron
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