Ed:
I feel better about asking the question now. I've watched enough CSI to definitely agree with #1 and #2.
It is also obiously likely that many of the military bringbacks were taken by force or battlefield pickups and would have easily been bloodstained, maybe for quite some time prior to pickup.
A possibly blood soaked holster, or holster holding the gun with blood on it, hadn't occurred to me at all. As a new collector, I am quick to make assumptions. Pitting is pitting and affects the condition of the piece, regardless of the description or cause, but since I encounter the description so often I thought it warranted asking.
Another thought: if a gun did have blood stains or marks on it, it is not possible to know that the cause wasn't something else, absent a first hand account from a vet.
The battlefield pickup stories are definitely part of the alure to some of these guns, so I guess I need to give these sellers a break. After all, they are attempting to sell...
Clark
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My militaria collection is dedicated to the memory of my Grandfather, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Dave Hill, Jr., wounded in action at The Assault of the Second Marine Division on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, 20-23 November, 1943. http://www.tarawa1943.com/pages/casualties%20tarawa.htm
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