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Doubs · 09-02-2003, 11:06 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Jim Keenan:
AFAIK, no substantial quantities of Japanese ammo were ever imported. During the early occupation, GI's were allowed to pick over Japanese arms depots and take weapons (these are the ones with ground crests - unground crests indicate captured weapons), but the ammo was destroyed.
Jim<hr /></blockquote>I have a 6.5 rifle with ground mum that was picked up from the battlefield on Okinawa. My uncle, an NCO, was in an infantry unit assigned to battlefield clean-up about the time fighting ceased on Okinawa and he sent approximately a dozen rifles home. He gave me the last one he had and a bayonet for it. IIRC, he said that every rifle he sent home had had the mum ground off IAW Army directives. IMO, the mum is not a positive means of determining how a rifle was acquired.

There was some surplus Japanese 6.5mm ammo imported about 1960 and sold by "Ye Olde Hunter" (Interarms Corp.) for $5 a hundred. I fired a couple of hundred rounds of it. I haven't seen any surplus Japanese ammo since except the machinegun ammo already mentioned.

09-02-2003, 11:06 AM	#8
Doubs User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Byron, Georgia Posts: 1,736 Thanks: 819 Thanked 1,769 Times in 586 Posts	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Jim Keenan: <strong>AFAIK, no substantial quantities of Japanese ammo were ever imported. During the early occupation, GI's were allowed to pick over Japanese arms depots and take weapons (these are the ones with ground crests - unground crests indicate captured weapons), but the ammo was destroyed. Jim</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">I have a 6.5 rifle with ground mum that was picked up from the battlefield on Okinawa. My uncle, an NCO, was in an infantry unit assigned to battlefield clean-up about the time fighting ceased on Okinawa and he sent approximately a dozen rifles home. He gave me the last one he had and a bayonet for it. IIRC, he said that every rifle he sent home had had the mum ground off IAW Army directives. IMO, the mum is not a positive means of determining how a rifle was acquired. There was some surplus Japanese 6.5mm ammo imported about 1960 and sold by "Ye Olde Hunter" (Interarms Corp.) for $5 a hundred. I fired a couple of hundred rounds of it. I haven't seen any surplus Japanese ammo since except the machinegun ammo already mentioned.