First post went a little off track. This is from a WWll vet. (my first father in law) that brought a Jap rifle and ammo back from the Pacific. It's been 50 years now I don't remember if it was 6.5 or 7.7 MM ammo, but he had both wooden and paper bullet ammo. He said the marines told him the paper was laced with poison. The story on the wood bullets was that the Jap snipers would shoot them into trees as a distraction (made a sound like a rifle shot when they hit the tree) also they were "less lethal" theory being that a wounded soldier required attention of several people to get him off the battle field. I can't prove any of this, but he was there and did that as they say. He was a merchant marine and said only time he fired a shot in anger was the evening a Jap "Betty" bomber tried to sneak in a low level bombing run past the fan tail of his cargo ship. He was a country boy that could shoot, the betty took 17 of 20 rds. from a 20 rd. mag. from his 20MM AA gun before it crashed on the island they were delivering cargo to.
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