Indian captured Pakistan No.4 rifle pictures

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Once in awhile an odd ball shows up. This weekend I found this 1960 production POF (Pakistan Ordnance Factory) which has matching numbers including magazine. All original serial numbers have been lined out and the manufactures mark, "P 60" has also been struck out. New matching serial numbers with a CPJ suffix have been added to all normal serial number locations including the magazine. The forestock has the "Indian" transverse screw.

Pakistan and India have had dust ups since 1965 and the biggest was December 3-16 1971. The cancellation of the other guy's markings and substituing your own has been encounted with other arms/countries. I have a Russian Nagant sniper rifle from Vietnam (with capture papers) that has had all Russian markings lined out on metal and wood.

This is all guess work but I think reasonable. I wonder what is the significance of the CPJ suffix. Probably a unique series developed by the bean counters to account for captured and reused material.

I wonder if Pakistan captures one back, will they change the serial numbers back? If this goes on for a few more iterations, there will not be enought metal available for the new serial numbers!

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