I'm guessing it was done, as by someone following "the book"? Sort of like taking brand new rifles, soaking them in hot cosmoline, then shipping them to a base somewhere, for recruits to clean up as soon as they arrived.
Charlie
Charlie,
"Targeting" was an Ordnance requirement. They didn't become government property until they passed the targeting test, then the Ordnance acceptance emblem was stamped on the stock.