Anybody have photos of these "blown up" late war rifles? Any hard to dispute evidence at all? A friend picked up a collection of over three hundred Japaneseicon rifles some years back that included everything from matchlocks on up to the rope slinged late war rifles and even one of those experimental oversized cast iron receiver jobs. It looked kinda scary, but all the other "modern" stuff was shot at least a little. I forget how many I ended up getting out of that lot, but it's mostly the more prosaic examples.

There's likely more "exploded" Model 700s out in the world than Arisakas! Have seen several of the former and none of the latter.