Rick, I think the Japaneseicon didn't make a copy until 1945. You must remember the Japanese High Command was very old and very conservative and a bit slow. Also no after action reports made it out of the many island battles and Japanese had no real idea of the damage a Garandicon could inflict. The High Command's vision of the battlefield was very cloudy. The early (1942) PI losses were not the fault of the Garand, just as any "victories" weren't the result of the Garand. You must remember a rather small Japanese Army defeated a rather large combined US/PI force. Just too complicated for 1-2 sentences to expalin. Suffice it to say, without a large supply of 8 round clips, the Garand was in trouble.