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They never dumped them...that is an old wives tale. They don't clank around when on the proper rifle. I have several of them with the original dust covers and they make absolutely no difference in sound when properly installed on the rifle.
IF the Japanese did remove them, they certainly would not have just thrown them away! There has been talk about the Japanese removing them during the end of the war for scrap drives, but again, that has been nothing but pure speculation. Logistically, it would be quite a feat to take all of those dust covers to the homeland for scrap.
I'm sticking with what the pros say about it. The majority of them were removed by American GIs when the bolts were removed to ship them home.
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