My guess is that they were carried in garrison and training, and dropped only twice: Once in the 6 Day War and once in the Yom Kippur War. Egypt is not known for doing much of anything with it's military, other than terrorizing it's own folks and losing to the Israeli's now and then. Nobody else ever used them.
As for the Swedes: They never fought with them either. Heck, they don't fight anyone: They sat out WW-II, selling steel and ball bearings to anyone who wanted them and could pay cash.
I will have to check about Iraqi Rashads, but I have never seen anything mentioned about them before.
AFAIK, they were all made in one spot, on tooling purchased from Sweden after the design had been rendered obsolete there. This category of wood stocked battle rifle was already obsolete even as they were being made. Production in Egypt was definately a third-world choice. Caliber was selected so as to use up the huge stocks of WW-II surplus ammo that was available for nearly free. If I remember right, production started in 1955, making it the last all-wood battle rifle to have a production line started.
Serial numbers are in Arabic, many have electric pencil translations added for the rest of us. Dates are also stamped on the receivers. Chart attached for translation.
Figure out how to strip the thing yet? Cocked and Closed, Safety halfway between fire and safe, push the cover forward a bit, lift up the safety and remove, and the cover and bolt come out of the back. Easy as pie.
Willie
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