Those are too valuable to get dinged up or to throw down.
Much less break a stock over some knuckelhead's noggin when all three barrels are empty.
War is hell!
Wonder how many of those were laid in a gutter next to their civilian counterpart and run over with a Sherman?
Where's that gutter now? Maybe if the owner covered it with his body something might be salvageable?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)