"To kill!""What's the spirit of the bayonet?!!"....
Black powder assaulter
"What's the spirit of the bayonet?!!"....
COL Lewis Millett approves of this thread! If you don't know him, look him up, it is worth the read. A warrior leader with stones of steel.
Might have to dig the M1 Garand out of the safe, and put my Dad's old M1905 (I think that's right) bayonet on it.
ETA: Yup. M1905. Wooden handles. Leather scabbard. 16" long.
Lonnnnnnnnnnnnng bayonet that he was issued in the Navy.
Still has cosmoline all over the blade.
I always wondered about the reason for such long bayonets on already long rifles. They seemed totally impractical for man to man combat. Thanks for the education.
I think the term is affix or affixed
Many, if not most of those 16" bayonets were cut down to 10" early in WWII, so an uncut original is a real prize.
The ones which were cut down can be identified by the blood groove running all the way to the re-ground point. Shape of the points on the cut-downs varies, also.
WWII production 10" bayonets have a blood groove which stops short of the point, as seen here.
Rifle schmifle
This kind of stuff is why I love this group. It always makes me chuckle when people think that the average firearms enthusiast is an Ozark Mt. simpleton with 85 IQ points and 8 teeth.
Clearly our group averages over 12 teeth each