FIX Bayonets...........

[Pal334]

NO, my understanding is that as a cutting tool they are useless, relative to nearly every other blade shape. I have been advised they are only useful for sticking things. I do figure to try and spear a King Salmon with it.

IMHO you hit it right on the head: "as a cutting tool they are useless" I personally always did my level best never to get close enough to have to "stick" anything. That "eye ball to eyeball" hostile encounter scenario is in my opinion grossly over rated . Now as to being a good King Salmon sticker, I eagerly await your review

[Sourdough]

When I hunted in New Zealand, they use dogs to corner wild pigs, and rather than shoot them they stick them with bayonets. It is safer for the dogs.

[Pal334]

When I hunted in New Zealand, they use dogs to corner wild pigs, and rather than shoot them they stick them with bayonets. It is safer for the dogs.

Now, they are manly men and very considerate of their dogs

[hunter63]

Nagants and SKS's have them, MN stickers make good candle holders, and the SKS uses the blade as a screwdriver, go figure.

Not real high on my personnel list of "cool stuff", but Hey, SD go for it!
You can't take it with you........ideally when they are shoveling the dirt in the hole....They should be counting, three, two, one...Even.....There he's out of money!

[Rick]

ideally when they are shoveling the dirt in the hole....They should be counting, three, two, one...Even.....There he's out of money!

You're not talking about his outhouse are you?

[aflineman]

I have a couple of them. Don't have any use for them. One is a H&K with some good steel. Very well built and usable as a "normal" knife. The other is an old one for the M16. That one has some sentimental value to me.

[rwc1969]

Truth: ... the child inside of me wants it, and I have learned to appease my inner child.

That sounds like the best reason to me.

[Old GI]

Hey you vets:

I seem to remember something about a prohibition on sharpening a bayonet. Can't recall what unit, where or why.

[ktomes_340]

I own a couple of AK 47 bayonets and an M-8 bayonet also.

[Sourdough]

Well it came today, and is well worth the $99.99 I paid. And it looks like it will be more ueful than I thought. I is well made, and wicked sharp.

[Pal334]

Hey you vets:

I seem to remember something about a prohibition on sharpening a bayonet. Can't recall what unit, where or why.

I recall that prohibition also, not sure why. But of course some of the guys ignored it and wasted hours on sharpening, only to get them confiscated.

[Pal334]

Well it came today, and is well worth the $99.99 I paid. And it looks like it will be more ueful than I thought. I is well made, and wicked sharp.

Just a note of caution. I am not very experienced in these things, but I would advise against running around with that pointy object. also, I am not sure that the bears will be very impressed by being challenged at bayonet point. Just saying

[klkak]

I have an orignal PHROBIS III, M9 bayonet that was issued to me in the late 80's.

[crashdive123]

Next thing you know, he'll be arming the geese.

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Here they are staging for the next attack.

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[Sourdough]

Crash, That is funny. God, But I do love geese.

[Rick]

You know, if those geese ever team up with the pygmy cavalry someone is in a heap trouble.

[Pal334]

Well SD if you are going to use a bayonet, perhaps you should investigate if sharpening the geese beaks is doable, just think of them as a force multiplier

[Sourdough]

Well SD if you are going to use a bayonet, perhaps you should investigate if sharpening the geese beaks is doable, just think of them as a force multiplier

I got rid of those damn turkeys because they would eat the weakest turkey while it was still alive, vile animals.

[Rick]

Wow. At some point you'd have gotten down to just one mean turkey gnawing on it's own leg. Yeah, that's pretty vile. I do hope the ducks learned a lesson in that, however.

[Sourdough]

I wonder if turkeys kill and eat other meat type things......Like frogs, small snakes....?