Results 1 to 10 of 149
-
March 6th, 2010, 01:33 PM #1
FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
I don't think there's a bayonet thread yet, so I figured "why not start one?"
As this is in the "gun pics" thread, I'd prefer to see pics of bayos on guns, preferably in the "fixed" position.
Hmmm... this is embarrassing. I can't find the photo I was going to post.
Unfortunately, I sold the only rifle I owned with a bayo.
I did find one photo with it extended on the day I brought it home, still caked in cosmoline... (Yugoslavian SKS)
Fix bayonets! "Let's go!"I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
-
March 6th, 2010, 03:18 PM #2
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
the only pic i have with bayonet fixed.
[IMG][/IMG]I just flew the Millennium Falcon through the hole in your logic 2A6X1
-
March 6th, 2010, 05:10 PM #3
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...00000000413847
M1 Garand - Manufactured April 1943
16 Inch Bayonet - Manufactured 1942
This picture was taken in my back up kitchen. If you are REALLY serious about something, and I like to eat, you need to have a back up.
Makes sense for guns, makes sense for kitchens, but, I'm not dumb enough to press the concept with women. The Hippy Chick would shoot me dead!"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
-
March 6th, 2010, 05:26 PM #4
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
Wow. The bayo on the Garand looks like it's 3' long!
I've not done much research on them, so I don't know if they were made in different lengths. I have one that my father in law had brought home after WWII... I'm going to go and measure it.
(Also have 2 Mauser bayos he brought home.)I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
-
March 6th, 2010, 05:40 PM #5
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
10 and 16"
it uses the same bayo as the '03 series of rifles.
the first world war saw bayo's as a very real weapon, by the time first world got around to act two, the bayo was still a front line weapon, but was on it's way out.
so instead of issuing bayo's almost a foot and half long, they reduced the length to a still very menacing 10"s.....many of the 16 inchers were later cut down to ten inches.
as a side note, the bayo(or rather butter knife) issued for the m16 is almost the same bayo designed for the m1carbine.....designed some 25-30 years prior.it's only metal, we can out think it....
-
March 6th, 2010, 06:35 PM #6
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
I did a little research before I bought my bayonet. From what I read, the 16 inch bayonet was originally made for the 1903 Springfields and then when the Garand entered service, it was designed to use the same one.
About midway through WW II, they determined that 10 inches was a more effective length and changed the design of the new production, as well as began reworking the 16 inch units, cutting them down to 10 inches.
As a result, the remaining 16 inch bayonets are somewhat rare, making them more expensive. That's why I wanted the 16 inch. I gave around $200 for it a few years ago and the 10 inch ones could be had for around $100.
Every time I pick that rifle up, I am humbled and awed by the men that carried that weapon and what they did with it. I consider the rifle and bayonet one of my most cherished firearms."Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." G.K. Chesterton
-
March 6th, 2010, 07:13 PM #7
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
Thanks for the info and yes, I'm humbled as well.
Since I don't have a rifle to attach it to, I did the next best thing, and pulled out my father in law's army uniform to use as a backdrop for an impromptu photo shoot...
I believe I read somewhere that you can tell which bayonets were cut down by noting that the "blood groove" extends the length of the blade. (Indicating it was once a longer blade)
More photos, including the German (K98) bayos here:
http://s886.photobucket.com/albums/a...Stuff/Bayonet/Last edited by Emptymag; March 6th, 2010 at 07:18 PM.
I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!
-
March 6th, 2010, 08:29 PM #8
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
Last edited by brian; September 26th, 2012 at 05:24 PM.
it's only metal, we can out think it....
-
March 6th, 2010, 08:35 PM #9
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
Excellent idea for a thread! I've been holding off starting one until I got a bayo for my recently aquired SMLE. I'm sure I'll find one at the VFGS next weekend, and then I'll post my small collection representing almost 100 years of pig stickers in service.
-
March 7th, 2010, 07:18 PM #10
Re: FIX BAYONETS!!! Show your firearms with bayos
Very cool idea for a thread. I got up and snapped a few pics.
My CETME
My Yugo SKS - I got this from Century with a beat up stock. I had to do a lot of repair to it to smooth it out, then I treated it with Alumahyde II from Brownells. I love the finish. I prefer the wood but considering how this thing looked when I got it, she cleaned up very nicely.
My SAR1... because there always has to be an AK in the crowd:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
Similar Threads
-
H.R. 2296:Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Reform and Firearms Mo
By Gtbullet in forum GeneralReplies: 0Last Post: July 9th, 2009, 09:32 PM -
Mid Atlantic Arms Collectors Gun Show, Harrisburg Farm Show Complex
By Jeff M in forum GeneralReplies: 0Last Post: August 21st, 2008, 07:04 PM -
Original bayonets
By autorim in forum GeneralReplies: 1Last Post: July 5th, 2007, 07:37 PM -
Deal on AK-47 Bayonets
By Harvdog in forum GeneralReplies: 5Last Post: March 7th, 2007, 02:50 PM
Bookmarks