Bayonet Availability?

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Are there any M9 bayonets around of decent quality? It just occurred to me these don’t seem very common. Last I looked the ones regularly available were made by Buck. It’s been a while.
 
Can they be attached to the rifle or mostly intended as a field knife?
 
The M7 and M9 bayonets will fit just fine on a 20" barrel with rifle length gas system, 16" barrel with mid length gas system, or 14.5" barrel with carbine length gas system. If you have a 16" barrel with the carbine length gas system, you will need an adaptor.

And I never mounted the bayonet outside of basic training except for the occasional ceremony where the big wigs want to see the bayonets.
 
Bayonet requires having the lug be present on the bottom of the FSB.
Not much used in actual Service, except y Color Guards or the like (very ceremonial). Otherwise the M9 winds up used as a utility tool (and much abused in that role, too).
A legit bit of ephemera, though.
 
A former service member buddy of mine gave me his issue Ontario M9.

It's a pig sticker for sure. Big ol knife. Borders between a knife and a machete.

I looked up how much they run, and whew they're not cheap. It's a nice knife though. The built in sharpener isn't real useful though.
 
As a bayonet, the M7 is superior to the M9. (This has to do with the balance and bulk of the weapon with bayonet attached.) The M9 is a "jack of all trades and master of none." At least it's not as big and heavy as the M1849 Ames Rifleman's Knife, which was the all-time worst design for an issued knife.
 
As a bayonet, the M7 is superior to the M9. (This has to do with the balance and bulk of the weapon with bayonet attached.) The M9 is a "jack of all trades and master of none." At least it's not as big and heavy as the M1849 Ames Rifleman's Knife, which was the all-time worst design for an issued knife.

I still have my M7 but never bothered to keep my M9
 
I have a Lan-Cay that only has wear from being looked at. I can’t speak for how useful it is as a tool because it’s worth too much to use it for the jobs it’s intended to do and cheaper purpose built tools would do a better job anyway. A Leatherman is far more useful, compact and cheaper.

If it wasn’t for owning the “real thing” one of these would likely be the same,

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to most that just look at it.
 
Every man needs at least one rifle with a bayonet capability.

My AR15 was made illegal without our Blackface Prime Minister even consulting Parliament. One signature.

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generally, there are no good M9 bayonets, and never were. The M7 is great, the OKC are good. The M9 was a AKM knockoff, but crappier. Get an M7, S3 if you want a decent bayonet. The m9 is a swiss army knife that never worked.

I could be wrong, I never used an M9. But that seems to be the consensus. My experience with the M7 is good, the S3 is decent. Lots of people complain about the M9, but I never have seen one. The Rattail seems to bother people. The M7 was the last of the true bayonets, while the S3 was a fighting knife that was also a bayonet, the M9 was a utility knife that was neither bayonet or combat knife. I'm sure it had its value, but it wasn't recognized as a weapon, and was known to break when worked hard.
 
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