bannockburn
Member
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2007
- Messages
- 26,319
Seeing all of these AK and SKS bayonets jogged my memory such that I remembered I do have another bayonet...
Fix Bayonets!
- Thread starter igotta40
- Start date
Yeah, just like the go...The cat is nicknamed Guido the mafioso enforcer, He will flat out bully and rough you up until you give him his protection money (treats)
Shut up, Terry.
Last edited:
mokin
Member
Great pictures everybody!
This M-7 will also work on an AR-15 I have. I had an interesting AK type clone that would fit on an AR-15/M-16 type rifle. It went with the SP1 when I sold it though. I'd like to find another just because that was the only one I've seen...
This is on my list of things to do....
Just because....
From way back when I was young and impressionable.
I have an SKS with a spike (unless it was among those that got lost when I rolled my canoe).
This M-7 will also work on an AR-15 I have. I had an interesting AK type clone that would fit on an AR-15/M-16 type rifle. It went with the SP1 when I sold it though. I'd like to find another just because that was the only one I've seen...
This is on my list of things to do....
Just because....
From way back when I was young and impressionable.
I have an SKS with a spike (unless it was among those that got lost when I rolled my canoe).
Last edited:
22250Rem
Member
One of the guns I sold a few years ago while trimming the collection down. Now I regret it because it's a Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mark 3 and my paternal grandfather spent 17 months in France with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps and I'm sure he was very familiar with these. The bayonet was sold at the same auction but separately.
..Bayonet was a Wilkinson pattern 1907 according to the auction house.
..Bayonet was a Wilkinson pattern 1907 according to the auction house.TinNePa
Member
I need to get me some bayonets! Just not something I was interested in before. I should look at the gun show and pick up a few. Or sarco.
amd6547
Member
My CMP M1 Carbine equipped with its Norwegian M4-clone bayonet, also courtesy CMP.
The sheath was used by my Dad to carry a combat knife from France to Austria.
The sheath was used by my Dad to carry a combat knife from France to Austria.
Old Sandman 71
Member
Some fixed bayonets…
We trained with the use of bayonets but luckily we never had to use them in actual combat.
Now if I could just find a true 21" long 22lr barrel for an AR build, then I could "fix bayonets" to face the hordes of charging squirrels that are evil and hell bent on taking over the world.
Now if I could just find a true 21" long 22lr barrel for an AR build, then I could "fix bayonets" to face the hordes of charging squirrels that are evil and hell bent on taking over the world.
sgt127
Member
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2003
- Messages
- 2,122
“Now? Youse can’t leave…”The cat is nicknamed Guido the mafioso enforcer, He will flat out bully and rough you up until you give him his protection money (treats)
Last edited:
NIGHTLORD40K
Member
Oooooohhhhh.....love the SIG!
Thanks! Picked it up a couple of months ago and it's been evolving.
Started out by replacing the fishgill handguards with a 551 set, then found a 556 Patrol with side folder at a gun show a couple of weeks ago and swapped the lowers (then sold the Patrol for what I had in it). Also added the MFI diopter/rail for a more "Swiss" look.
NIGHTLORD40K
Member
Looks WAY better now, more Swiss but still takes STANAG mags.
1976B.L.Johns.
Member
Ignition Override
Member
sgt127: "When the Kitty Man Comes!"
, based on an old shanty song.
Those cats look like bad dudes
who control all of the turf.
The L1A1 FAL now shipping to my FFL has what looks like an Aussie (British) lug on the flash hider, but I'm not gonna pay over $200 to have a bayo for the rifle.
Ammo is the 'game', because it costs so much, and because the M1A plus other FAL use brass-cased .308 ammo.
, based on an old shanty song.Those cats look like bad dudes
who control all of the turf.The L1A1 FAL now shipping to my FFL has what looks like an Aussie (British) lug on the flash hider, but I'm not gonna pay over $200 to have a bayo for the rifle.
Ammo is the 'game', because it costs so much, and because the M1A plus other FAL use brass-cased .308 ammo.
AlexanderA
Member
PTR-91 (civilian G3) with German G3 bayonet mounted. This is unusual in that it mounts on top of the barrel. The blade form is copied directly from the U.S. M4-5-6-7 series.
You can see the metal plate at the front bottom of the grip, which protects the grip from the blast coming from the slots in the flash hider.
Detail of the hilt, showing the locking mechanism on the pommel. This enters the front of the cocking tube, on the rifle. An off-the-shelf PTR-91 needs to have the spring-loaded bayonet adapter added, to replace the cap at the end of the tube.
The groove on the guard is to engage the spring catch on the German scabbard.
Many of the countries using the G3, such as Norway, Turkey, Pakistan, etc., adopted their own forms of bayonet. The Norwegian bayonet has the hilt shorter, and the guard set back, by 1/2" so as to clear the flash hider slots. The Turkish blade is 3" longer. And the Pakistani bayonet uses a Bowie-style blade copied from the British Nos. 5, 7, and 9 bayonets. (I have these in my collection but it's too much trouble to dig them out just now.)
You can see the metal plate at the front bottom of the grip, which protects the grip from the blast coming from the slots in the flash hider.
Detail of the hilt, showing the locking mechanism on the pommel. This enters the front of the cocking tube, on the rifle. An off-the-shelf PTR-91 needs to have the spring-loaded bayonet adapter added, to replace the cap at the end of the tube.
The groove on the guard is to engage the spring catch on the German scabbard.
Many of the countries using the G3, such as Norway, Turkey, Pakistan, etc., adopted their own forms of bayonet. The Norwegian bayonet has the hilt shorter, and the guard set back, by 1/2" so as to clear the flash hider slots. The Turkish blade is 3" longer. And the Pakistani bayonet uses a Bowie-style blade copied from the British Nos. 5, 7, and 9 bayonets. (I have these in my collection but it's too much trouble to dig them out just now.)
Last edited:
GunnyUSMC
Member
I have a lot of bayonets for my rifles but only two with bayonet mounted.
Heres the only two that I have pictures of with bayonet.
Look closely at the top rifle and tell if you know what you are looking at.
Heres the only two that I have pictures of with bayonet.
Look closely at the top rifle and tell if you know what you are looking at.
AlexanderA
Member
Turkish M1935 bayonet, converted to fit the Garand around the time of the Korean War.
IWAC
Member
Me, Neither! If'n he's close enough to stick, he's close enough to shoot!
bassjam
Member
My A4-ish build.
GunnyUSMC
Member
You are correct. I found the bayonet at a collector’s show in Alabama several years ago. The seller had no clue to what it was.
The Turkish troops that went to the Korean War were armed with Turkish Mausers. They couldn’t Keep up a high enough rate of fire and the enemy would overrun their position, but they were deadly with there bayonets, mountEd on their rifles or in hand.
The US gave them M1 Garands and the new M5 A1 bayonets. The Turks did not like the shorter bayonet so, they modified their Mauser bayonet to find the Garandos. I have about six modified Turkish Mauser bayonet in my collection now. A couple of years ago I picked up two Turkish M5 A1 bayonets. They have aluminum grips on them.
NIGHTLORD40K
Member
My Turkish buddy has one of those given to him by his father who trained in Basic with both the Garand and G3. Apparently "mauser" is a generic term over there for any military rifle regardless of actual manufacturer, so his Dad was perplexed when my buddy bought an actual bolt-action M98 Turk here and told him it wouldnt fit, lol.
AlexanderA
Member
What I find interesting is the way in which they made the modification. The first problem was that the hilt was too long, and the guard ring would have extended beyond the Garand's muzzle. So the obvious solution there was to add a spacer behind the guard. But the spacer could not be made too thick. A reasonably thin spacer would place the bayonet guard at the narrow part of the muzzle, in front of the gas cylinder lock. The hole in the spacer, accordingly, had to be made smaller than the guard hole in either the original Turkish bayonet, or the U.S. M1 bayonet.
The unusual configuration of the gas cylinder lock on Garands is precisely so that existing stocks of Springfield (and Krag) bayonets could be used.
