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I have a few European bayonets in a trunk, as I recall. Haven't thought of them in years. I'll have to dig them out and see which, if any, fit which Mausers.

Wow! Thanks for putting this thought in my head. I couldn't honestly remember if I had any bayonets for any of my four military Mausers, but after reading your post, I moved years of clutter off an old dusty trunk, found the key to it, opened it up, and dug these three out (there were a bunch more, too, in there, but not for Mausers). I don't know how I forgot I had them. Between these three, I can put a bayonet on all four of my military Mausers. Thanks again for the thought. Who knows if it would ever again have occurred to me that I had these bayonets stashed away somewhere.



Here's three of them wearing bayonets.



They're a throwback to gruesome methods of war, back before the invention of firearms. Soldiers were expected to march into each other's ranks and do battle with them, and did many times in warfare, up through WWI. I'm not sure how relevant they were in WWII and beyond, which is why they don't spend much time training with them in modern militaries, nor even give much thought to their design, though most modern military rifles still have attachment points for them.

I believe a division under Patton once resorted to a bayonet charge during WWII, now that I think of it.

there was a bayonet charge in korea too
lewis lee millett

Thanks. I just read up on him. Interesting.

What’s the particulars on the bayonet on the far left? Pretty cool and I don’t remember seeing one like that before

I read an account of a Russian soldier who says he used his Mosin-Nagant-mounted bayonet a lot during the Battle of Stalingrad. He said he was surprised, at first, at how effective it was, killing nearly instantly, and requiring very little effort to use in a lethal manner.

That was the standard Swedish Army issue bayonet for the Swedish Mauser Model of 1896, which is the rifle it's mounted on in the picture. Blade is 8.25" long. The nub near the pommel is the spring loaded latch that affixes it to the lug on the rifle. You pull it out against spring pressure to release it from the lug.

Cool, thanks

You may find some of the Bayonets are worth more than the rifle, if you can find one...good score Hawkeye.