|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17
Campfire Sage
|
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17 |
Do you have any bayonets that may have come with any of those rifles? I had a semi-auto 6.5 swede that had a quite nice bayonet, I gave the rifle to my Son who still has it. 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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17
Campfire Sage
|
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17 |
Do you have any bayonets that may have come with any of those rifles? I had a semi-auto 6.5 swede that had a quite nice bayonet, I gave the rifle to my Son who still has it. 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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 16,000
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 16,000 |
there was a bayonet charge in korea too lewis lee millett
Last edited by RoninPhx; 01/06/22.
THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17
Campfire Sage
|
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17 |
there was a bayonet charge in korea too lewis lee millett Thanks. I just read up on him. Interesting.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 19,535 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 19,535 Likes: 1 |
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. What’s the particulars on the bayonet on the far left? Pretty cool and I don’t remember seeing one like that before
MAGA
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17
Campfire Sage
|
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17 |
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17
Campfire Sage
|
OP
Campfire Sage
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 131,704 Likes: 17 |
What’s the particulars on the bayonet on the far left? Pretty cool and I don’t remember seeing one like that before
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.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 19,535 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 19,535 Likes: 1 |
MAGA
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 8,254
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 8,254 |
You may find some of the Bayonets are worth more than the rifle, if you can find one...good score Hawkeye.
|
|
|
|
579 members (10gaugemag, 10Glocks, 1badf350, 1936M71, 12344mag, 61 invisible),
2,462
guests, and
1,394
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,192,195
Posts18,485,050
Members73,966
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|