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Here's something you don't see everyday. A blade from a Savage 1899 bayonet. I've seen one or two over the years. I would guess they were left over from the contract production. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=161223266021
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I think Billy needs that for sticking pigs in Florida.
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should get plenty of attention... those are rare blades and having new handles made would not be the end of the world... won't be original but with as rare as the bayonets are, there will be plenty of demand.
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Roy, I stick pigs with a 308. When I was a younger lad, we'd chase them damn things all night long. Stick em, then before we could leash the dogs, we'd be on another chase. That stuff in the black dark, thru swamps and palmettos, will slap tear you and your dogs apart. Now as a mature adult I prefer to choot em That is a rare piece of steel there tho, hens teeth I'd say
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This is my "hens tooth", let me know when someone starts making handles.
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Anybody got a photo of the correct handle?
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“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
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Calhoun; Thanks for sharing the photo sir, I appreciate it very much.
If you or anyone would be so inclined, when I've searched the 99 Home Guard Musket previously there seems to be some disagreement as to how rare an original is.
I'll note that the one in the photo has the top fore end wood, which has to be quite rare, no?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts on the subject and all the best to you this windy Wednesday sir.
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Original Home Guard muskets that haven't been sporterized definitely aren't common, there were only 800'ish ever made.
That being said, they do come up for sale occasionally in good shape. Just have to be watching and have the $$ to buy one.
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Original Home Guard muskets that haven't been sporterized definitely aren't common, there were only 800'ish ever made.
That being said, they do come up for sale occasionally in good shape. Just have to be watching and have the $$ to buy one. Rory, thanks for posting the 800+ number made, I googled home guard muskets, was said to have been 2500, I was skeptical of that figure, the article also said that the volunteers had to pay for the muskets?
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The MHG had contracted savage to build more rifles but the home guard movement was loosing interest rather quickly and from what I have found no rifles were delivered after April of 1915. There also have been a few without rack numbers surface in the US leading me to believe not all built ended up with the MHG. One article in a Montreal paper calls for increased participation in the weekly drills and this was the spring of 1915. I believe the latest date of any information that I have come across is the fall of 1915.
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I wouldn't think that would be too hard to build a handle for. Sure, it would take lots of time. You would need one for a pattern as well.
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Hear that Blair, mail me over your bayo would ya!
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Wood is simple. It is the white metal fittings that would be very cost prohibitive. The clasp that attaches to the barrel is very unique.
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Here is a write up in British & Commonwealth Bayonets By Ian Skennerton Cheers
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Maybe you will come across one that has been ground down for use as a hunting knife Joe.
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Apparently it's said that a lot of them went that way but haven't crossed paths with one yet that's been made into a hunting knife.
In reality there should be 800 of them floating around up here somewhere. Probably untouched ones laying in the bottom of some old guys gun cabinet and he doesn't own a computer.
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Apparently it's said that a lot of them went that way but haven't crossed paths with one yet that's been made into a hunting knife. In the middle.
“ The Savage 99 Pocket Reference”. All models and variations of 1895’s, 1899’s and 99’s covered. Also dates, checkering, engraving.. Find at www.savagelevers.com
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Cool, now I know what they look like.
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The problem with the ground down ones is they likely also ground down the part that goes over the barrel.
When I mentioned it being relatively easy to make a handle, I was simply thinking of the wood parts... that said, a 3D scanner and CNC machine could probably knock the metal parts one out pretty quickly... probably only cost you as much as an original bayonet.
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