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Originally Posted by borntoraisehogs
There is nothing wrong with wanting a bayonet for any reason or no reason. Part of the attraction the M-1 Garand and any weapon with a military foundational provenance is the historical significance and I like to have a bayonets for them.
I read they quit training bayonet in the Army and I think that is too bad. It was fun and somehow it started you thinking there could be a link between yourself and the "real" soldiers, dads, uncles, grandpas, not just kids like us. I guess the modern equipment and such , means they have no time for such an obsolete weapon.
Even back then we knew that for us to be fixing bayonets , so many things had to go wrong in a row that it was going to be a very bad day.
http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/y...sehogs/M-1.jpg
Actually I do fix bayonet and run around the house doing the short thrust,hold, withdraw. long thrust ,Vertical butt stroke, slash, horizontal butt stroke, jab, slash. The grand kids think it is funnier that "Drunken Master kung fu disaster".. |
I am ordering my M1 bayonet today, CMP has some goodies in.
I also have the bayo for my mosin nagant, we do afix it and stab targets after shooting the **** out of them. Some is very satisfiying about stabbing your old targets to finish them off with it. granted our targets are usually interactive things, such as toilet seats and signs and clay pigeons etc etc