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I've got a lot of bayonets to go along with my milsurp rifle collection, but I've always loved this piece. What a mean looking mother and I've always thought it was more like a sword than a bayonet. :D
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Swiss 1914 Pioneer-Engineer SAWBACK Bayonet
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1914 Pioneer-Engineer SAWBACK Bayonet (more pics ... click here)
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The command in the 1884 Manual of Arms for the Yatagan bayonet as used on the Martini Henry was "affix swords"
Awesome! (I've got the same one, or similiar, i believe their were 2 distinct versions). I bring it out when guests come over. They love it! It's a great way to get an evening started!
LI
Nothing gets a party rolling like bayonetting the dullest guest and then sawing some boughs for the fire... ;)Quote:
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Wicked looking item, indeed.
I'm also partial to the British Yataghan sword bayonets, originally intorduced in the 1850's for use with some of the models of muzzle-loading Enfields, then continued in use for the Snider-Enfield versions of same and also adapted ultimately to the Martini-Henry. As Wheaty has said, they were specifically referred to as "swords", at least in the Rifles regiments that they were issued to ....
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I just finished typeing about how much I liked sword bayos on the swiss thread when I saw this one. Bayonets are making a comeback in todays armys not sword bayos unfortunatly but for transport of prisoners or keeping civies at a distance a bayonet is perfect.
In the mid to late 1800's many bayonets were swords of one form or another particularly for NCO's etc with the standard soldier getting a socket. Here's my favorite the Jacobs, 30" nearly of sword with a full basket hilt to fit on the end of a double barreled rifle (not a shotgun but two rifle barrels
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In highschool I had a military history teacher that told us that "Fire enrages" (reffering to gun fire) and "Steel chills".
john