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quote=Johnny Peppers;212707]you can see the little diamond imprints on the blade and guard[/quote]
Yes, I saw those. I'll agree that would be too ham handed for those people to have done.
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Hi,maybe i should have posted my fist post differently as i am the novice here just never seen a dated bayonet modified this way maybe it was a field mod by a resourceful soldier or someone at springfield for their own creative reasons but buy whoever they took care in doing it .
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It would be highly unusual for a soldier in the field to have access to the equipment it would have taken to cut, grind, weld, and polish the bayonet. Except for the ones that escaped by being taken home, most of the Model 1905 bayonets were cut back to 10 inches in WWII. That would have been a prime candidate for making a knife, as following WWII they were sold in huge quantities.
