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I finally got around to adding an M9 bayonet. Decided they weren't getting any cheaper and got a nice LanCay off ebay.
Read a lot about these bayonets being junk but this thing is massive. Can't imagine one breaking under normal use. What's the deal?
I carried a Buck model for my last couple of years, that's while the Cdn army was still carrying the Nella M7. I agree, they're built but will never give up the ghost on you. Solid and a real weapon...my youngest boy pilfered it off me and still has it hidden somewhere...
There were some issues early on with tangs breaking but it was a heat treating issue and was resolved.
The Buck made versions are now supposed to be big collectors items.
Carl has assembled a fairly decent assortment of the M9 bayonets on his site. I warned him many years ago about catching the M9 bug. Once you get one you have an overwhelming desire to get them all. I've been collecting them since 1987 and have well over 200 of them.
There is a good deal of information at the M9bayonet.com site and the M9 forum that you can access from there. I acquired possession of the domain last year but haven't had a chance to update the information.
Bill is right those two places are the best out there to get info on the M9, with examples of nearly every variation - more than my collection - and take heed of hios warning I got into them and ended up with over 100, including copies and commercial variations, it is an interesting filed even if most people just see a sea of the same
Seems your going to have to pilfer that Buck back from your son BAR......
He's going to end up with all my stuff anyway so this is just preemptive...
Yes I know the feeling my boy is eyeing off the sniper T with the usual badgering to shoot it......this reminds me of a story people waiting for you to fall off your perch and inheriting your gear.
Years & years ago P T Barnum befriended Grizzly Adams and Adams toured with P T's circus for many years as people had heard of Grizzly Adams and his exploits were stuff of legends, well Adams had taken a distinct liking to a nice buckskin jacket P T owned and asked if he could borrow the jacket till he was done with it to which Barnum agreed. P T & Adams always used to play tricks on each other to which P T used to say he had humbugged Adams so it came the day that sadly Adams grew ill and passed away and apparently on his dying breath he asked P T could he be buried in that jacket as he was not quite done with it yet of course Barnum agreed this last wish to his dying friend duly Adams was buried in that jacket.
To which Barnum said quite categorically Adams had the last laugh and had out humbugged the great man himself. I remember this story as it is a short bio of Adams in a 1969 Guns & Ammo mag I still have in the mag also is a good write up on Elmer Keith and Les Bowman.
Hey Jim, did you liberate that M9 from one of our Ahkios also:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Just Joking
BEAR
No, I was up there in 1975, January I think...this bayonet was bought from another soldier here in Canada about 2004... I did get an M7 way back then though. Don't know where that got to.
M9 and M7 bayonets are collectable. It seems you get them and put them in a box because they store
better than guns. M9s used to be easy to get surplus, from used to new. Then it was decided that they
can't be shipped out of the US. So my collection of M9s is done. Back to M7s and Grand bayonets.
Have to try Europe for Dutch or the Australian M9s.
I'm happy with just the one. I've never gotten into collecting all the variations of things unless they are very cheap. My exception to this is that I try to get one bayonet for every rifle I have and in doing that I will try to get different manufacturers, etc.
The best deal was on m7s from Sarco back in the day. National Guard sold off some excellent condition
ones. Sarco had a great deal when you bought 10 or more.