No4 mk2 bayonet

I have a no4 mk2 and bayonet for it. Over time ive been getting the accessories for the rifle. I want to find the scabbard for the bayonet. I dont have the spike bayonet for the rifle. Love the rifle and shoots great.

The bowie style blade bayonet for the No4 rifle is known as the No9 bayonet and the correct scabbard for it is, confusingly, the No5 type scabbard. You should be able to get a reproduction No5 scabbard without trouble from somewhere like IMA but there are original spare No5 scabbards about because they were made and used over a long period, from the No5 bayonet until the SLR bayonet.

Ok cool thank you for the info. Ill have to do some research and see if i can find one. These rifles are very interesting to learn about and the differences between the different models.

Thank you. I will have to keep an eye out for that when looking for one.

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Id like to post a picture of the rifle and bayonet to make 100% sure i get the correct one.

Reproduction No5 scabbards.

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/bri...5-7-9-bayonets

FN scabbard, see link below. Jim, do all the FN scabbards have the ball finial or are there some without, please? I do have some wartime produced No5 scabbards with steel mouthpieces.

Bayonet scabbard FN FAL Type A or B - Collector's Source, Military Collectibles Online

There are 8 or 9(I forget exactly. I have 7 of 'em, I think.) different bayonets for the No. 4 rifle. The scabbard for the blade types are all the same. Found 'em at gun shows myself, but that was a long time ago. $25 for one is madness. Sarcoinc.com is showing a No. 9 bayonet with a scabbard for $30. Call/e-mail 'em and ask if they have any scabbards. Server Error
Collector's Source is really expensive.

Im 40min from sarco. I dont mind driving out to them plus gives me a reason to go and buy other things from them.

No ball fenial on the FN scabbards that I've used. Those were the early ones. The FAL, you know? That scabbard won't fit the FN C1 blade.

On another note, I have it reliably from two sources here that the #5 scabbard came with both brass and steel mouths... All these years, about 45 or so, I thought only brass.

Anyway, the link on the #5 repop scabbard illustrated the slight different profile or more pointed profile than ours FN scabbards were.

Some years ago when a flood of colonial ex-British material was coming into the US of A, some very interesting, what I assume to be locally sourced/made copies of UK scabbards showed up. I recall some No4 spike bayonet scabbards where the top socket was some kind of tropical wood, drilled out to fit the steel socket. I also recall some very interesting N0 9 bayonet scabbards, of various iterations, some with brass sockets and steel or even what appeared to be leather like scabbards similar to the No1 bayonet.

Sort of made sense, the items they could fabricate locally they did, either to replace worn items or to avoid the initial expense.

Unfortunately back then I sort of ignored all that stuff, when it was available in bins for very little money, preferring to buy UK pattern, though I might have one of each model packed away. I know I have one of the wooden tipped No 4 spike bayonet scabbards and a brass mounted No 9, but I know there were more variations than that.

There were No.7Mk.1 bayonets in Owen scabbards which might account for the leather P'07 style scabbards which were legit as made in Australia. I still have one or two here.

Brian, I do not really recall, to be honest. in the late 1989s and early 1990s there was not internet to check up and I always assumed back then if it was irregular it came from the Indian subcontinent. Other than the old American Rifleman articles on the Lee Enfield, Reynolds 1960 book and the 1983 Skennerton volume, very little was published on the less common stuff. Here in PA Springfield Sporters imported a ton of Indian subcontinent bits. It was not until some time later when I bought Skennerton's bayonet book, Graham Priest bayonet book and sifted through the various Internet sites I rallied I might have seen some fairly rare items that I passed by as they were not standard and could have come from the middle east. One has a tendency to forget the "opps, shoulda, coulda" like that when the opportunity has passed.