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Bayonets are issued from a locker in stores with no regard as to anything else. Just if they fit or not.

Not really, the two guys at the back of the tank are strolling head down. Then there's this other a few feet away. Then the photog standing still to shoot. If the fire is left/right, then why are...

Gratton and Knight. It sure looks correct to me, they usually were same color but if you put together two different slings you get a mismatch color. You COULD use Febings leather die, it tends to...

I'd like to watch that. I can imagine how it works but we have no such toys around here, or we'd have made use.

Many guys will replace a #5 butt with a #4 butt for shooting purpose. It takes all the bite out and you can find a long, I only had one long butt for #5 in time.

OP's pics of 1903 rifle...nice rifle. I'm thinking this rifle is a recent (Relatively) put together rifle?

But...the pic is taken toward friendly lines from the downrange area? Always makes me suspect a staging. Two guys at the back corner of the tank are unconcerned?

Riveting pics, thanks Roger...

Send them to me...check your PM for email address.

Also, this... https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=28752

Butt plate for OP...

Got pics? Love to see it...

Copies though?

Another pic from the OP.

Done that...wishing the bayonet gallows was close by.

Not his normal weapon. A rifleman can be tasked to do that at short notice.

I've seen that before, then they go into the gash bin...

Interesting, I guess fresh drawn cases? I'd like to see one. I'd still worry about cracking them, having to re-anneal them during use...

Here's the answer from a 2010 post by PL... "We had the old No4 energa launcher for years after the No4 was withdrawn and when the 'new' SLR launcher came on stream in the early 60's, the SLR...

I've bought a rifle because the bayonet came to me first.



I'll bet you even came up to the on guard position to have a look...

And do they ever look cool...!

As you say, cheap at twice the price. Guy hung up to try and look them up but had no idea.

I had a Kropatschek bayonet for years as about the first of my collectables. Bought it when they were...

I had a Kropatschek bayonet for years as about the first of my collectables. Bought it when they were worth exactly nothing and no one could tell you what it was. There was no internet to research...

When they came into Canada in the '80s, many were done just that way. I remember Al Leander out in Alberta showing us his new chamber ream for it. He'd just bought an M2 HB to cut and convert.

As you say, the one shown shows no magazine guides, they added some with screws as a mod until they produced them. The rear sight has a slight hump at the back, the later protective box was bigger. ...

None particularly, the long forend is the early one and once they had the A2 those came off and didn't go back on. I have reason to believe he's a Marine on Guam, they got the early models and used...