Sloppyness of bayonets on 99 rifle

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I have some nice looking bayonets %80 and better. I assume this comes from sticking the bayonets in straw dummys and twisting them in practice back in the big WW2 by the Japanese . Or on people. In New Guinea some 160 captured Aussies were tied to trees alive and used for Bayonet practice by the Japs, ( The Ghost Mountian Boys,by James Campell) The screams could be heard for near a mile by escaping troops. They loved there bayonets and charges like no other army . With near 8.5 million Japanese bayonets made . The Japanese used more bayonets than any other army past or present. I at last found one like new and it has no play or looseness on 6 different T99 rifles. Being made of softer steel in the guard I can see how they would open up under that kind of adrenlin torgue in combat and training. Any thoughts ??

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