Lebel 1886 Bayonet

[Eaglelord17]

Hi all,

Felt I would share my most recent acquisition to my collection. It is a Lebel 1886 bayonet. Over the last bit I have decided to help save money and to help bring my collection up to speed I would focus on bayonets and the little things (those have kinda fallen by the wayside, and my bayonet collection is woefully undersized for my firearm collection).

Overall my feelings on this bayonet is I honestly quite like it. It might even qualify as my favourite bayonet. Very nice lines, a hooked quillion (for whatever reason I love those), and in particular the Alpaca alloy handle (a mixture of Brass, Nickel, and Zinc) all add to the look of this bayonet. It also quite light, especially for its size. This is what I would call a long bayonet, as you can see in one of the photos below I compared it to some other 'long' bayonets and it towers over them. Mounted on the end of my Berthier M1907-15 it brings the overall length of the rifle to about 6'!

From what research I have done this particular example was made between 1886-1891 due to the inspector mark on the bayonet at MAS (St. Etienne). Overall it is hard to find any real information on these bayonet (and in that way they are much like French Rifles as well).






From the top down there is a Soviet M91/30 bayonet, Japanese Type 30 bayonet, the Lebel 1886 Bayonet, and finally a Swiss 1918 bayonet.

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