Wire Cutters, genuine or repro???

[Peter Laidler]

While talking of wire cutters. The wire cutting feature of the current bayonet/scabbard was one of those things decided on by a committee who really couldn't make their minds up. For various reasons it added thousands upon thousands of £££'s to the bayonet concept. It causes never ending scrap damage to blades and scabbards. One of my old bosses said that it would have been a far better idea and a zillion times cheaper to simply give 2 men in the Infantry section a pair of decent and more versatile pliers. Or as in this case, a simple pair of cutters. I'm also bound to wonder what sort of dire straits you'd need to be in to even contemplate using the saw blade attached to the scabbard.......

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[browningautorifle]

the saw blade attached to the scabbard.

For fish scaling...

We too have a wire cutter attached but I know there's some concertina that would defeat it. The blades would be stronger without a hole in them...