Funny Ross bayonet, ...

[Melanie_Daniels]

... but who used ist?

[Sapper740]

That's not a Ross bayonet and it appears someone had to braze a short section into the crosspiece to make it taller to fit over the barrel. The protective ears of the front sight aren't Ross either, they look like modified CLLE.

[browningautorifle]

What neat, neat cobble job. Looks like something the Turks would do.

[Sapper740]

What neat, neat cobble job. Looks like something the Turks would do.

Turks. Or Afghanis.

[Surpmil]

"Cobbledegook"

In the most general sense, not a bad concept as the issue Ross bayonet was "funny" indeed.

The execution however would be a warrant for same IMHO.

[tiriaq]

Looks to be a Mk. IIIB to which a modified M1907 SMLE bayonet has been fitted.

[Melanie_Daniels]

Correct - the foresight protector is from a Mk. IIIB.

[Sapper740]

You're correct, it is a MkIIIB. I've included two pictures with the MkIII above and the MkIIIB below.

[Peter Laidler]

The problem with the Turks or the Afghans theory is whether they actually had Ross Rifles to start with.

I'm minded to suggest that such a modification would be done by someone armed with Ross rifles, albeit in small numbers, who had a need for a bayonet. After all, as the old Army saying goes, if you need a bayonet, you REALLY DO need a bayonet.

So I am suggesting that the British Home Guard really needed bayonets. They certain;y welded old bayonets onto steel scaffold tube so why wouldn't they weld up bayonets to fit onto their Ross Rifles.

Maybe this thread should be transferred to the Bayonets section so it gets more air time

[sexyfishsticks]

India…. Had lots of Ross rifles and lots of 1907 bayonets