Sterling bayonet

[Vincent]

I have been looking for a bayonet for my Mk4 and found this one. I think it's authentic, but I am only recently addicted to milsurps.

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[old-smithy]

It is a commercial Sterling bayonet

[Peter Laidler]

Made for Sterling by a commercial contractor using standard SLR/L1A1 blades rivetted to No5 rifle pommels using No5 rifle crosspiece and L1A1 rifle pressed steel grips retained by aero rivets called 'Rivets, tubular aircraft'. Which we Armourers nicknamed 'RIVETS, tubular, awful' because you wound NEVER get them to fold/roll the correct way except after many attempts.

A classic example of a hybrid bayonet if ever I saw one!

[browningautorifle]

This is the one that Carl and Peter and I were talking about some time back. I STILL haven't seen a live one !

[Vincent]

Thank you, gentlemen.

[old-smithy]

Still need to dig mine out, but i believe it is the same as this but the fullers are ground so deep they actually meet in the middle

[purple]

A Canadian FN bayonet will fit a Sterling SMG, at least a Canaduian made Sterling. It was actually pretty amusing to do arms drill with the Sterling with attached bayonet. Very thoughtful of the powers that were to provide us with a bayonet for the SMG, but I wouldn't fancy having to use it.

[browningautorifle]

Purple, this is not even remotely the same bayonet. This resembles the #5 bayonet and it has steel scales instead of the usual wood. Very odd model. The bayonet on t eh SMG is for close quarter combat because that's where your stoppages seem to occur. NOW, I also was issued the submachine gun C1 and it's not really the same as the Sterling other than the outer shape. The bolt was in two pieces instead of the Canadian having one piece. The trigger mech was better made and ours was rather cheap. The Sterling mags had rollers and were 32 round ours were stamped and only 30 so you had 4 rounds left in the box. They had better finish...Jump in anywhere here Capt Laidler.

[purple]

Purple, this is not even remotely the same bayonet. This resembles the #5 bayonet and it has steel scales instead of the usual wood. Very odd model. The bayonet on t eh SMG is for close quarter combat because that's where your stoppages seem to occur. NOW, I also was issued the submachine gun C1 and it's not really the same as the Sterling other than the outer shape. The bolt was in two pieces instead of the Canadian having one piece. The trigger mech was better made and ours was rather cheap. The Sterling mags had rollers and were 32 round ours were stamped and only 30 so you had 4 rounds left in the box. They had better finish...Jump in anywhere here Capt Laidler.

Yes, I wasn't commenting on this particular bayo, only on the fact that the Cdn FN bayo could be used with the Cdn C1 (Sterling pattern) SMG. I fired the C1 SMG a lot over the years and really liked it. I never experienced any form of stoppage with it, so personally felt the bayo was kind of a redundant appendage. Reach is a big factor in bayo fighting and a thrust from the stubby SMG could be easily parried by a longer weapon. A lot of stoppages with auto weapons can be traced back to worn or faulty magazines. We used to see this with well used mags for the Browning HP.

[nzl1a1collector]

Crap................ I guess really it's a version of 'L1A1' bayonet I need to find..... mutter, mutter