Found this at a garage sale cheap...I don't know anything about bayonets, but I was so happy about the old Gerber Mark I at $20.00 that I took the bayonet too, same price.
7" blade, 12" overall length. 2 pc. bakelite? or plastic handles, heqavily checkered, black finish, - USM8A1 on scabbard throat, 1/4" high, PWH underneath that, 1/8" high.
Anyone tell me what it's for?
Garage sale bayonet I.D. ?
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Re: Garage sale bayonet I.D. ?
Looks like a Vietnam to present day M7. Not a great bayonet but it will get the job done. I think they usually go for about $15-$20.
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What IH said. M-7 bayonet for the M-16 rifle and the USM8A1 Scabbard which fits the M-1 Carbine M-4 bayonet plus the M-14 M-6 bayonet as well as the M-16 M-7 bayonet.
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This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
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Re: Garage sale bayonet I.D. ?
Jerry, don't leave out the M-3 Trench Knife; it was the original of the M-3, M-4, M-5, M-6, & M-7 blade configuration US issue fighting knives/bayonets. OH
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Colonel, I had to look all that stuff up. I didn't know none of those 'M' numbers in the first place. "Yep, got my bayonet hanging in the right place on my web belt and it's clean. I'm ready for inspection." "Sir, it must be the right one for the M-14 'cause it's the one Supply issued to me and we all know, Supply don't make no mistakes."
I watched a video last week on field stripping the M-14. I didn't remember none of that stuff.
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I watched a video last week on field stripping the M-14. I didn't remember none of that stuff.
One thing about the Internet. Sometimes it can make you (me) look smarter than you are (I am).
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Jerry, I love you man - you are the real deal, no BS, just real - and I will give you one of my Budweisers!
Ps The M-3 is my favorite of the bunch - real clean looking without all the locking devices for hanging the bayonet on the rifle.
Ps The M-3 is my favorite of the bunch - real clean looking without all the locking devices for hanging the bayonet on the rifle.
Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
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My M-3 and M8 scabbard (pre M8A1, lacks the hanging wire for the pistol belt).
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Thank you. I don't like liars, cheats, thieves and blowhards. I don't do those things and want nothing to do with those who do. Can I have a Yuengling Lager instead?Old Hunter wrote:you are the real deal, no BS, just real - and I will give you one of my Budweisers!
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Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Yuengling Lager? You got it - that is my number one, hands down favorite - didn't know it was even known about east of the original 13 colonies. That is a very nice bayonet you have there, it looks virtually new (as does the scabbard) - how did you find one in that nice of condition?
Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
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one less rattle...those sure were noisy bayonetsOld Hunter wrote:My M-3 and M8 scabbard (pre M8A1, lacks the hanging wire for the pistol belt).