This article explains why the British pattern 1907 bayonet was a virtual clone of the Japanese Arisaka bayonet, and why the US M1917 bayonet is a virtual copy of the P1907. Details about markings and other identifying characteristics are included.
Category: De Chalybe Vulnifico
Clint Smith’s Old Rifle course re-awakened in me a fascination with edged weapons that I’d had since my youth. Delving in chalybem vulnificum (into the wound-making steel) for an article on bayonets morphed into this resource for EW researchers and enthusiasts.
British P1907 / US M1917 Bayonets
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Entrenching Tools in Close Combat
The shovel is actually a more effective APERS (anti-personnel) tool than than a bayonet. What it lacks in elegance and beauty it makes up in effectiveness and panache. Shovels are commonplace tools, but are seldom though of as a weapon you can use to defend yourself if you’re attacked in your garage or garden shed.
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Zastava M59 / 66 underfolding blade bayonet
This Yugo blade bayonet has a very distinctive, enlongated ricasso to accommodate the papovka’s permanently affixed grenade launcher.
Spanish Bolo Bayonets
The Spanish learned, during their half-millenium occupation of the Philippines, how effective bolos are as close combat tools. Some Spanish bayonets were clearly modeled after bolos, intended for chopping as well as stabbing. This article discusses some of the history and identifying characteristics of two Spanish bolo blades.
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Carcano Bayonets
This article may help you identify a bayonet made for the Italian Model 1891 Carcano rifles and their variants.
Why own a bayonet?
Many people collect bayonets and other militaria. Would they ever have any practical application for armed citizens? This posting discusses in what contexts you could possibly use one.
Isandhlwana and the Pulse Nightclub
This article I originally published on ILIVEDTraining.com explains concepts relating to maximum, max effective, and minimum effective range, as they pertain to assaults in confined areas when we vastly outnumber the assailant.
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Bayonets
This posting, partially from notes I took during the Thunder Ranch Old Rifle course, briefly addresses the development of bayonets, my limited experience with them, the sad demise of bayonet training, and attempts to use the pistol as a substitute close quarters tool.
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