A little bayonet porn...

[coolhandluke]

Snapped a few shots of my U.S. bayos this evening and figured I'd post a few pics. I try my best to find a nice blade for every rifle in my collection that one can be mounted on. Still needing a bayonet for a Finn M39 but that's pretty much a pipe dream unless I wanted to go with a repro. The bayonets in the photos below are:

Utica Cutlery 10" M1 in WWII Victory Plastics M7 scabbard (mounted on Smith Corona 1903A3)
Norwegian M4 (exact copy of U.S. M4...even stamped U.S. M4 on crossguard) in TWB M8A1 scabbard (mounted on Plainfield M1 Carbine)
Milpar M5A1 in PWH M8A1 scabbard (mounted on 5.8 Springfield M1 Garand)
Milpar M7 in PWH M8A1 scabbard

I also have a couple other 10"UFH M1 bayonets that are not pictured.

 

[dennishoddy]

Cool set of cold steel!

If I remember right, the Geneva convention didn't allow them to be sharpened.

Mine was Illegal I guess.

 

[AKguy1985]

Very nice

 

[Perplexed]

Very nice layout! Did you get the 10 inchers during the CMP bayo sale a few years ago? I ordered eight or ten of them and kept three cut-downs with Bowie points, which I prefer to the spear point.

 

[milsurp2.0]

Cool set of cold steel!

If I remember right, the Geneva convention didn't allow them to be sharpened.

Mine was Illegal I guess.

I think your thinking of the sawback ridges.

 

[coolhandluke]

Very nice layout! Did you get the 10 inchers during the CMP bayo sale a few years ago? I ordered eight or ten of them and kept three cut-downs with Bowie points, which I prefer to the spear point.

Unfortunately all three of my 10" bayonets are non cut-down spear points...I would love to have a cut-down bowie point.

Only one of my 10" UFH bayonets is from the CMP. It's the one that I bought on the forums a few weeks back. It's in nice clean shape, but most of the park finish has been worn off the lower section of the blade and it has a Greek serial number stamped on the crossguard. I swapped its scabbard onto the Utica bayonet which is in better overall shape. The Utica was a purchase off of eBay along with my other UFH which also has an original VP M7 scabbard, but is pretty worn with some light pitting on the bayonet and scabbard throat. The Utica cost me $40 shipped and the well worn UFH and scabbard was only $28 shipped if I remember correctly. Thankfully deals can still be had when sellers use vague or incorrect auction descriptions.

The Norwegian M4 was a CMP bayonet as well. I believe that it was in the batch that were sold a few years back for $25 each before the Greek / unknown bayonets were available. A member on the forums hooked me up with the M4 last month for only $35 shipped which is a steal considering that they are bringing $75-$100 these days.

 

[orangeRcode]

Very nice collection. Impeccable pics as always Lucas!