SKS bayonets

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This may be a silly question but I have always been under the impression that a bayonet was just a knife attached to the end of the barrel of a rifle. I was thrown off when I received my 1953 SKS and the bayonet had no sharp edge? Were they not meant to be sharpened?
 
none of the dozen or so russian i saw had sharpen edges . matter of fact my chinese and yugo blades are also unsharpen .
 
there are two styles of boyonet, spike and blade, blade is more comon for europe, and the spike for chinese, but they did have a production of blade bayonet.
 
Try pictureing a razor sharp bayonet fixed to your rifle.
Try picturing your fingertips after having manipulated said rifle.
Bayonets were designed to puncture not to cut.
 
Yeah that makes sense and i'm sure with enough force it will go right through clothes and skin and create the desired effect.
 
lone-wolf said:
Aren't ar15 bayonets sharp, and actual used as a knife?
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Yeah this one looks pretty sharp :D:D:D

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lone-wolf said:
Aren't ar15 bayonets sharp, and actual used as a knife?
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You can take off an AR bayonet/knife with simple push on the little tabs...you can't do this with an SKS bayonet.

I have read that the reason the M44 and later the SKS went to the system of attached bayonet on a hinge was because with the old system of removable bayonets the Russians never had a bit of simple gear to carry the bayonet when it was not attached to the rifle, so they tended to get lost.
 
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Calum said:
because with the old system of removable bayonets the Russians never had a bit of simple gear to carry the bayonet when it was not attached to the rifle, so they tended to get lost.
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i hear thats the same reason why the mags are non-detacheable so men dont lose them.
 
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The old FNC1 boyonet was blunt, the C7 was sharpe, and boynets have been sharpened, as there is the slash in boynet feighting, and as for a spike boynet, the point will be sharpe, so i guess it depends on the era that you want to place the boynet in.
 
They are pointy enough. A couple years ago mine went flyin across the kitchen table when I was takin it apart. It flew like a perfectly balanced knife lol and landed 5 ft. away standing straight up in the hardwood table. :redface::D
 
I wouldn't sharpen a bayonet that was never sharp. It would wreck it. I think the AR application is more like a knife that is carried on person, which has the ability to be attached quickly to the rifle
 
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