what happened to the millions of spare original SVT mags??

I don't fall into that category of magazine hoarding. I have one mag for every SVT. I had one extra one and when a fellow CGN member put up a WTT ad, I traded it to him. I didn't need what he was offering to trade but I didn't like the thought of someone with only one SVT and no magazine. That's sad.
 
DJdeadlyDALEK said:
I don't fall into that category of magazine hoarding. I have one mag for every SVT. I had one extra one and when a fellow CGN member put up a WTT ad, I traded it to him. I didn't need what he was offering to trade but I didn't like the thought of someone with only one SVT and no magazine. That's sad.
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Dalek, you just brought a tear to my eye with that complete load of bull$hit.
 
I've had that troll on ignore since the $200 SVT thread. He still posts replies to almost all my comments all over CGN thinking I can see or even care what he writes. It's like having a stalker with mental retardation :)
 
DJdeadlyDALEK said:
I've had that troll on ignore since the $200 SVT thread. He still posts replies to almost all my comments all over CGN thinking I can see or even care what he writes.
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How would you know I replied to you comments ?

I am a Dalek, I am a Dalek Exterminate! Exterminate !:D LOL
 
All the spare mags and bayonets are carefully preserved in rockinghorse sh!t and are shipped by unicorns to anyone who can afford to buy them.
But seriously, the last time I saw a bayonet for the SVT40 it was listed for $350. More than I payed for the rifle. You can call them rare, I call them obsolete.
The armies of the world still make bayonets for the same reason we paint picket fences white... Because that's what we do.
When my mag is empty, I take it out and put more bullets in it. Not like I'm taking it into combat and need spare mags.
 
joe.danay said:
All the spare mags and bayonets are carefully preserved in rockinghorse sh!t and are shipped by unicorns to anyone who can afford to buy them.
But seriously, the last time I saw a bayonet for the SVT40 it was listed for $350. More than I payed for the rifle. You can call them rare, I call them obsolete.
The armies of the world still make bayonets for the same reason we paint picket fences white... Because that's what we do.
When my mag is empty, I take it out and put more bullets in it. Not like I'm taking it into combat and need spare mags.
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People have done bayonet charges in Afghanistan, I believe it was the British that had some soldiers do a bayonet charge. Also bayonet charges have been done in the Falklands and earlier as well. Bayonets are also useful for more than just stabbing people, we use them for mine prodding, drill, and depending on the type wire cutting. Yes the bayonet is a little outdated but I would rather have a bayonet and not need it than need one and not have one. You don't always have the option to reload your mag.
 
It is all about the current supply and demand.....plus it is hard to say what all those former Soviet Bloc countries will find stashed away in their military warehouses as time goes on...
 
Eaglelord17 said:
People have done bayonet charges in Afghanistan, I believe it was the British that had some soldiers do a bayonet charge. Also bayonet charges have been done in the Falklands and earlier as well. Bayonets are also useful for more than just stabbing people, we use them for mine prodding, drill, and depending on the type wire cutting. Yes the bayonet is a little outdated but I would rather have a bayonet and not need it than need one and not have one. You don't always have the option to reload your mag.
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The last bayonet charge I heard of was an Australian unit in WW2. I had never heard of the more recent ones... Interesting! Any specific engagements you can quote? I'm a casual history buff and would like to read up on the subject. Bayonet use is more probable for infantry. Wouldn't do much good on a C-6 that's still mounted on the roof!
They should consider outfitting soldiers with 'Mad' Jack Churchill combat survival kit; longbow, sword and bagpipes. The most terrifying weapon being, of course, the bagpipes.
 
October 2011 Afghanistan
Corporal Sean Jones, 25, of 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Regiment lead a bayonet charge and was awarded the military cross heres a story link here
ht tp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9571522/Soldier-who-led-Afghanistan-bayonet-charge-into-hail-of-bullets-honoured.html
Sgt Chris Broome lead one in Iraq on the 14th of May 2004, was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, story here
ht tp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1485926/I-bayoneted-people.-It-was-me-or-them.html
Mount Tumbledown was a bayonet charge done by the Scots Guards and the Parachute regiment during the Falklands in 1982 heres a link which has more talks about the bayonets themselves but mentions some battles also its a bit dated being from 2002
ht tp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407233/Last-charge-for-the-bayonet-a-victim-of-modern-warfare.html

Note these are all British units and with the exception of the Falklands (which the charges were done with the FN-FAL) the charges were done with the SA-80 (must be terrifying charging at someone with a weapon you intend to use as a spear and it isn't very long at all.)
 
Grizzly Adams said:
So, what happened to the bayonets ?

Grizz
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I had confirmation from people who had personal knowledge that they were in use in 70s for sure.

Here is a deal with bayos:

1. During the war they were used as knives by scouts and assault teams. As you can imagine, Mosin bayos were useless for that purpose, PPSH, PPS and other guns didn't even had bayos. Thus, you have war time loss.

2. They were considered military weapons, so the army used them to arm non-essential guards within military camps, civil patrols, and other assignments were firearm was considered unnecessary. So, bayos got separated from rifles.

I would estimate that the ratio is about 1 for every 10 rifles is left. There could be some storage pockets where you can score some bayo stocks.

Finally, USSR didn't recycle guns or bayo unless it broken beyond fix. Some overused guns were made into training guns, but that the best extend of recycling you could get.
 
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