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Run out of dirt to shoot?
Who is buying a Type81?
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Run out of dirt to shoot?
Should be cast steel. Try if it's magnetic.
Should not affect hardness, but bayonets are not meant to be sharpened - they are stabbing weapons.
Sunchild2071
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AFAIK, according to my TQ1 training, we were told that a sharpened bayonet violated the Geneva convention.
Never did delve into that, just knew we were NOT to sharpen them, period.
Never did delve into that, just knew we were NOT to sharpen them, period.
I posted on this a while back. My guess from size comparing internet photos would place the muzzle ring roughly where the red line is in this photo.
Depending on how tight the actual lug secures the bayonet will determine how much slap it has.... It's not like I actually plan on running my 81 with a bayonet on it the range. I more or less bought it and the bandolier just to have them as a package with the rifle.
Depending on how tight the actual lug secures the bayonet will determine how much slap it has.... It's not like I actually plan on running my 81 with a bayonet on it the range. I more or less bought it and the bandolier just to have them as a package with the rifle.
I posted on this a while back. My guess from size comparing internet photos would place the muzzle ring roughly where the red line is in this photo.
Depending on how tight the actual lug secures the bayonet will determine how much slap it has.... It's not like I actually plan on running my 81 with a bayonet on it the range. I more or less bought it and the bandolier just to have them as a package with the rifle.
I'm afraid you might be right on where the ring may end up.
Common sense on that one tho
"Cheap, inferior, and disposable, like the soldiers it was issued to"....that sounds about right to me lol.
I've never seen an issued cast bayo....ever. The only cast knives/swords/bayos I've ever seen have been the "fantasy" variety junk, even the cheap replica #### is forged steel (made in china of course).
Sunchild2071
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I always thought it was odd that it would be against GC, for that very reason, in bold. Seems a contradiction. Second point, makes good sense as the real reason they did not want us to sharpen them. As I noted, I never did delve too deep into the GC to disspell the myth.
Sunchild2071
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Guess it will be hard for them to use that old line, then, LOL.
Mike:
It might not be evident from the photos, but the blade is almost 1cm thick at the base - it's nearly a cruciform. It's heavily built and robust - you have to hold one in hand to understand what i mean. In photos, they look puny and delicate. They are not delicate or small in person.
Also, FWIW, there is no technical reason a good bayonet can't be cast that are later machined and heat treated. Very few things are forged any longer. Typically they are either cast and machined, or machined from billet.
Materials science has come a long way since the 1960's. FWIW, every steel Ruger gun in existence is investment cast, machined, x-rayed, and then heat treated. I don't thing Rugers are known for critical failures attributable to their manufacturing process (high tech casting).
