Bayonet for my M1

[Perro Del Diablo]

Got bayonet from CMP few small nicks on blade. I almost couldn’t see them through the cosmoline think be month until I wash all of it if my hands. 

[Pat Riot]

Cosmoline. Such a manly scent. 

I bought a bayonet for my M1 from Sarco. I am not impressed with it at all. I didn’t read the fine print, only the “great price”. It’s an Asian knock off that I am pretty sure was made by a Vietnamese guy by a fire pit in a camp using only his feet to make and assemble it. If that were so it would be impressive...I am sure it is not so...not impressive at all. I wasted some money. I won’t even attempt to attach it to my M1 as I am afraid it would induce some kind of disease into my pride and joy.

[Perro Del Diablo]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Cosmoline. Such a manly scent. 

I bought a bayonet for my M1 from Sarco. I am not impressed with it at all. I didn’t read the fine print, only the “great price”. It’s an Asian knock off that I am pretty sure was made by a Vietnamese guy by a fire pit in a camp using only his feet to make and assemble it. If that were so it would be impressive...I am sure it is not so...not impressive at all. I wasted some money. I won’t even attempt to attach it to my M1 as I am afraid it would induce some kind of disease into my pride and joy.

At least you could use it to throw at logs until it breaks

[Pat Riot]

9 minutes ago, Perro Del Diablo said:

At least you could use it to throw at logs until it breaks

That is a good point...and a good idea. 

[watab kid]

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? 

 

 

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? it does make a difference and pretty much most were made in foreign factories over the years after our service use , 

[watab kid]

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

well IF , I am reduced to using the pointey thingey 

 

  it be time to liberate the other guys rifle 

 

  CB 

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

well IF , I am reduced to using the pointey thingey 

 

  it be time to liberate the other guys rifle 

 

  CB 

I want one for roasting weinies and marshmallows.  
 

Damnit! Auto communista drives me nuts v

[Utah Bob #35998]

3 hours ago, watab kid said:

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? 

 

 

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? it does make a difference and pretty much most were made in foreign factories over the years after our service use , 

When fellas here in the Saloon say M1 they are talking about their Rifle, Cal .30, M1 aka Garand. 
Except a few guys who might be talking about an Abrams. 

[Utah Bob #35998]

8 hours ago, Perro Del Diablo said:

Got bayonet from CMP few small nicks on blade. I almost couldn’t see them through the cosmoline think be month until I wash all of it if my hands. 

M1 or M5?

[Utah Bob #35998]

7 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Cosmoline. Such a manly scent. 

I bought a bayonet for my M1 from Sarco. I am not impressed with it at all. I didn’t read the fine print, only the “great price”. It’s an Asian knock off that I am pretty sure was made by a Vietnamese guy by a fire pit in a camp using only his feet to make and assemble it. If that were so it would be impressive...I am sure it is not so...not impressive at all. I wasted some money. I won’t even attempt to attach it to my M1 as I am afraid it would induce some kind of disease into my pride and joy.

I may have mentioned I’m paring down my collection. I have a 1943 dated United Cutlery cut down spear point I will part with. It ain’t cheap but it’s authentic. 

[watab kid]

not completely familiar with the CMP offerings , they dont have any M1905 or M1905E1 ? all would be proper 

[Pat Riot]

31 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

I may have mentioned I’m paring down my collection. I have a 1943 dated United Cutlery cut down spear point I will part with. It ain’t cheap but it’s authentic. 

Wow. Nice! Thank you for the offer. My M1’s receiver was made in 1943. What do you consider “ain’t cheap”? 

[Utah Bob #35998]

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

not completely familiar with the CMP offerings , they dont have any M1905 or M1905E1 ? all would be proper 

No. Not any more. It’s been a while.

 

[Utah Bob #35998]

51 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Wow. Nice! Thank you for the offer. My M1’s receiver was made in 1943. What do you consider “ain’t cheap”? 

Well, cheaper than  thisn.....

[Pat Riot]

39 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

Well, cheaper than  thisn.....

Maybe after Christmas if you’d be interested in selling it, I would be interested in buying it. 

[Utah Bob #35998]

27 minutes ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Maybe after Christmas if you’d be interested in selling it, I would be interested in buying it. 

$125 Black Friday special. 

[Pat Riot]

7 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

$125 Black Friday special. 

After Christmas I can call it an early birthday present to myself. 

I would like to buy it from you. I will PM you. 

 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Pondering getting an appropriate "pointy thing" for the Kid for Christmas, to complete his 1953 IH.  

 

 

           

[Utah Bob #35998]

13 hours ago, Perro Del Diablo said:

Got bayonet from CMP few small nicks on blade. I almost couldn’t see them through the cosmoline think be month until I wash all of it if my hands. 

I lucked out. The one I got from them looked darn near.unissued.

[Utah Bob #35998]

2 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

Pondering getting an appropriate "pointy thing" for the Kid for Christmas, to complete his 1953 IH.  

 

 

             

Pic no workee

[Perro Del Diablo]

9 hours ago, watab kid said:

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? 

 

 

so , just curious but which M1 - carbine or garand ? it does make a difference and pretty much most were made in foreign factories over the years after our service use , 

1941 Springfield garand

[Perro Del Diablo]

5 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

M1 or M5?

this is stock photo from CMP $36

[watab kid]

the 41 springfield would have been issued with the longer M1905 and could have had walnut scales or the bakelights with any of the longer scabbards M1910 canvas covered or M3 fiberglass but after 42 they were "E"xperimenting with cutting down the M1905 with either a spear point or the drop point as the M1905E1  and the M3A1 cutdown scabbard and by 43 they were making the shorter M1 bayonets with M7 scabbard and continued to cut the longer ones down , these would all be correct for WWII era rifles , 

 

the M5 version with the M8 version scabbard is korean war era , 

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

Pic no workee

 

That's odd... I can see it, even in your quote.   

 

Lemme try that again:

 

                

 

 

 

 

[Alpo]

It wasn't in your first post, and it wasn't in the quote that Bob posted.

 

But it's there now.

[Grass Range]

12 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said:

$125 Black Friday special. 

If Pat changes his mind I would buy it. GR

[Trailrider #896]

What I never could figure out was how you were supposed to "fix" a bayonet, when it didn't appear to be broken!   So far as I know, the last bayonet charge occurred in Korea...maybe at Pork Chop Hill.  Didn't the M5 fit both the M-1 Rifle and the Carbine?  I'm not sure how good an idea it was on the end of that little carbine.

[Pat Riot]

4 hours ago, Grass Range said:

If Pat changes his mind I would buy it. GR

I didn’t. 

[Utah Bob #35998]

2 hours ago, Trailrider #896 said:

What I never could figure out was how you were supposed to "fix" a bayonet, when it didn't appear to be broken!   So far as I know, the last bayonet charge occurred in Korea...maybe at Pork Chop Hill.  Didn't the M5 fit both the M-1 Rifle and the Carbine?  I'm not sure how good an idea it was on the end of that little carbine.

No. The M5 was specifically for the M1. It was fielded in the last year of the war, developed based on complaints from the troops that the M1 bayonet was impossible to fish and unfix with heavy gloves due to the small release button.
The M4 was the only bayonet designed for the carbine. 1st models had the leather grip.

 

Nice pics of many pointy things here

[Sedalia Dave]

Well I need the M1905 for my M1903

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

1 hour ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Well I need the M1905 for my M1903

 

So it'll look like this?  

     (Disclaimer ~ this is a replica.  It was actually pretty darned inexpensive.  Bayonet, that is... not the rifle! )

 

                         

[Sedalia Dave]

57 minutes ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

 

So it'll look like this?  

     (Disclaimer ~ this is a replica.  It was actually pretty darned inexpensive.  Bayonet, that is... not the rifle! )

 

                         

 

Yep

 

My M1903 fought with the Greeks during WWII.

[Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L]

I have these for my military rifles:

 

In the collection are bayonets for:

• Trapdoor Springfield
• 1873 Winchester Musket (2)
• Krag
• 1917 Enfield
• 1903 Springfield (RIA 1917 16 inch)
• 1903 Springfield / M1 Garand (1942 UFH 16 inch "untouched")
• M1 Garand (1942 UFH "cut down spear point"
• M1 Garand (United Cutlery)
• M1 Garand (AFH) << I bought this one for $0.50 back in the 60's! 
• M1941 Johnson (repro)
• M1 Carbine (2 USM4's)
• M1 Garand (USM5)

There are five other knives shown:

• Confederate Bowie (handmade repro)
• Fairbairn-Sykes
• Colonial Jackknife (Issued to my FIL (RIP) during WWII)
• Kukri
• USN Mk 2 (Issued to a fellow Cowboy during WWII who gave it to me)

 

[Perro Del Diablo]

Only marking I’m seeing I can’t make out as it’s on blade guard. No markings  on blade sheath is m8 Bakelite panels for bayonet. I would guess post war. May not be year correct but I’m good.