Comments by "Oblithian" (@Oblithian) on "The Good Idea Fairy Strikes: American Trowel Bayonets" video.

  1. I thought about this briefly while watching your video on Bolo/bowie bayonets. I immediately dismissed this idea because a bladed shovel or a trowel bayonet would be blunted whenever used as a trowel. But I briefly entertained the notion of multiple compact attatchments for your rifle to serve multiple roles in a modular way. However, constantly in your videos you explain how fragile guns are (which makes sense, especially if you want light weight or precision). so using a gun for digging/prying seems like a fast and expensive way to disarm your own soldiers. So this trowel bayonet is literally the culmonation of the downsides to all of those ideas. Aka, the worst idea. *Though I guess using the trowel off the gun would be ok...
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