Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Good Idea Fairy Strikes: American Trowel Bayonets" video.

  1. Agreed; that looks like something deeply unpleasant to be hit with.
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  2. 10:53 - Mounting the trowel bayonet with the blade vertical to the right of the barrel actually seems to me like a more useful way of mounting it than the standard underbarrel mounting (which, for a trowel bayonet, would necessitate that the blade be mounted horizontally); with the blade on its side like that, you could wield the rifle+bayonet like an axe in an overhand chopping motion (using gravity to add to the force of the strike, instead of just the soldier's muscle strength), rather than being restricted to thrusting it or making side-to-side chops and slashes. (I suspect this might've been on the mind of whoever came up with that style of mounting!)
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