Comments by "Kevin Oliver" (@kevinoliver3083) on "Bowie Knife Bayonet and Bolo Bayonet for the US Krag" video.

  1. Sawbacked bayonets were were issued to German pioneer troops (combat engineers). For use as tools when building fieldworks, shelters or cutting firewood etc. Despite sensational reports in the Allied press sawback blades were not intended to inflict cruel wounds. Nor were they illegal for military use (the Swiss Army also used sawback bayonets). Sawback bayonets ceased to be issued in 1916, as an economy measure. They were supposed to be recalled for recycling. But many veterans carried them until the end of the War.
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  2. No, the US Navy used the Remington-Lee M1879 and M1885. Both in .45-70.
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  3. So you put a bardache on a Mosin-Nagant, and then you use that as a monopod for another Mosin-Nagant?
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  4. ​The latter bayonets for the No.4 reverted to a blade. The very last model even had a handle, so you could use it as a knife.
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