found this old rusted relic bayonet today, can you identify it?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - found this old rusted relic bayonet today, can you identify it?

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:27:55 PM EDT

looks like it was dug up off the battlefield? grips must of rotted off? rivets are still there

what rifle, era would you geuss it was from?

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:29:38 PM EDT

[#1]

Looks like a Garand bayonet.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:30:37 PM EDT

[#2]

Looks identical to the one the armed forces issued with the Remington rolling block in the 1880'ies.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:30:56 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Looks like a Garand bayonet.

+1

I'm not overly familiar with bayonets, but that's what it looks like to me.

Clean it up, get some new grips for it, and if you don't have one already, get a rifle to attach it to.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:31:07 PM EDT

[#4]

It looks kinda like the bayonet I have for my M1 Garand.

Vulcan94

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:31:49 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Looks like a Garand bayonet.

+1

I'm not overly familiar with bayonets, but that's what it looks like to me.

I think one of the original 10-inch ones, as opposed to a 1903 longer bayonet that was cut down to 10" for the garand.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:34:04 PM EDT

[#6]

overall length is approx 16 1/2" in

blade is a little bit longer than 11 1/2"

no visible numbers or markings because of the rusted condition

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:34:44 PM EDT

[#7]

Looks like is is for the Krag. The handel is wrong for the M1.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:40:59 PM EDT

[#8]

Does look like Krag, not for a rolling block.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f195/doba76/100_0303.jpg

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:43:22 PM EDT

[#9]

I agree; it's for the Krag.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:45:21 PM EDT

[#10]

I took another close look and it does have a US marking near the hilt

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:51:42 PM EDT

[#11]

This a Garand bayonet. Notice shape of the metal in the handle.

Yours is a US made 1917, for an Eddystone M1917 rifle or M1897 Shotgun. It would also fit an Enfield P14 series rifle

If it had a hole drilled in the metal of the pommel, and the hole in the hilt were closer to the blade, then I'd say it it could be also a Enfield pattern 1907 for the SMLE No.1 rifle

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:54:24 PM EDT

[#12]

Where did you find it?

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:54:38 PM EDT

[#13]

In that condition, I don't think that it'll ever be able to be mated to a rifle again. The button that hold the bayo in place looks hopelessly rusted. I hope I'm wrong.

eta: It is a pattern 17, go get a M97 shotty

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:55:11 PM EDT

[#14]

Gewehr 98 Mauser bayonet.

Posted: 2/4/2006 3:57:04 PM EDT

[#15]

M1 Vs Craig

DienBienPhu54

Yours is a Krag

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:01:28 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Where did you find it?

I bought it for 5 bucks at a gun shop Im not sure where it originally came from?

maybe it could be from the Spanish American war?

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:34:26 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
img.photobucket.com/albums/v367/M1-Matt/bayonets.jpg

M1 Vs Craig

DienBienPhu54

Yours is a Krag

These guys are right and I am wrong!

Posted: 2/4/2006 4:59:39 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Where did you find it?

I bought it for 5 bucks at a gun shop Im not sure where it originally came from?

maybe it could be from the Spanish American war?

It's a Krag Bayonet. It's probably from Old Farmer Joes barn. Use a bit of oil or such and see if you can raise the markings on the blade in front of the quillon. There will be a US on one side and a year on the other.

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:10:16 PM EDT

[#19]

Some type of Mauser bayonet is my guess. Looks very similar to my 98k bayonet.

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:21:15 PM EDT

[#20]

Here is one that I have, it is marked with the Ordinance Department emblem, S A for Springfield Armory, and dated 1917. I don't know what it is intended to fit, but it does fit a M1 Garand, but is much too old for the M1 and too young for the Krag, possibly intended for the Enfield?

Posted: 2/4/2006 5:25:13 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
Here is one that I have, it is marked with the Ordinance Department emblem, S A for Springfield Armory, and dated 1917. I don't know what it is intended to fit, but it does fit a M1 Garand, but is much too old for the M1 and too young for the Krag, possibly intended for the Enfield?
www.pbase.com/wingman26/image/55699167.jpg www.pbase.com/wingman26/image/55699168.jpg

The model 1905 bayonets, like yours, fit both M1903/A1/A3 rifles and M1 Garands

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