Ugly Sauce
Member
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2020
- Messages
- 6,250
Ain't she purty??? It's from Veteran Arms, middle of the road price-range. Yes made in India, but looks very well made to me. Very little effort to fit it. If the impossible happens, miss fire, flash in the pan, or a .690" ball over 140 grains of pixie dust fails to knock Grizz butt-over-teakettle, we'll shove this down his throat, let go, and find a tree to climb. Might buy me a minute while Grizz coughs it up.
On a fake-book group, I asked if the original Brown Bess bayonets were ever sharpened. I got a bazillion replies explaining to me that bayonets are not "slashing weapons", were for stabbing, "were not swords" and a dozen other things not answering the question, and assuming I had no idea what a bayonet was, or what it was used for.
After a bunch of those meaningless replies, a couple of good people who had originals in their collections responded that they had never seen a sharpened Brown Bess Bayonet. Dang, that's all I was asking. Not "what is a bayonet", or "what are bayonets used for", and "how are bayonets used?", or, "bayonets are not swords"? (well...the Baker bayonet was) Yes, one person told me: "bayonets are not swords". I quote.
It was quite amusing, and entertaining, but somewhat annoying also. !!!
Bessie and her new bayonet say: "thanks for listening"!