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mauser bayonet goes hunting knife
#376771 - 17/05/23 02:50 PM

friend had a typical war time made 98 k bayonet laying around. not good shape, rusty and the grip plates damage, sharpened some times. he want to made it a hunting knife with red deer antler grip plates and blacked again completely like it was original. working with knife only once in a decade I did it for him.

see now why deer antler plates on knife are rare. its not easy to find two pieces that fit if you don't have a large amount to choose from. the screws for the plates were beyond repair. when looking for replacement find them for sale for 30 euro each

so make new from scratch.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: lancaster]
#376790 - 18/05/23 04:19 AM

Very cool!!!
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was my favorite Tarzan knife.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: degoins]
#376791 - 18/05/23 04:30 AM

Nice job.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: NitroX]
#376793 - 18/05/23 05:12 AM

My late father used to have similar one with self made wooden grip plates. He made it for sticking moose (which he never shot).

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: Igorrock]
#376794 - 18/05/23 06:40 AM

there is a german book by the forester who had the so called elkwood in east prussia under his command up to 1945. he describe a method of poaching elk there in the 1920s. it was done by young lads with ice skates in winter time. they were on the ice looking for elk that crossing the myriads of frozen lakes and streams. walking the ice was trouble enough for the elk but with the skates they were able to reach them in short time, hunting them and over a short time bring them to fall. they had long sticks with the blade of the russian mosin bayonet on one end. this things laying around like sand in east prussia after the battle of tannenberg which destroy a russian army. the poacher kill the moose than with this spears.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: lancaster]
#376814 - 19/05/23 12:44 AM

Interesting story. Never heard that way of hunting.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: Igorrock]
#376815 - 19/05/23 02:20 AM

When I was a lad of about 10 years old, I had a paper route, on which neighbourhood dogs harassed me. An older chap, a German machine-shop owner, had his wife patch me up one day, cleaning then bandaging my dog-bit leg.
After this he took me out to his shop and gave me a WW1 Bayonet similar to that one, but with a serrated back.
I carried that knife (belt scabbard for it) with me every day from then on and only had to poke a couple dogs to stop that problem.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: DarylS]
#376818 - 19/05/23 02:37 AM

Believe it or not, having a bayonet is illegal here in this state ... One poor guy even had a targeted 4am raid because he had one ... Obviously targeted ...

As part of a legitimate collection is different though ...

I actually don't have any. I'd like a WW1 bayonet to match my SMLE .303. Like used at Beersheba by the Light Horse.

I can never understand how a bayonet is different from a large hunting knife?

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That German bayonet with the antler grips is very nice as a hunting knife.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: NitroX]
#376819 - 19/05/23 02:48 AM

here its a legal question: if you go with a bayonet( legal to own) into an inn its carry a weapon in public and forbidden, if you have a kitchen knife - same blade length - its a tool.
the stupids looking only what it was made for one for fight, the other one for cut the steak

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: lancaster]
#376833 - 19/05/23 10:39 AM

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friend had a typical war time made 98 k bayonet laying around. not good shape, rusty and the grip plates damage, sharpened some times. he want to made it a hunting knife with red deer antler grip plates and blacked again completely like it was original. working with knife only once in a decade I did it for him.

see now why deer antler plates on knife are rare. its not easy to find two pieces that fit if you don't have a large amount to choose from. the screws for the plates were beyond repair. when looking for replacement find them for sale for 30 euro each so make new from scratch.

lanc:

FYI; i am not certain about german bayos but british and i believe US bayos for springfield and up til but not including the m5 m1 bayo were heat treated to low spring temper recognizing the greater need for flexibility, not to cut hard material. i THINK most armies to the same tack.

on the whole the ones i've messed with were soft, easily cut with a file. ~28-30's RC.

the whole US series using the m3 trench knife blade (later, for m1 carbine, m14, m1, m16) were utility knives heat treated to the '50's RC. very useful for typical knives chores being made of SAE1080.

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Re: mauser bayonet goes hunting knife [Re: 9.3x57]
#376835 - 19/05/23 02:18 PM

steel quality may not the best, in the end its a war time mass product. the cutting angle of the blade is to big from the start to get a real sharp knife out of this. its more meant by the owner in the sense of a Hirchfänger http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=374850&an=0&page=0#Post374850

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