Bayonet help please

[Bruno]

Crazy nice combat item...

I guess you should not clean it and just let it as it is

[Reibert]

Crazy nice combat item...

I guess you should not clean it and just let it as it is

I agree !

@ Mark
I also got a pile a bayo´s month´s ago, among the an 98/05 "butcher"-Bayo with sawback in quite bad condition.
Want to leave it at it is ...

BTW, your bayo show´s history !

[cornish1]

Hi guys,thanks for all your help on this bayo,very interesting indeed and after long thoughts i`ve decided to leave it as is. For some reason i just assumed it would be british bullet holes that caused this damage,obviously this isnt the case so out of more curiousity i tried to measure the bullet diameter as much as possible and have a reading of 10-11mm. Please could anybody tell me which bullet from which gun from which country made these scars?..as always thanks again for your help and great knowledge!....
All the best

Mark.

[panzerjaeger44]

it could be shrapnel bearings from an aeiral shell burst that would meaasure around 10 mills at least per ball and provide a ood peppering of them or it could easily be the expanded impact of a 303 round mushrooming as it penetrates just my guess

[cornish1]

Thanks panzerjaeger44 thats an interesting theory of the areial shell burst that i`d never thought of..much appreciated. So would this be the general consensus of most other members i wonder?

[panzerjaeger44]

i cant speak for the others cornish i just recall that shrapnell shells actually contained ball bearings and they still used them back then most other shrap is actually fragmentation miscalled shrapnell a message drummed into my head at the tender age of 17 at the royal artillery museum down on the plains of salisbury

[cornish1]

panzerjaeger44 thank you again for that snippet of info,thats what i love about this site,yu learn something new everyday!.

[panzerjaeger44]

lol well the army taught me some thing hehehe

[Bill T]

Nice Cornish! Its always Kick ASS to see a neat combat wounded relic!! I have yet to add a sawback to my collection, but you have sparked a flame inside me! My latest purchase was a 39 elite diamant k98 matching #s. Gotta love bayonets. They add such a "kick" to the good old collection! again...nice find that shows true character

[ncblksmth1]

I could be wrong but it seems I saw this bayonet before. Either in Wehrmacht Awards or on Ebay.

Bob