A Forgotten Weapon That Preppers Should Train With 

The Bayonet is more often than not used as a field knife. There was an incident in Afghanistan where a 2nd Lt. used a Bayonet on an Afghan. You are absolutely right on a bayonet! I grew up in the 60,s and Bayonet training was still done.

I just bought and mounted a bayonet on my SKS. Yea I hope crap don't get that bad but if it does then it does.

Last Christmas I gave my father a 20" A2 style AR. He's 82 and he would have likely asked for an M1 Garand, but I set him up with an optic, sling, weapon light, cleaning kit in the buttstock, 6 magazines, and a bayonet. He was 77th SFG in the 50s, and his issue was the M3A1 grease gun.

I feel like having a bayonet should be a bit of a no brainer given how many uses you can get out of one item and the amount of weight it can save you

Thanks for information The problem with bayonet is you can't run silencer while using a bayonet

I was issued a M7 bayonet card along with my M-16 A2 card to retrieve them from the armory during my time in the Marines. I noticed that my Ruger 556 had a bayonet lug but the bayonet did not extended pass the barrel enough to be useful. APG Defense offers a solution that securely mounts the bayonet but it allows to extended well past the barrel to be useful.

I went through US Army basic training in 99 we did bayonet training and hand to hand.

Best to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it! Thanks Josh!

The challenge with my AR-556 is its bayonet lug won't allow an M-9 or older M-7 bayonet to be fixed. It is too small. Like some below a bayonet like the M-9 more often gets used as a field knife. However my Grandfather's M-1 ten inch bayonet fits my M-1 Garand just fine.

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Thank you!

I completely agree with you on the usefulness of the bayonet. Psychologically it may keep someone from trying to take your weapon.

The new marine bayonet is just an amazing knife I have one and it makes a great field knife.

Great information Josh!

Bayonets and grenades, for us atleast, are still the primary weapons of the infantry. Everything else just facilitates employing those weapons. The only time I've seen insurgents surrender is when we approached a building they were fighting from with bayonets fixed. Which to their credit I wouldn't be inclined to stick around either. Pretty good indicator that they will be taking the ground your occupying, regardless of cost. A stubborn defense will include holding positions with bayonets, not having it as an option just encourages the opposition to do use theirs.

We were trained and issued bayonets in the army till about mid 90’s then my first deployment to Korea they just disappeared

As well as a bayonet being a great tool and general purpose knife I noticed that you are wearing an old school lbe pistol belt with ALICE suspenders. Vests are cool, fashionable, and avant guard but these make you fatter and wider and do not hold as many magazine pockets so you have less ammo. And you cant get out of a vest as quick and the belt can be loosesed and still keep the gear on over the shoulders for crawling under the wire or sitting in tight quarters. As far as the bayonet is concerned Korean War fighter Captain Lewis Millet led his company on a successful bayonet charge. And there is here on youtube a grainy 1939 film from the War Department (Defense Department, humbug) about bayonet techniques, the 16 inch blades on Springfield 1903 rifles. Some rough and tunble training. Would be fantastic to introduce this as a sport in high schools and colleges, would make lacrosse and football look sissy.

I can see them as useful on a breaching shotgun that may see a trench. But my fighting rifle won't be sporting a bayonet. Also, I'd rather get stabbed and did not realize that was the unpopular choice, my old lady chose the bullet too when asked.

Got an AK bayonet and it seems very useful. I must suck at sharpening ,can't get a good edge on it.

There is a time and place for everything, like most stuff I just hope we never have to use it.

Even though I pretty much knew the topic based on the poll that preceded it, I still had held out hope it was going to be about the P38 opener lol

Army Infantry also train with and issue the bayonet

A bayonet is still usable but not very often. I rather carry a fixed bladed knife but it's a personal decision.

I am no expert, but I would think that World War 1 saw a lot more use of bayonets than modern times. Trench warfare. Firearms have a lot more capacity and are more reliable these days. In the old times capacity was more of an issue and reliability.

Do you ever wear body armor? If so would you do a video of your set up?