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A new Whatzis for the holiday weekend

By The Armorer on September 4, 2009 | | Comments (25)
Actually I suspect this one will go quick.  I'm sure that some among us will grasp the details immediately.

The question is how long will it take to get to the big picture.



Ry - that's a standard short-nap indoor/outdoor carpet.

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By Fishmugger on September 4, 2009 8:31 AM
I'm missing the importance of the Arab floor covering but hey...looks like one of the pieces I had left over when I put my lawn mower back together. It didn't make much noise after that. It didn't move either.
 
By Pat on September 4, 2009 8:39 AM
 I'm thinking it's an SMLE with bayonet.
 
By JW on September 4, 2009 9:27 AM
Looks like a bayonet or grenade launcher attachment.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 4, 2009 9:31 AM
Fishmugger - the carpet info is so that Ry can have some scale reference.  He gets persnickety that way.
 
By Alan Briley, RN on September 4, 2009 9:58 AM
 It looks like a No. 4, Mk 1 Enfield Rifle Spike Bayonet. Mine is stamped "67914" and "4 MK 2*" on the opposite side, with a few other stamps I can't figure out.

Alan
 
By ry on September 4, 2009 10:09 AM
Dang it.  I've seen this in the Armory a bunch of times.  I just can't think of the whole yet.


And, hey, someone has to be cantankerous around here.
 
By Fishmugger on September 4, 2009 10:33 AM
OK then...and I defend Ry's right to be can'tankerous.

After searching through the Castle's picture library, I'll go with the Bayonet theory but I can't pin it to an Enfield.
 
By Cannonshop on September 4, 2009 11:22 AM
I'll go with the Bayonet, and hope the Armorer's being kind enough to post a Whatsit that I can actually 'get right'.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 4, 2009 11:30 AM
Oh, like I said, Cannonshop - I think you guys will get the details.  It's the big picture that will stump you.
 
By Rod Thorsen on September 4, 2009 11:42 AM
What it's mounted on looks a little funny, if memory serves as to how this would look mounted on a SMLE. 
 
By BillT on September 4, 2009 12:05 PM
Plug bayonet for an M5A1's main gun.

USMC version, of course...
 
By Kirk on September 4, 2009 12:28 PM
"What it's mounted on looks a little funny.." 
I'm guessing that is part of the bigger picture here.  Normally, the spike bayonet would be fixed up against the front sight guard on a No. 4.  In this picture, it appears to be mounted on something different.
 
By McVickers on September 4, 2009 2:12 PM
Looks to me like a SMLE No.4 'MkII Bayonet' (the most common) attached to the end of a British Army entrenching tool helve/handle of the same era. The addition of the bayonet lug on the end of the e-tool's helve was developed in 1944 (but did not see wide use until after the end of the war due to it's little importance in the resupply-chain list), to provide the infantry with a tool for probing for mines, utilising equipment already carried by the soldier. Am I right?
 
By Kirk on September 4, 2009 2:20 PM
Hmmm...by jove I think McVickers might be the winner.  A Pattern 1937 E-tool with spike bayonet.  Well met, stout fellow.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 4, 2009 3:10 PM
If you do nothing else - click McVicker's link (his name in the comment box).

My kinda Airsoft heroes, though they do look mostly like Serb banditry... especially that pic of McVic in the ushanka and double-breasted coat...  snerk!
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 4, 2009 3:14 PM
Oh, and I want to see pics of your homebuilt VicMk1, Rob!
 
By ry on September 4, 2009 3:44 PM
"can'tankerous"
Hey, wait a minute.  Have I been insulted?  Damn it Mugger, you went and used an Ol'den Thymes kinda thing and I can't tell if you're making fun o'me.  Bastiche. ;) 
 
By Neffi on September 4, 2009 5:58 PM
Oh sure... finally a bayonet (such as it is), and I'm late to the party again. Sheesh
 
By RetRsvMike on September 4, 2009 6:24 PM
kinda tough to judge scale without the standard pink quilted blankie behind it....


 
By Grimmy on September 4, 2009 7:29 PM
BillT:

The only attempt to fix bayonets to strange places by the USMC in WW2 was considered by the wing elements.

And that gizmo don't look like a propeller or wing tip mount.

Everything ground side that could have a sticker stuck to it had one already.
 
By Fishmugger on September 4, 2009 9:36 PM

Ry,

Must have been a typing error. It is not my nature to insult.

It did make it through Spell Check however. I'll have to check my dictionary.

Heh.

 
By ry on September 4, 2009 11:31 PM
'Mugger. No worries. Didn't the emoticon denote that I was farking around? RRM: Don't mess with Blankie. I've still got the ability to ankle bite. Plus, well, The Interior Guard might take exception...
 
By Cannonshop on September 5, 2009 1:22 AM
Didn't they build a 'trench knife' using old enfield socket bayonets?  I seem to recall seeing an ad for those in an old issue of Shotgun News.  One of the Militaria dealers had 'em...
 
By McVickers on September 5, 2009 5:04 AM
An aside:
"Oh, and I want to see pics of your homebuilt VicMk1, Rob!"

It's still quite rough and ready (topsight and feedblocks are back on the drawing board), but there's some photos of me with and without it in this forum thread here:
http://gunmanairsoft.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=3163&st=20
It's made entirely out of plastic around a metal internal framework. The tripod "cast brass" is just jigsaw'd plywood! Please excuse any of our kit 'hicups', we all arn't quite re-enactors in airsoft yet, but it's jolly good fun to still play at being soliders past the age of 10 ;-)

 
By Colin on September 6, 2009 1:31 PM
As mentioned, the Enfield spike bayonet, I watched a cadet get skewered in the army while attempting to shoulder arms with one. The joy of being 14years old and trying to do drill with a No.4 and bayonet. The dam thing was almost as tall as me!