Krag bayonet

[etprescottuk]

Beautiful Krag bayonet you have there, I'll admit the title post caught my eye, had to remember where the Krags origins are from. Here is my 1902 U.S. Krag bayonet found it out in the desert in Southern California in the 1980's not as nice as yours. Old timers said the National Guard practiced out there in the old days, guess some guardsman lost it, my best find.

[ovenpaa]

Very nice, and probably a bit more history as well, mine was found on a well known auction site so not quite as exciting. My very first bayonet, an 18" Sanderson came from a junk shop many years ago for the princely sum of GBP2 - I was a school boy at the time and had no way of hiding it other than sticking it up my jumper and then catching the bus home....

[etprescottuk]

Very nice, and probably a bit more history as well, mine was found on a well known auction site so not quite as exciting. My very first bayonet, an 18" Sanderson came from a junk shop many years ago for the princely sum of GBP2 - I was a school boy at the time and had no way of hiding it other than sticking it up my jumper and then catching the bus home....

That is a great story ovenpaa, classic. I wonder how the police in this day and age would react to finding a school boy packing a pattern 07 bayonet. My favorite model and style bayonet by the way.

[ovenpaa]

That is a great story ovenpaa, classic. I wonder how the police in this day and age would react to finding a school boy packing a pattern 07 bayonet. My favorite model and style bayonet by the way.

Probably not very well.... I used to catch the bus into town to buy 9mm shotgun cartridges when I was a 14-15 year old school kid, only one shop would sell them to me and I had to take my school tie off so they thought I was older (Yeah right....)

That is the reason I did my best to grow a moustache so I looked older :lol: