So I'm digging through my box marked "MISC STUFF" trying to find a buttstock for a Savage 99. No joy with that, but I found a bayonet I don't recall the purpose for. Any bayonet fans here who might be able to help me ID it?
Frog is leather, with a large-headed brass rivet holding the two pieces together. Scabbard is steel, with a really cool interlocking joint (I probably picked it up just to study the join, as that is some neat work). Bayonet mount has a locking ring; eyeballing my calipers, I make it about .745" ID at the breech end of the tube, maybe .730 or so at the muzzle end of the tube. Blade is triangular, surcharged US on the broad flat.
Not sure what it was originally for, figured I better see if anyone has any ideas before I abuse it or lose it again.
(I know, worthless without pictures. Trying to remember where my camera is, and figure out a place to post the pics that ain't gonna hold the pictures for ransom someday.)
Thanks,
Jim