CMP cut down RIA bayonet arrived!

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  • PhillipM
    Very Senior Member - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 5937
    #1

    CMP cut down RIA bayonet arrived!

    It's exactly what I wanted, a clip point cut down RIA, altered at AFH. It was made in 1909, has the serial number 145674, and wears the typical Greek black park. The blade is coarsely sharpened and has a couple very minor nicks. Compared to some I've heard have been received, I'm ecstatic! I now have a representative of all types, a 1905, 1905E1, and M1.

    Last edited by PhillipM; 01-18-2011, 10:42.
    Phillip McGregor (OFC)
    "I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur
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    • Dan Shapiro
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2009
      • 5864
      #2
      Cool!
      "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe, while Congress is in session." Mark Twain

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        • Rick the Librarian
          Super Moderator
          • Aug 2009
          • 6700
          #3
          I ordered two, which came about a week or two ago. I have two more coming, including an RIA cut-down, due this Friday. Hoping the RIA has the same point as yours. My plan is to keep the two best-looking ones and dispose of the other two. Both the first two were in excellent shape, although at least one had the Greek refinish.
          "We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
          --C.S. Lewis

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            • Art
              Senior Member, Deceased
              • Dec 2009
              • 9256
              #4
              I got my M1 bayonet today. It's a re park (dark charcoal gray) in cosmoline and does not appeart to have been used at all since re park. the scabbard is in excellent condition. The bayonette blade has been used but does not appear to have ever been sharpened. It is one of the EN S versions which I understand are somewhat mysterious.

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                • PhillipM
                  Very Senior Member - OFC
                  • Aug 2009
                  • 5937
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Art
                  I got my M1 bayonet today. It's a re park (dark charcoal gray) in cosmoline and does not appeart to have been used at all since re park. the scabbard is in excellent condition. The bayonette blade has been used but does not appear to have ever been sharpened. It is one of the EN S versions which I understand are somewhat mysterious.
                  I think one possibility is they were made in Europe after the war, but it's purely a guess. Did it come with an M7 scabbard? Pics would be nice.
                  Phillip McGregor (OFC)
                  "I am neither a fire arms nor a ballistics expert, but I was a combat infantry officer in the Great War, and I absolutely know that the bullet from an infantry rifle has to be able to shoot through things." General Douglas MacArthur

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                    • Art
                      Senior Member, Deceased
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 9256
                      #6
                      Originally posted by PhillipM
                      I think one possibility is they were made in Europe after the war, but it's purely a guess. Did it come with an M7 scabbard? Pics would be nice.
                      The scabbard is an M7. Both the scabbard and bayonette have the U.S. Ord. bomb on them. The bayonette does have a serial number on it which indicates it almost surely spent some time as a MAP item wherever it was made.

                      I am going to post some pictures of one of my rifles soon and when I do I'll try to post some of the bayonette.

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