Yesterday's Weapons Forums

Turks have taken over my house

Fooled again. I was all ready to post my fave gravy recipe... and offer loan of a coyote trap to thin the turks out...

But that's the most Turkish bayonets I think I've ever seen in one pic. Got a rifle for each one?

And! Welcome to the craziness!

PS - the coyote trap bit really works. Spread sunflower seeds or shelled corn in a likely spot - they will find it...** peck, peck, peck.... SNAP!!** Please pass the gravy! SW

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Just a 1942 Kkale

Lol, cheers for the offer of the coyote trap but think a few of these brit/commonwealth should sort the turks out







Top - bottom pic1-
P1856 sawback pioneer swords/sidearms
Mole made in HLI marked scabbard
Wilkinson made, marked KOSB
unmarked as blade finely pitted

pic2-
2 indian/nepalese bakers
P1856,1856/58s
P1863 whitworth
P1856 cadet version

pic3-
P1887 mk3 chromed
P1887 mk3 in indian scabbard
P1887 mk1
P1875 sawback
P1879 artillery sawback
2 P1855 lancasters, 1 with altered hilt & ground falchion

pic4-
2 kukris
bushed P1876
P1895
P1876
P1853

pic5 (left-right)-
P1888 mk1
3 P1888 mk1 type2
5 P1888 mk2
P1888 mk3
P1888 mk1 type2 volunteer
P1888 mk2 volunteer

pic6-
Indian made/refinished P1903 (using 1888 blade) in india pattern scabbard
P1903 in 1939 made naval mk1 scabbard
P1903 in naval mk3 scabbard
P1888 mk1 type2 in land pattern mk2* scabbard

I think I recognize a couple of those - Pattern 1837 and Pattern 1841 sword bayonets. Maybe a Snider & Martini or two.

My fave long bayonet is for the Kropatschek. SW

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and the 88s and 03s , i want one of those 03 scabbards in the worst way , please ?????

...when I saw your title for the post I was going to suggest seeing a doctor... .....at least the anti's arent trying to ban those........yet .....all you need a rifle for each

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.............deplorable typical "bitter clinger"....

sounds a good excuse to buy rifles to me ....yes indeed ,

SW, like the kropatschek myself but aint got round to them yet, have gone off on a tangent from the turk-brit/commonwealth & added several; german, austro-hungarian & ak variants, must curb the urges & concentrate on what I set out to do but they all soooo nice

Asquare, as you can see I have a couple of P1888s spare & a P1856 sawback but alas no spare rare scabbards fo 88/03s

As for rifles, I had quite a few at 1 point but she that must be obeyed gave me too much grief about the mountain of blades so had to cut back a little





Cheers,
Al

Few more brit/commonwealth just in case the turks aint had enough yet

Aha! A Snider! I likes me some Sniders! Just bought one sight unseen from a gunborker ad with no pics for way cheep. I gots ammo loaded for it... if it ever warms up enough to go shooting. SW

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SW,
Snider was in 1 hell of a state when I bought it, think it must of of been 1 of those nepalese cache examples from IMA, was covered in dried on yak fat/grime, took ages to strip it down, clean all metal parts, cleean bore, then strip woodwork & re-BLO it, wish I had taken pics of it before, you would never have recognised it,
Al

Yep - those can be a real mess! I checked around & Easy-off oven cleaner ( blue can) works about the best on those rifles from Nepal. Yak fat is nasty stuff, but it sure preserves metal. 577 is a fun caliber to shoot. SW

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very nice rifles , and so many more blades , i see a few more i need

I would be happy with just one 1890 long blade to match my rifle

Nice collection!

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It's 5 o'clock and it's watermelon time.....................
because you can't drink beer & load rockets - TXPete

nice , just plain nice , i keep coming back to look again ,

Away to scotland for 6 days work shortly but will try & sort out a few more bayonet pics, there are a couple of interesting P1913/M1917 & a very scarce WW2 Indian fighting knife amongst those already shown. Also have a few french, german, austro-hungarian & AK variants but not sure if I will have time for those before setting off,
Aleck

Before I head off for scotland, here are the P1913/M1917 bayonets, top to botom-
1918 Remmington
1917 Winchester
1917 Remmington
1913 Remmington (indian with false edge to tip & marked DP)
1913 Winchester (chromed for ceremonial use?)






Aleck

Last few pics for this week as have to set off in a few mins

WW2 Indian fighting knife made by MIL (Metal Industries Lahore), interesting as ricasso is marked (few that I have encountered have no markings) & inspectors marks still on grip.




Aleck

interesting , first of these i've seen up close ,

The german contingent-