Well exccuussseeee me for providing intel :jester:
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No. It's interesting to see it quantified on your barrel... just not a shock. ;)
True.
I thought it would actually open the groups/shift them more than it did. I know, like T2C was saying, with an M44 Mosin Nagant I get crazy shifts with the bayonet attached vs folded. Think 6-10 MOA.
I really wish I had used a fresh target, as the impacts from the previous target irritate me a bit as I don't know which are which. There's only two of them, but I don't know if it is the far bottom two, or two of the ones closest to the paper.
More data:
11 rounds of M855 out of the same rifle at 300 yards w/ Bayonet. I attribute the "flyers" to the wind. 20 MPH is just no joke.
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In 20 years Army Infantry, I've never mounted them outside of a rare bayonet training environment, we do have, maintain, and rarely issue them though. That said, the rifle is just about as lethal striking without the bayonet mounted in the same way as if it was provided all your body weight is behind it.
There are bayonets and then there are bayonets...
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There have been a handful of bayonetings in the GWOT by US forces and at least two bayonet charges by U.S. Marines in Iraq. The first was in the early days of the invasion when elements of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment came into contact with Fedeyeen at close quarters in some marshland. The second was at An Nasiriya when a company of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines fixed bayonets when it came into close contact with insurgents in a palm grove.
While not bayonet charges during the Battle of Najaf there was heavy hand to hand fighting involving Marines to include bayoneting of several insurgents while clearing a hotel occupied by Mahdi Army.
Sure it is, to the throat...dead is dead.