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Thread: How much POI shift due to bayonet?

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    Quote Originally Posted by markm View Post
    Not surprising... I'd expect to see some POI shift with that thing rattleing around on the end of the barrel.
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    No. It's interesting to see it quantified on your barrel... just not a shock.
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    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.

    Last edited by Eurodriver; 02-16-15 at 12:52.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eurodriver View Post
    The night I deployed to OIF the first time.

    In seven + years of service I have somehow never once mounted a bayonet on anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BooneGA View Post
    In seven + years of service I have somehow never once mounted a bayonet on anything.
    Are you a Marine or in the army?
    Last edited by Eurodriver; 02-17-15 at 08:07.
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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.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strambo View Post
    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.
    Muzzle ****ing someone may break some bones, but it is no was as lethal as sticking someone and driving the blade deep in the chest

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    Sure it is, to the throat...dead is dead.
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