Sam Alexander
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But the bayonet itself was not, here's a mass-produced bayonet.
It's, no, this bayonet fits your fucking gun, and it's supposed to...
you know, whether it's hard to put on or easy, you hammer, you, you hammer that bitch on and you leave and you don't take it off ever to, to this day.
There is no Russian phrase for fixed bayonets.
Nope.
It's just, they're on permanently soldiers going up into world war two, even red army, poor, the, your average poor red army infantryman had no frog for his bayonet, nothing to stick it into except for Germans and each other.
You guys going to sell venison jerky with your jerky line?
Indeed.
That is also why the M44, the little carbine variant I had, again, that mentality of the bayonet has to stick with the rifle stuck under the M44, which is why it has a permanently attached side folding bayonet.
Oh, those are Chinese.
So by the end of World War II, the Russians kind of get over.
Well, the SKS, yes.
But with the AK-47, they get over this.
The bayonet must be permanently attached.
The Chinese, with the Type 56...
do not get over that one the type 56 has that under folding spiked bayonet they retain that from the from their sks's yeah i'm just saying it's it's not the most uncommon thing in the world it's not historically speaking no it's not it's just an interesting little
Man down.
She took a fall.
Now, I want to talk about this one.
It's an interesting fluke that nobody else, at least that I know of really gets into.