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Johnny Oh's avatar

But those green gloves don't even match the ensemble! Even IF the stainless "goes with everything". Cool indeed. 😀

Tom from WNY's avatar

That sharp sticker belongs on a Winchester 1897 Trench Gun. On a Remington 870, meh.

Reeeetired's avatar

Yeah, looks cool, but if he's that close I'm dead.

Jack's avatar

Yeah, cosplay is always fun. I’ll take a light, thanks.

Joseph L. Roberts's avatar

Lights on firearms, like tracers, work both ways

Jack's avatar

The trick is knowing how to use them. There’s no gadget that beats training and judgement.

Joseph L. Roberts's avatar

Few men are killed by the bayonet; many are scared by it.

Bayonets should be fixed when the firefight starts - George S. Patton

My Mossberg is a 590a1-mod 50771; it came with a bayonet

(https://tombstonetactical.com/product/590-a1-spx-shotgun-12-ga-20in-cb-8rd-black-parkerized)

(closest now is the https://www.mossberg.com/590a1-retrograde-51665.html)

Paul Koning's avatar

I've seen bayonet training manuals on gutenberg.org, you might check those out. :-)

alexander.helphand's avatar

That's very impressive.

Dale Flowers's avatar

I have always a sartorial soft spot for Navy blue camo. But that Sharp Pointy Thing looks like da no ka oi, one bess kine, sine qua non of accessorizing. BZ!

Joseph L. Roberts's avatar

I always wonder WHY. Were they going to try and hide on the water, or were they just "keeping up with the Joneses" uniform wise. Why go away from dungaree bell bottoms and crambrey shirts. Same mindset that put all enlisted in the CPO uniform for dress.

Dale Flowers's avatar

I always supposed that the answer to "Why?", Joseph, was that each new CNO wanted his legacy to be, was to have left after his tenure with having his sailors in the snappiest uniform ever. Which, of course, was paid for out of the paltry monthly uniform allowance we got that was almost enough to keep us in skivvies, hankies and a few six packs of beer before payday.

palooka's avatar

i hecking love working with a bayonet !

Don Juneau's avatar

What you need is a old Swiss sawback engineer bayonet. They can be modified to fit standard M1 Garands, I'm pretty sure they could be done for shotguns.

CBMTTek's avatar

Bayonets are old and busted.

The new hotness is a bayonet mounted chainsaw.

Reltney McFee's avatar

It seems to me that a Mark 1, Mod 0 malefactor might feel confident that I won't shoot him, but might wonder if I would pin him, like a butterfly, to (the floor)(the door)(the wall).

And, hesitating to wonder, might preserve his life.