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New Zealand post wont deal with any weapons so if you buy a bayonet and get a import permit its a nightmare. i had a arrange a courier company to go to the international mail depo to pick up my bayonet. was very lose to "lost" with paper work, but im thankful i got it. i wont be doing that again though.

Useless weight and bullshit, that was only used if you were told, DP1 object LOL

The "M" stamp on the M9 pommel indicates the blade was manufactured by "General Cutlery" It stands for M9/Lancay/USA. It is also found on the ricasso of the blade.

G'day PNS, I've got a quick question for you. I'm a Military Historian, in my retirement, and a hobby of mine is historic knife collecting. I was a RAAF member back in the early 70s. I found this video really interesting and because you talk about 'pointy stabby things', I reckon I'll become a subscriber. 😉 The question is for you or anyone who can help reduce my ignorance. When I was in uniform we were issued with L1A1 SLRs which had a pretty much standard bayonet. I noticed the bayonet in this video has a rectangular hole with rounded ends in the middle of the blade towards the point. I'm guessing it might be some kind of a custom hole to use on the rifle as a 'spanner' when breaking down the weapon for cleaning etc. Could you please tell me the intended use for this feature as I'm seeing similar holes in more and more knives? Cheers, and all the best. Bill H.

Thank you for the video but i have never saw a Mossberg 500 with a Bayonet lug now i maybe wrong i do not think so .

I really like the dagger blade on that bayonet, you can easily imagine a soldier using as a combat knife. I wish the Austen had gone through further development and been more widely adopted. The Beretta M12 was similar in execution and it was widely used across the world for many decades. I acquired some for a Police Department when I was in the gun business and I was less than impressed by the lightweight components. The Austen seems more robust. Thanks for another outstanding video on a ridiculously rare bayonet! I wonder if the molded aluminum handle was inspired by the numerous combat knives that used molded aluminum in the Pacific theater during WW2.

The bayonet looks really solid . Good of the museum to give you access to their collection 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

I know it’s an obnoxious cliché to say “Now that’s a knife!” to an Aussie, but, yeah, that’s a knife!

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Awesome bayonet, I would love to own one but probably a better chance of winning the lotto. Also you're actually incorrect, the Austen & Owen are both sub-machine guns and were called as such here in Australia at the time they were manufactured and used, all the wartime manuals, MGO's and literature refers to them as such, as does Skennerton himself in his books. It wasn't until post WW2 when the army was restructured to fall in line with British standards that sub-machine guns were renamed carbines, by which time the Austen was well and truly obsolete.

Bloody top video mate 👍

The fullers are not swaged.. on old bayonets they are drop forged in a die . The longer blades are forged jn a rolling forge.. a rolling diecthat forms the blade shape and taper in a hair of rotating dies

The design of these are so bad. Dont understand why they couldn't just make it full tang with a bit thinner blade and use 420hc with a decent heat treatment. Dont understand how they can screw it up so bad. The older m16 bayonet was fine.

The prisoners taking bayonets is one of those urban myths, the purpose of two clasps instead of one allows the replacement of a normal bayonet catch which is 2 complex fitted parts (stud and catch) with 2 catches made of simple pressed steel. It also means should you brush up something and press the catch button, you have to press on both in order to remove it, so it has positive engagement. It is the reason why the L1A1 British bayonet ended up with a revised L1A3 with recessed catch, it was possible to "bump" the button and detach the bayonet easily

Just as an enthusiast I love the M9 as well as these and just about every other bayonet under the sun.

Why would anyone confiscate a bayonet!?!? Hey let’s do an exchange, we trade you guys our liberal gun NzS and you guys give us your unwanted law obedient gun lovers.

Oooh. That's looks amazing...brutal, too.

If you didn't break your M7 bayonet on the bayonet course you weren't being aggressive enough . They were gutless . A least the Buck M9 was differentially heat treated and didn't often break.

I have a Smith & Wesson made copy of this M9 knife/bayonet. I brought it shortly after I left the Army, so it's only been part of my civvi collection, and has only been bush on a few hunting & camping occasions, so it's never really been given a hard work day.. Also because I use other tools, generally, for the really hard jobs, so as not to unnecessarily damage or destroy my primary blades & tools..I also own a KA-BAR with a tanto tip, and other knives that would generally be a preferred EDC choice, over the M9, thb.. Which is another reason it no longer comes out much anymore.. I also don't have my AR-15 anymore..(the gov't here in Australia stole mine from me)..and No more F-88 AusSteyr's in my life anymore, to try it out on either..So its becoming somewhat redundant. I've considered selling it a few times, but so far haven't as yet.. It looks the same as the 2nd one you show here, both knife & sheath, and has all the same details and functions..including the wire cutter & stone in the back of the sheath, and the 2 leg strap options on the sheath, as well as the 2 seperate retention straps, one over the knifes' hilt, holding it into the sheath, and the 2nd one around the knife's grip directly. Paid just a tad under $200 for it..Not sure on its true material quality as a 'serious hard-use' knife & actual bayonet though, being only a licenced copy.. If anyone has any experience with the S&W version, and its pedigree compared to the 'real deal' M9 in terms of 'cheap copy vs real gear' I'd be interested to know what your experiences are/were with them. Cheers.

How much is the LanCay M9?

I’m holding the first one in my hand rn is it worth anything? Just sayinng I would like to know but I’m not going to sell it becuse it’s from a cus that fought in d-day

This is just the beginning. Next they will ban forks.

Where did you find the replacement angled frogs?

I heard that the original m9 is bad bayonet. so this one. is it better or as bad as the original?

What’s this Papuan bayonet you mentioned, is it from the Dutch Papuan volunteer corps or something from PNG like the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles? And where did you source it if I may ask?

I was just looking mine over and I have one with unit markings on the side of the cross guard (curved surface not flat) I16 No. 1865. scabbard is EAB and Blade is EJ AB, as is handle. Blade number is 898. The EAB scabbard is not numbered. Mine had been sharpened so much that the sharp edge is slightly wasp waisted. I do have a new old stock replacement blade in the event I ever break mine. Holds a razor edge very well.

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Make irrelevant videos?

Having carried both the M7 & M9 bayonets, the M7 is the superior knife & superior bayonet. I bought my own Imperial M7 after the M9s came out, and left the M9 in my bag.

Love the history and relationship you form with one. But trust me, they don't cut concertina wire. 😂 It's more for opening rusty ammo boxes, and bending your tackle buckles in Jump School.

so how do you get one of these

why do you people put up with these commies in power? vote them out and bring your country to FREEDOM!

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Where are they made in Australia?

What is the bayonet at 1:38?

I have a replica version of the okc m9 bayonet from temu and didn't come with a sharpening stone and didn't have hole for a rifle barrel

Information and video is wrong. This bayonet is a Swiss M 57

OMG! You continue to amaze me with these museum videos. I really like the dagger blade on that bayonet and I have always been in lust with AuSten SMGs. I would love to get my hands on one and give it a workout on the range. How popular were AuStens among the Aussie and Kiwi troops?

Very interesting and educational, as usual. That Buck with the Broad Arrow would command a high price on this side of the Pacific. Other than your video, I've never seen one (at least that I paid attention to.) I see you have a LanCay and a Lan-Cay (with dash) marked M9. The no dash is the first version from the 1992 contract and the with dash is the 1994 contract blade. I'm still searching the planet for an Aussie M7 with the camo scabbard.

SG42 ..a repro?

Drone poker? 😅

Probably using the knife blades as shrapnel in homemade explosives.

When the platoon leader said "Affix bayonet" and you stab someone's butt several states over

The weakest link in the M9 saga is it is stainless and that will break in any real Bushcraft. They tried to mediate with thickness, but that just added weight. The USMC is a much better bayonet, made with high arbon steel. Honestly, taking an AK bayonet and producing it 1 - 2 inches longer (about 5 cm) in a high carbon steel like 1095, instead of the super hard spring steel they're usually made of, is probably the best design. The M9 was supposed to be a super AK bayonet but in the end it's a pass. The M7 is a better choice or the USMC is the best choice. Supposedly Glock knives are made to function as bayonets on AUGs, and that's a decent M3/M7 style utility knife.

Typical Australian Army procurement, bulky heavy POS bayonet, would be better off with the previous modified M7, at least it would be carried.

Ha, yeap, don't make a complaint and get into trouble... So they are vindictive arse holes.

Boarder force are a bunch of clowns, too stupid to become cops.... Now that is saying something.

Its all pretty confusing. Im trying to find out the rules on a Vietnam era flak jacket and getting a different story each time.

I had “bayonets” seized several years ago and got them both released when I explained their own rules to them “being a doubled edged blade”. I explained that the M9 is a survival knife/tool.

Yet you can buy bayonets legally all around Australia. You can own daggers in some states. Borderfarce