I dig the videos Mike. In the "studio" audio only the left channel is audible. This can be easily remedied with your audio tool of choice by making the audio "joint-stereo" which duplicates a mono audio source to both channels or by copying the left channel to the right channel.
One wonders what Lt. Rice was thinking; he'd obviously never used a saw very much because the teeth are wrong for almost everything you'd use a saw for, there's no length to be useful and as a final insult, the teeth do not appear to be sharp enough (as the Swiss engineer's bayonet actually WAS effective for it's intended design) to cut through an abatis or similar barrier, as you demonstrated. You've got to wonder why the War Department even bothered making a trial run of them.
I'd think a broad and long chunk of metal like that sticking out below the muzzle might work to deflect some muzzle blast upward, pushing the muzzle down. Could be of some benefit to snipers by reducing dust kicked up. Easy to test that by doing some prone shooting then setting up a chunk of sheet metal the size and shape of that blade under the muzzle of a rifle. Of course when the inventor tried selling it to the army, smokeless powder wasn't in use. It's a bit of a shame that smokeless powder came along when it did. The Swiss government was experimenting with black powder without sulfur. Just charcoal and saltpeter. With caps or primers the sulfur isn't needed. I haven't been able to re-find the website of a fellow in Switzerland who had the history of that and was doing experiments with no-sulfur powder and dimensional replicas of handgonnes that had been found in Switzerland. Turned out that traditional three ingredient black powder performed poorly in them but the stuff he made without sulfur (and IIRC also his homebrew with sulfur) worked quite well.
It's not wide enough for a brake. It has a lot more mass than a regular bayonet, which will stabilize against muzzle rise, but it's too short for the tactics of the time.
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I dig the videos Mike. In the "studio" audio only the left channel is audible. This can be easily remedied with your audio tool of choice by making the audio "joint-stereo" which duplicates a mono audio source to both channels or by copying the left channel to the right channel.
Thanks. Still working on it.
One wonders what Lt. Rice was thinking; he'd obviously never used a saw very much because the teeth are wrong for almost everything you'd use a saw for, there's no length to be useful and as a final insult, the teeth do not appear to be sharp enough (as the Swiss engineer's bayonet actually WAS effective for it's intended design) to cut through an abatis or similar barrier, as you demonstrated. You've got to wonder why the War Department even bothered making a trial run of them.
All available evidence is he commissioned them himself. Ambitious, but gadget driven.
La baïonnette fait une déclaration très tranchante.
What a monster!
That's what she said.
I'd think a broad and long chunk of metal like that sticking out below the muzzle might work to deflect some muzzle blast upward, pushing the muzzle down. Could be of some benefit to snipers by reducing dust kicked up. Easy to test that by doing some prone shooting then setting up a chunk of sheet metal the size and shape of that blade under the muzzle of a rifle. Of course when the inventor tried selling it to the army, smokeless powder wasn't in use.
It's a bit of a shame that smokeless powder came along when it did. The Swiss government was experimenting with black powder without sulfur. Just charcoal and saltpeter. With caps or primers the sulfur isn't needed. I haven't been able to re-find the website of a fellow in Switzerland who had the history of that and was doing experiments with no-sulfur powder and dimensional replicas of handgonnes that had been found in Switzerland. Turned out that traditional three ingredient black powder performed poorly in them but the stuff he made without sulfur (and IIRC also his homebrew with sulfur) worked quite well.
It's not wide enough for a brake. It has a lot more mass than a regular bayonet, which will stabilize against muzzle rise, but it's too short for the tactics of the time.
But can it make Julienne Fries?
It would actually make a so-so cleaver with that thick profile.