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Offline Longknife

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Butt trap Bayonet
« on: February 24, 2023, 05:31:31 PM »
I am building an "Officers" musket and I added a butt trap to hold a small bayonet. I already have the "door" made and the bayonet made. I am now contemplating a couple of different latch mechanisms. Does anyone have pics of an original, or one copied from an original? THNX,,,LK
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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2023, 08:04:59 PM »
Pretty sure one of the old rifle shoppe catalogs showed the butt plate/door assembly  and corresponding bayonet that fit through it.
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Offline David Rase

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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2023, 10:17:26 PM »
Here are a couple of photos of the one from The Rifle Shoppe I am putting together for a current project.
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Offline Longknife

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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2023, 04:19:20 PM »
THANKS!!!!
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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2023, 01:46:46 AM »
Nifty. I have all the castings for that in a parts box somewhere. Except for the bayonet, which I gave to Getz so he could make a barrel for it. That's been some decades ago now, I doubt I'll ever see that again.
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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2023, 05:05:14 AM »
Hi Ed,
I started on a similar project some years ago until I learned from Joe Puleo that no officer's fusil had those bayonets.  They were a sporting gun feature not a military one.  As Joe put it, the rank and file would have laughed an officer from the field if he showed up with a gun with such a short bayonet.  It would have been useless in battle.

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Re: Butt trap Bayonet
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2023, 05:52:31 AM »
Good for charging hogs & rabbits?
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