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Originally Posted by JCF
i've studied the US Civil War since I was a kid, and visited battlefields...
But when I fixed the bayonet on this M42 (1852) my understanding of what those men then faced instantly changed...
and not hard to tell which holes were made by the .69 [buck and] ball
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The reason for the tri-form (3 sided bayonet was because it made a wound that was slow to heal. By the time of the Great War of Secession, they had been in use for about 200 years. The Remington rifles however, used a very long and wicked bayonet that looked like a short sword! That one was pretty intimidating also!