Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Yugoslavian bayonet M-48





This is old Yugoslavian bayonet from a rifle M-48 I purchased in November, but I completed it last week; the leather I got.

M-48 rifle is actually a identical Yugoslavian copy of German Karabin 98 - They were manufacturing them after World War II., mostly in city Preduzeče(Serbia)...and so these bayonets.

It's made from not so quality steel(although, the bayonet is used for stabbing and slashing, not exactly cutting or ripping), it has rounded groove for the nearly whole lenght of the blade.

Guard has a hole 15 millimeters in diameter drilled through, it's used for attaching the bayonet to the rifle. Same as the groove on the back side of handle, where is located a spring in a button, that keeps the bayonet at it's spot.

Wooden plates are attached to knife with two steel nuts, firstly screwed together, then hammered and filed down. It's quite compact alltogether.

The back of the handle is shaped as most of bayonets, for grip, that is hard to be pulled out of hand -> an eagle's head.

Stamps on knife are two triangles, PREDUZEČE 44 (town, where it was made and factory number) and a serial number - 65642.

Scabbard is made from two parts, metal and leather part: Metal scabbard is long 270 millimeters and 40 millimeters wide at it's widest point. It has a spring in it, to prevent the bayonet from falling out.
The leather part is attached onto scabbard through a small hole, that hardly fits to a metal grip. On top of it, it has belt for tighting the blade into scabbard and a loop for belt.

All metal parts are blued, same as scabbard.

Leather is black/dark grey colout and is double stiched.

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