#Original ak 47 bayonet serial number#

The press catch is at the 9 O'clock position. The blade is patterned after the U.S.В M4 bayonet-knife. However, in practice, the Bundeswehr did not issue bayonets to troops. H & K's G3 bayonet was widely adopted and became the G3 bayonet adopted by the German Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces). This G3 bayonet was H & K's design, dating from 1959 when H & K began producing G3 rifles. Evans published an excellent and comprehensive article on G3 bayonets that is available for download at no cost. In 2009, British bayonet historian R.D.C. I suspect that this bayonet was associated with one of the 1961-62 G3 shipments to Burma and later made its way across the border into Thailand. In advance of their beginning domestic production, Burma received 10,000 G3 rifles from Germany in 1961 and another 12,000 from Rheinmetall in 1962. The West German government granted Burma a license to manufacture the G3 in 1960, in a move to forestall Burma aligning with communist East Germany. The person from whom I obtained this example indicated that he had purchased it in Thailand many years ago.

The hit strap is missing on this example. M8A1, but with a woodgrain colored plastic body. It has a broad plain crosspiece secured by two domed rivets. The press catch is at the 9 O'clock position (when viewed from the rear). The red-brown plastic grip has 6 deep grooves. The Rheinmetall G3 bayonet differs from the more common H & K G3 bayonet in having a bright, double-edged blade that is 2.875 in.

#Original ak 47 bayonet serial number#

This example also has a serial number on the flashguard, indicating that it was actually issued. The Rheinmetall trademark is sometimes mistaken for that of Richard A.

This example carries both the Eickhorn squirrel and Rheinmetall diamond-circle trademarks on the ricasso. The bayonets were manufactured by Carl Eickhorn WaffenfabrikВ AGВ of Solingen. This is the bayonet designed by Rheinmetall AGВ of Dusseldorf when they began G3 production in 1959.