Scattergat

Hi guys, I think I know who has insisted on the handguard: the bayonet instructor. you're not going to grab the gun by the pump in a bayonet fight, you're going to grab it on a non moving part (most likely the barrel and the tube behind the pump), which is going to be fine, till the barrel's hot. Here comes, in my opinion, the need for a handguard.

"This is my BOOMSTICK!" Love AoD, but I find it incomprehensible that it's already 25 years old [and since those darn Millennials won't watch anything that's "so last week," the joys of that flick are hard to share around any more... :-\ ]

Bruce Brodnax

I believe I stumbled on a photo of a french officer with one...

C&Rsenal

send pics.

C&Rsenal

An excellent resource

C&Rsenal

Honestly the handguard was required so you could use the same bayonet training as the rifle, but I find that to be a dubious quality for such a weak part.

C&Rsenal

Great show! Love the Army of Darkness reference too. You might violate some safe spaces assuming the gender of the shotgun, however.

Chairman

Loved the episode, also loved the passing reference the Remington Model 12, my first and favorite .22 rifle. Did not know it was designed by Pedersen.

Nuke Road Warrior

Great episode. Your descriptions of the European reaction to the shotgun made me think to replace the bayonet with a "tommy hawk" creating the worlds first pump action halberd .

I agree: Bruce Canfield's books are da bomb. He manages to keep boring reference texts from being boring. *That's* what I call an author!

Bruce Brodnax

1. Not everyone grew up with access to firearms even in the USA so would need to be taught (this also relates to many many comments about having to learn how to use a firearm reference Mae's dislike of the early Long Lee's for that reason springs to mind) 2. Having taken out half a dozen or more Bosche in your trench raid your then apply your bayonet to the remainder, if you reference early film/photographs of bayonet drill the left hand is in an overgrip on the barrel, not something I would like to do with a hot barrel. Having fitted your bayonet it would seem a waste not to get it dirty. As an aside I got the repeated reference to the difficulty of topping off the "chamber" with a single cartridge, the same problem one has with an Ithaca (Model 37?). Keep on with the great work, although I refrained from joining in the shock of Mae not choosing the SMLE as the bestest weapon on the face of the planet ever, ever, EVER I would like to see a comparison of hr top 5 NOT IN A MAD MINUTE, but with a rapid aimed second shot, from the shoulder as troops were trained to do, and not dropping the rifle to waist height to slap the bolt about :). Love the show and look forward to the rest of it.

Keith Hickson

Hi guys a couple of thoughts from across the pond. Othias made the apt comment of "Down here in the Dirty South we soon learned to keep our pinkies away from the hot barrel" (or something similar). This was in regard to the wooden handguard, now my thoughts for what they are worth.

Keith Hickson

aye

C&Rsenal

Good to hear, just gotta make some final adjustments

C&Rsenal

good to hear

C&Rsenal

Love me a Pedersen!

Now there's a scattergat I have some interest in.

Joseph S.

It has arrived!

Andrew MacDougall

Acquire US Army FM 23-25 on use of the bayonet. You can't use a bayonet with a hot firearm without a handguard. And as bayonets were climax-of-the-fight weapons...you get the picture, eh?

Another great episode. The grenade myth was very interesting. Is it possible to chamber a round first then load the tube again for that 5+1 capacity? My birthday is the 23rd of June so the t-shirts coming out in a few days is probably the best present I could get. I'm getting one of each, America and Austria-Hungary. I've been waiting for them to be available so please let us know how to place orders when they are.

TwentythreePER

Just the thing I needed after a rainy Alaskan monday.

Daniel R.

Did you get a toy?

C&Rsenal

Just in time for me to eat my late night McD's meal after a long day at work.