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"Surely no one would be dumb enough to try to connect the bayonet lugs on two rifles." Bored soldiers: (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Explanation: The post-WW2 French rifle MAS-49 had a bayonet mechanism that 'locked' the bayonet in place. Unfortunately, it was just the right size to 'lock' another MAS-49 bayonet inside (thanks to Tar_Alcaran for the correction), so if you got it in that position, you'd have to send both rifles back to the factory to get it unborked. Usage not as intended!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

They stored the bayonet inside the lug, back to front. You could pull it out, flip it, and slide it into the same hole pointy-end-forward.

You could disengage the connection from the back of the bayonet when it was stored, or from the front when it was deployed.

Which made every bayonet a male-male connector for two rifles. And since it was now in both the stored AND deployed positions, the only way to remove it was to drill a hole into the gun.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

First, thats amazing.

Second, I misread MAS as MAT, and two dinky stamped smgs with bayonets, locked together like middle schoolers with braces, is even funnier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

How many

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I would've done it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No regrets

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

No regerts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

MAS to MAS.

[–] BlemboTheThird 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the dual force-a-natures, a highly sought after product of mannco

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Add in some bonk juice for good measure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Big shooty stick