UTICA M4 "Carbine" Bayonet

[2ad82recon]

Just wanted your take on this one guys.....i have been wanting a right price one of these for a while.......

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...p;rd=1&rd=1

 

I brought it for what i thought was a fair price as i have a spare short hanger M8A1 scabbard.

 

Now was UTICA a WW2 maker of these and also how did i do pricewise?

 

How can you tall a post WW2 one of these M4 bayonets

 

I know its NOT for the minty purist....but it looked right to me ?

 

Regards

 

Lloyd

[Greg Robinson]

Just wanted your take on this one guys.....i have been wanting a right price one of these for a while.......

 

I brought it for what i thought was a fair price as i have a spare short hanger M8A1 scabbard.

 

Now was UTICA a WW2 maker of these and also how did i do pricewise?

 

How can you tall a post WW2 one of these M4 bayonets

 

I know its NOT for the minty purist....but it looked right to me ?

 

Regards

 

Lloyd

 

Lloyd

 

Like you said, not a minty piece but it's an honest one. Manufactured in 1944-1945, it probably didn't see service in WW2 but they remained in service through the 1960's. With the exception of a 1953 CAMILLUS contract, all leather handled M4's were made in WW2. However, many...many of them were reworked/refinished in the 1950's and '60's for use by US forces and/or use by our allies overseas.

 

When I was buying M4's, and this was several years ago, you sometimes found nice ones with scabbard for not over $100 on ebay. But times have changed so $45 might not be a bad price today for a well used one w/o scabbard.

 

Greg

[2ad82recon]

Thanks Kabar....thats what i wanted an "honest" WW2 era M4 bayonet for my surplus M8A1 scabbard.

 

As long as i didnt get stung too hard with a "wrongun"....:-)

 

Regards

 

Lloyd