There is a girl a my school and every time  she is dropped off for a dance or something of the sort her dad shows up in a 5 ton truck with a 50 Cal. Mounted on the top. Safe to say the fear factor is there…

Hi Ken, It is Prom season, and my Year 6 son wanted to attend his prom in style! It was held at a beautiful castle near to us. I was proud to oblige. Compared to the Bentleys and Aston Martins, the Jeep drew a lot of loving attention! I also received a few comments as to "where did I hire it from?" 😀 Cheers Graham

Great Bullion Patch !

Maybe you guys are right! Apparently there were bayonets made for the M1 early on with the "square fullers" before they transitioned away to the more familiar rounded fullers. A random pic of a bayonet with square fullers:    

Good guesses. I have this old broken off 1943 PAL bayonet blade in the basement and the fuller(?) of the mystery blade is a bit wider than the PAL. Would all the 1905 fullers have the same width measurement?   Here's a comparative picture:  

Found a nice set of Blackington bomber wings with a piece of history attached

Hey, just a quickie here on GILL NETS for the Survival Vests packaging I've seen...primarily SRU & OV-1 series, Air Force & Army as issued during the Vietnam War. The standard is the thin plastic baggie containing paper data, FSN & 1970 dated often stapled closed. The square packet is a thin cellulose plastic type material. I've only seen one of these. The other is the cloth / canvas like material often found with a paper layer and used to wrap & heat seal many types of G.I. items. (I really should know the technical terminology & composition here.) It is marked GILL NET in marker but packet is printed with makers (& contents?) data, dated 1965. Cheers

I picked this odd item up yesterday at a yard sale and the gentleman informed me that he purchased it at an antique store in Gettysburg decades ago.  When I saw it standing against a table I assumed it was some type of raining rifle and he explained to me that it dates back to the Spanish American War and was used for bayonet training. Therefore the original “rubber duck”.  It was made to resemble a Krag rifle with a fixed bayonet and it stands 60” tall. It also has a small leather sack attached to the tip. If it was placed there to offer protection to the OPFOR soldier it wasn’t much. It also had metal weights implanted to make it the same weight as a Krag rifle. I have no idea how rare this item happens to be. With that said the only information I found on line was that one sold on IMA and the information the gentleman gave me on the item was in fact correct.  He also sold it to me for a whopping $20 so it was a rather easy decision to buy it.  With all that said I think it’s is pretty odd as well as cool!  What do you think? 

In former iteration it may have been a M1905 bayonet, from WW1 to early WW2.   My .02   hyrax222