ScottWashburn  | 20 Apr 2017 4:29 a.m. PST |
Well, speaking only for the socket-type bayonets on ACW muskets, I have to say that the my favorite thing is the SOUND. When I'd order my battalion to fix bayonets and I'd hear the clinking, rattling sound of a couple hundred bayonets being fixed, it gave me shivers :) |
| advocate | 20 Apr 2017 5:05 a.m. PST |
Today we have naming of parts… |
| zoneofcontrol | 20 Apr 2017 5:16 a.m. PST |
At first I really couldn't choose, but I finally decided to take a stab at it. |
 Flashman14  | 20 Apr 2017 5:43 a.m. PST |
How can you have no opinion on this??! |
| TKindred | 20 Apr 2017 5:47 a.m. PST |
What Scott says. You haven't really heard the sound of death rising up from the earth until you've heard some 800 men fixing their socket bayonets into place on a cool quiet morning, with the dew on the ground and the damp haze still misting through the trees and bush. There's this stillness, then a single voice cries "BATTALION!……. FIIIIIIX……. BAYONETS!" I's followed by a low hollowed thud as hundreds of muskets butt plates hit the earth at once, then a metallic clink and ringing locking sound as the bayonets are fitted, and then a sort of low slap as the muskets come back to order arms. It is indeed a chill, and a small knot in your belly if you have any sort of imagination at all. It is something that, once heard, can never be forgotten. |
 brass1 | 20 Apr 2017 6:08 a.m. PST |
Today we have naming of parts… And this is the polling swivel
Which in our case we have not got. LT |
| hetzer | 20 Apr 2017 7:32 a.m. PST |
The "spirit" of the bayonet is my favorite part. |
 Private Matter | 20 Apr 2017 9:29 a.m. PST |
Any part of the bayonet that is NOT pointing at me is good by me. |
 20thmaine | 20 Apr 2017 9:44 a.m. PST |
Blade is a bit of an obvious choice. I suspect it'll win. |
| MajorB | 20 Apr 2017 10:28 a.m. PST |
"Favorite Part of the Bayonet"
?? How on earth can you have a "Favorite Part" of a Bayonet???
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 piper909 | 20 Apr 2017 12:35 p.m. PST |
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| Mithmee | 20 Apr 2017 1:00 p.m. PST |
Favorite part? Simple when you get to stick it into the enemy. |
 John the Greater | 20 Apr 2017 1:01 p.m. PST |
I was going to say the "sharp, pokey part". Instead I'll go with ScottWashburn. I love that eerie clinking of my company fixing bayonet. |
| 20thmaine | 20 Apr 2017 3:11 p.m. PST |
?? How on earth can you have a "Favorite Part" of a Bayonet??? How can you not ??????? 
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| Kevin in Albuquerque | 20 Apr 2017 7:33 p.m. PST |
I'm with Mithmee, but let's consider poinking the poll creator. |
 miniMo | 20 Apr 2017 8:23 p.m. PST |
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| VicCina | 20 Apr 2017 8:35 p.m. PST |
Any part that isn't being stuck in me, is a favorite part. |
| Frederick | 21 Apr 2017 4:47 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Scott's eloquent description – the command FIIIXXX BAYONETS carries an elemental certainty to it |
| Flashman14 | 21 Apr 2017 4:55 a.m. PST |
I'll remind folks that this idea was born under the title: "What poll idea should never seriously be entertained?" TMP link Any kind of dismay or regret is unwarranted. |
| ScottWashburn | 21 Apr 2017 6:40 a.m. PST |
Frederick, actually TKindred was the eloquent one, but yes, those of us who have heard it never forget it. That sound MEANS BUSINESS! :) |
| Buff Orpington | 21 Apr 2017 10:00 a.m. PST |
The handle, please do not point any other part of it at me. Having once been evicted from Heroes Square in Limassol, Cyprus at bayonet point by the National Guard I have strong views on the matter. |
| robert piepenbrink | 21 Apr 2017 6:52 p.m. PST |
It's a situational thing, really. Are you using your bayonet to open canned goods, or to hold your candle in place for letter-writing? |
