Original Rare British No.8 Bowie Bladed Bayonet for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle with Scabbard Breda M-37 SPRINGFIELD A]RMORY

SPRINGFIELD A]RMORY

the division attempted to root the communist Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army (PAVN) out of Binh Dinh province with Operation Masher

It has the correct mid war steel buckles

Tragically this pistol lay on the battlefield together with his owner and suffered the worst that fire could do to it

A very nice example of an interesting variant

Original Rare British No.8 Bowie Bladed Bayonet for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle with Scabbard Breda M-37 SPRINGFIELD A]RMORYOriginal Item: Only One Available. Now these are extremely rare! The British No. 8 "Bowie Knife" bayonet was developed at Royal Ordnance Factory Poole in 1946 for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle (SLEM). This rifle was not adopted, and as a result only 2,400 of these bayonets were ever produced. The design is very similar the the well known no. 5 jungle carbine bayonet, and in fact many of the same parts were used. The experimental bayonets were