Kalashnikov Bayonets of the World

Good info!

Awesome collection. Are you selling?

Hi.
This is my go to forum for all things German militaria.
Pretty sure you'll get great info there: https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/

Brian

To be honest, trying to understand why South Africa used what when, is pointless. I don't think they know themselves. They don't even have an official bayonet for the R4's, and half the time when they have an important parade they try and drag out old R1/Fn's so that they can mount their shiny chrom...

Agree, it does seem highly probable. Thanks Mike!

They were consecutive serials, so no real serial range as such. I believe the first would have been A1000. Don't think there are any A13xx guns. Therefore logic says there were probably about 250 guns or at most, 300 guns ordered. Maybe they gave out 100 bayonets to people, no way to know. I have pe...

I think probably over 50 left the stores. I guess there are about 250 rifles, but I can't get a firm quantity from the Recces. Maybe all left the stores and were given to operators...can't be sure. But they definitely came out with Recces and people affiliated with Spec Ops. They have been exception...

Lovely pair!

Awesome find. Also have one, need to dig it out and take pics.

Hard line to draw, as many of us consider AK related to be fairly broad. VZ58, Valmet, Insas etc for example.
I would include them if it were me, as most who collect AK bayos include those.
I would also draw the line at those that aren't weapon mounted.
Good luck, will be following the project.

More like this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/myke1419/m.html

No worries...US address is not an issue.

Feel free to post a link to your eBay page here. Or to individual auctions.
Looking forward to seeing what comes up. Could use a nice Tabuk or a few other bayo variants you have.
Good luck with the sales.

Everyone has all the common stuff. We are now all waiting for the $1000 pieces to appear for $100.

In regards to trades I think an SA 6x4 bayo will get you very far Brian in regards to pebble stuff bayos. Its a much wanted item to quite a few collectors. Yeah, considering I haven't seen any more SA ones turn up in many years now, I think whatver batch "escaped" from Recce stores up Nor...

Marco,
If you ever find a source for a mechanism....even a deact one, please let me know. I'm fascinated by the way they work and would really like an example.
That folding knife is also ultra rare. Beautiful collection!

Wow...impressive collection. Particularly the NRS2's. I've been after a mechanism for my NRS or NRS2 for years. Pretty much impossible. But I'm not giving up hope. I have a handful of assorted knives like the Polish WZ.55 and the Spatsnaz machete you have there. I don't particularly collect Com-Bloc...

What happened? Why did we go down and why is some things a bit odd?
We were hacked.
Bastard hackers. I am still trying to work out what they did. And get things sorted. Hopefully we will get back to where we were.

Thanks for your patience.

I will dig my SA ones out and take a look. I expect this came in trade from a SA collector? We are the only 2 that have had any numbers of them. I have not seen one available in years now. They remain locked up at 5 Recce. But I am trying all the time. I need some, to be able to trade for pebble gri...

My point is that those were likely never intended as belt clips. My ex boss in the arms industry was a Chinese diplomat, and we imported directtly from China. I expect at some point someone in the USA told the exporters "we want frogs or belt clips" or something, and then the Chinese start...

Imported many Chinese AK's from Norinco etc during the 90's, and also bayonets on their own...not one ever came with those metal clips that are so frequently bragged about. I have my doubts they were ever for the bayos, since they were commercial bayonets and not for issue anyways. Or someone at a C...