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Post by shiftysgarand on Oct 15, 2014 15:42:14 GMT -5
According to our friends on the UK board, the guys over at shootandscoot.co.uk make rubber M1 bayonets that fit on the ICS gas assembly. This eliminates a problem with the ICS rifle. The bayonets sell for 28 pounds. May be worth picking one up.
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Post by stuka on Oct 15, 2014 15:48:37 GMT -5
I thought they were built specifically off of real m1 bayonets? Might want to get some verification otherwise you're going to spend a good amount of money getting shipped here for it to not work like you want.
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Post by shiftysgarand on Oct 15, 2014 16:04:50 GMT -5
There's a picture of a shoot and scoot bayonet on the Uk Wwii airsoft forum. It's in the M1 Garand owners thread. I assume the guy extended the design to fit when the ICS Garand was released.
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Post by stuka on Oct 16, 2014 0:52:57 GMT -5
I had to find but apparently the work. I currently have a bayonet from field werks and I'll try to see if it will fit on the ICS. Why would I do this?Because I am dumbfonded at how the S&S fits when they apparently should not and also to try and save you guys some money if it does work. may get an opportunity this weekend www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10268&start=135
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 16, 2014 18:49:22 GMT -5
I have real bayonets and a fieldworks rubber bayonet and decided to see if either would fit on my ICS Garand. They do not although they were much much closer than I had anticipated. For the fieldworks rubber bayonet you have to slightly file out the channel that slides over the bayonet lug (even when fitting it to a real Garand gas assembly). The flange at the handle between your grip and the blade is not quite tall enough to go over the barrel and this is where the fit problem comes in. What Shoot and Scoot has no doubt done is created a slightly longer/ taller flange that facilitates a loop that aligns properly over the barrel tip and Garand locking lug. The difference in height is only off by perhaps 2mms so its very very close. Frustratingly so. Hopefully the GnG Garand (if and when it comes out) will be correct. Any used 2nd Bat conversions including the ones Brownien currently have on sale can facilitate both real Garand bayonets and the fieldworks rubber replicas with the light filing.
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Post by stuka on Oct 16, 2014 19:34:26 GMT -5
Interesting and kind of sucky. I was wondering if perhaps minor modifications could be done to make it fit but i guess not. As it stands, I have some electrical tape on the top of the bayonet ring to hold on tighter to the rifle barrel better (I have a custom m1 from somewhere =P)
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 30, 2014 2:56:49 GMT -5
With halloween outlets it seems like costume toy blades could be modified and used to create affordable bayonets although like everything its probably not as feasible as it seems. I have lots of ABS plastic in assorted thicknesses and have thought about fashioning some dummy bayonets. The rubber blades are too floppy for my taste.
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Post by insterburger on Oct 30, 2014 5:08:35 GMT -5
With halloween outlets it seems like costume toy blades could be modified and used to create affordable bayonets although like everything its probably not as feasible as it seems. I have lots of ABS plastic in assorted thicknesses and have thought about fashioning some dummy bayonets. The rubber blades are too floppy for my taste. That's a great idea. If you found a suitable rigid plastic blade, you could get one of the many cheap repro steel Garand bayos available, cut the blade off, then put it on a drill press and drill out a hole or two from the crosspiece back through the grip. Epoxy in metal dowels that protrude a few inches, then fill the base of the plastic blade with more epoxy and jam it on to the dowels. Should theoretically produce a safe, rigid blade that would fit on a rifle and stand up to reasonable field use. The biggest problem may be fitting said blade into the scabbard, as it would no doubt be thicker than RS. Perhaps the repro scabbard could be carefully "filleted" with a dremel and fattened up to accomodate the plastic blade. Could be an interesting project for the guy with the time to do it.
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