Upon reading Law’s BotW, on page 317, dealing with the Japanese contract of 1937, for 20,000 K98’s, he quotes “specifications” ver batum . . . .
“Art 43: Final Testing of the Bayonets. After testing, the bayonets will be mounted onto the corresponding rifles and after they have been numbered, they will be packed together with the rifles of the same number,”
My question is . . . .
Was the German government/ordnance, at this early date, as “arcane” as the Japanese were as to issueing the rifle and bayonet with the same serial?
I have a friend who was in the Russian army in the 1980’s, and he tells me he had a “matching number bayonet for his AK.”
What say ye?
“Art 43: Final Testing of the Bayonets. After testing, the bayonets will be mounted onto the corresponding rifles and after they have been numbered, they will be packed together with the rifles of the same number,”
My question is . . . .
Was the German government/ordnance, at this early date, as “arcane” as the Japanese were as to issueing the rifle and bayonet with the same serial?
I have a friend who was in the Russian army in the 1980’s, and he tells me he had a “matching number bayonet for his AK.”
What say ye?