A fun little add-on story for this rifle.
If you look at the muzzle you will see the bayonette "handle" sticking out under the barrel.
To use this you push a button on the "handle" that releases the catch, pull the bayonette out, reverse it, and push the "handle" into the tube the blade came out of until the catch clicks to hold it in place.
Rebuilt rifles have a small hole drilled in the side of the tube that holds the bayonette, older rifles that were not rebuilt do not. Here is why.
If you are REAL board in your French fort, you might take the bayonette out of your rifle, and push the "handle" section of your bud's rifle (while still attached to his rifle) into the tube of yours.
The next sound you hear is a -CLICK- as the bayonette fixes to your rifle.
It is also still attached to his.
Without the small hole drilled into the side of the tube, you cannot push the release catch, and they are stuck muzzle to muzzle...
God, I LOVE good design work. I wonder how long it took for this to happen the first time?
