I decided to make a plug Bayonet for my 20 gauge fusil. This gauge is fairly small, so the bayonet needs a small handle. I started making a wooden handle, and then had an idea. Why not use a corn cob handle?
So I did.
My corn cob handled Hunting Plug Bayonet.
What's to keep it from coming loose in actual combat?
ReplyDeleteGood comment Gorges, I have no idea. It is a tight fit, but I fail to see how it would not pull out if stuck in a rib or the skull of a wild boar. But then I guess the damage is done, & you can retrieve it.
ReplyDeleteKeith.
Hello Keith,
ReplyDeleteI don't like very much plug bayonets because they can damage the gun barrel.
Corn cob are not very strong : it could break into the barrel and obturate it.
Regards,
Stephen
Hunh. That's curious. I've curious how it holds up!
ReplyDeleteDo y'all use corn cob tool handles in Austratila? I think I've seen it more common down south here, and generally in applications where there wasn't a lot of breaking pressure on the cob. Lots of corn cobs up in New England to though, so I suspect someone here did just that, sometime. :)
Good point Vieuxbois.
ReplyDeleteKeith.
I use them for my files & I have a corn cob handle on one of my Bill Hooks. Can't say as though I know what other people use, have not seen them used anywhere else, but then I am pretty much isolated here Jenny.
ReplyDeleteKeith.
I think most country folk have used corn cobs for file handles at one time or another.
ReplyDeleteI have seen it in a stabilized version on smaller hunting knives, but would not trust my life to it in a bayonet handle... but the idea is one I also had once, and I suppose I´ll have to try it. Thanks, Keith!
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