Help me ID this knife?

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shadowfax

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I posted this question awhile back but my scanner was broken and I couldn't upload a picture. Now I have a new scanner but I can't find the @#$@ picture I took of the knife. Fortunately, this scanner friggin' rules and it somehow managed to come up with a halfway decent scan of the knife itself placed on the scanner. Can someone look at this thing and tell me what it is? I know it's a bayonet, but what kind, who's country (if any), etc.

I found it in a rock quarry in MN when I was in about the 6th grade. The thing has either been sharpened by a moron or took one hell of a nick and was repaired. It's barely sharp enough to cut hot butter, and I haven't sharpened it becasue I have no intention of using it as a weapon (my sword and my 2 machetes will do for that purpose) so it's in the condition I found it in.

 
Must be one of those 'stealth' bayonets I've heard whispered secrets about...
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*Need to work on the pic Shadowfax. Just joshing with you!

Shawn
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If you'll just notify me when my tickets, rental car, and hotel reservation are set, will be glad to fly back there and take a look at it for you. Course, you might want to wait until I get that great book I won on Military Knives. It could prove helpful. Will I be eating at your house?

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Bugs
 
You know, you are really starting to tick me off.
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I go to look at the picture of this knife of yours, and low and behold, I am told it is not available. What do you think, I have nothing better to do?
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Keith.

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Whew! Was worried there for a minute that my trip to Wisconsin was off. But, I just remembered my fear of flying. So, could I maybe come on AmTrak?

(Don't you just love it when you're given all these "straight lines" or opportunities?
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Bugs
 
I´m not completely sure, but it looks like the issue bayonet for Spanish automatic rifle CETME Mod. C cal. 7,62 NATO (.308 Win). This is the standar personal weapon in our Armed Forces -although it´s being replaced by another model in .223- and as the license was sold to HK it becames the origin of the German G3.
Hope it helps.
 
I believe sevilla is correct about the bayonet, it looks like a CETME to me too.

However, while I'm all for national pride, and I especially love Spain, having lived there for a couple years,

H&K licensed the CETME to be produced in Spain, not the other way around.

Chicken or egg, I dunno,
but the G3 definitely came before the CETME.
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Just as a cool sidebar for the "gun people" the German MG-34 light machinegun is still alive and well, being produced in Spain and used by the Spanish military under the designation M-3.

BTW, Bienvenidos a' BFC, Sevilla!


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And the German Army uses an updated version of the MG-42, in 7.62 NATO instead of 8mm. Still a great design.

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[]Originally posted by Ken Cook:
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However, while I'm all for national pride, and I especially love Spain, having lived there for a couple years,

H&K licensed the CETME to be produced in Spain, not the other way around.

Chicken or egg, I dunno,
but the G3 definitely came before the CETME.

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Thanks a lot for your welcome, Ken.
I´m all for national pride too, but anyway I found this quote in "Infantry weapons of the world", by Christopher F.Foss & T.J.Gardner (Ian Allan Ltd, Surrey, Great Britain-1987):

'...eventually a German design team moved to Spain where a 7,92 mm CETME was produced. Subsequent models were made in 7,62 mm, and this version was selected for manufacture by H&K as their G-3.'

Curious, isn´t it?

Anyway, perhaps not the best forum to be treating about combat rifles.

Thanks again, Mr Cook, and sorry for my English.
 
Thanks for the ID guys. Now the mystery deepens. . How did a Spanish military bayonet wind up in a rock quarry in a suburb of St. Paul, MN? Too bad I'll never figure that one out ;)

 
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