Zero Tolerance ZT-9 Bayonet

photoman12001

photoman12001

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I have been eyeballing this at a local gun shop for weeks. I made an offer that they accepted today. It's totally impractical and I have no use for it but being a ZT fan it seemed like one worth owning. I might mount it on an AR for the next range trip...

Here it is next to a ZT 0630 and small & large Ritter Griptilians with Wilkins titanium scales. The ZT-9 is a monster.

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Many years ago, I carried one every day in the factory drop-leg rig... Might as well carry it, it screams for use!
 
Charlie Mike said:
Many years ago, I carried one every day in the factory drop-leg rig... Might as well carry it, it screams for use!
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I can't imagine any time in my current lifestyle where I would carry a beast like this. The largest knife I typically have on me is a Benchmade Adamas/581/Large Ritter Grip, ZT 0620, CRK Sebenza 25, or Spyderco Gayle Bradley 1 and they rarely get used. My most carried/used knives are a SAK of some kind, CRK Small Inkosi, Emerson (Multitasker) EDC-1, and Benchmade Small Ritter Grip.

The ZT-9 will go nicely with my other ZT/Strider collaborations: 0121, 0301, 0303

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7" blade with 5" handle is my EDC sweet spot... Add a slipjoint for precision work.
 
I wish I had gotten one bit none of my guns have the lug, I mean none of the ones I had, to whom were sold off a long time ago to a guy named bob, that's all the buyers info I remember.
 
Ya wanna see eyeballs get huge, watch rioters when a trained Infantry unit fixes razor sharp bayonets. We ended many leftist thugs in Berlin with the older bayonet I wonder what these beasts would have done to those thugs. .
 
threefeathers said:
Ya wanna see eyeballs get huge, watch rioters when a trained Infantry unit fixes razor sharp bayonets. We ended many leftist thugs in Berlin with the older bayonet I wonder what these beasts would have done to those thugs. .
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I don't think I'd like to be on either end of it in that situation. Gory business for sure.
 
The ZT-9 is cool, but even if it was still made? Whew, $600? I love the Fox Knives Oplita and Leonida. I got the Oplita. I normally don't like tanto knives, as you lose working area, but on a bayonet, it makes sense.
 
OLD thread, but still pretty cool. I wanted one of these, but a bayonet in S30V never seemed like a good idea, especially when I started hearing about how this steel was chipping. Make it in S3V and I'd buy one just because. I know I'm never going to need to fix bayonets and start slashing and stabbing, but I like things that are usable for their intended purposes even if I'm never going to do it again. I don't know anyone who has used one in combat other than intimidation. Watching over prisoners or people while securing a building for example. Who's going to try a gun grab when it means you'll just get stuck with seven inches of steel?
And to be honest, I'd fix it and start stabbing tires and plywood in my backyard just because. I think a spear or tanto point would be good for penetration. A drop point is ok too.
 
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