![]() ![]() ![]() Out of all of this converting and constructing, the Model 1935 bayonet was born. After all of this, each bayonet resembled the two bayonets that I am showing today, more or less, often less.Īlong with the converted bayonets, they began building their own version of the Model 1935 bayonet in their military arsenals. ![]() The old bayonets were chopped, the parts often mixed and matched, the blades reground, the scabbards cut, chopped, modified. The Turks converted their existing stocks of their old 18 long bayonets, along with other captured foreign bayonets, and foreign purchased bayonets (often surplus) from countries like Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Germany, England, Australia, many from the WW1 era. They all have very common features and dimensions, but they are definitely not all the same. The "Model 1935" bayonets are anything but standard. This is known as the "Model 1935" Turkish Bayonet. "Model 1938" was never an actual Turkish designation.Īlong with standardizing the rifles, Turkey also came up with a "standard bayonet". This model name was assigned by the US firearms companies that began importing the surplus Turkish Mausers starting in the 1970's. This configuration is known today as the "Model 1938". ![]() In the mid-1930's, Turkey started a program of rebuilding and converting all of their existing rifles to fire the new 8mm rifle round, and at the same time they standardized all of the Mausers to one standard Turkish configuration. ![]()
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