This Is The First Bayonet #Shorts

The plug bayonet was designed to protect infantrymen as the popular pike had begun to be phased out at the end of the 17th century.

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[wotwott]

If you put powder in the gun and plug the bayonet, you could technically give a cavalryman a really bad time by pulling the trigger

[littleNorwegians]

Bayonets are fascinating, especially how long they lasted, because it was like... at the end of the day, if all else fails, a human wants its pointy stick.

And it's not a sentiment without merit.

[craighagenbruch]

The cavalry definitely got the point, they really were on a sharpened edge

[drippygeorge.]

History is so cool bra.... it’s just filled with people going “hmm....what can I do?” Then proceeding to do that shit

[duncanbryson]

A bit like forgetting to remove the blank firing attachment if switching from blanks to live rounds.
🇬🇧 Territorial Army, Royal Engineers in the 70s.

[vast_bluesky]

something the video doesn't mention specifically is that muskets in the days of the plug bayonet were single-fire and were slow to reload so an exploding barrel wasn't really an issue if you first shot a volley into the enemy cavalry before putting the bayonet into the gun

[TheMr.riddle]

A musket with bayonet is better as a spear that shoots rather than a gun that stabs

[AFloridaSon]

Well at least you can get one round off before you plug it up, so it's still better than a pike.

[LivingCrusader]

Birth of the bayonet. I wish all US armed forces still practiced with it.

[ChArLiE-chaz]

Oh... I was hoping he would say we used to fire these knifes across the fields when we ran out of bullets

[Ermuggo]

what if you just load powder and no ball? can you fire the bayonet in some random direction?

[josh]

Somebody explain the notch in the blade?

[mdj.]

I was watching a YouTube on Bayonets getting shorter after WWI. What they didn't seem to take into account calvary no longer in the field. Bayonets were to make your musket into a pike...

[the.other.ian.]

my brain added butt before plug when I first read that

[Diogolindir]

As a comment I saw in another video.
The question is: when did spears start to shoot bullets?

[plantainsame]

I wonder if someone back then tried to modify their gun to shoot the bayonets just long distance stabbing

[Fooma]

Somebody is having some fun editing these😂

[DHG]

Was it just me that thought when he put the bayonet in the musket it was going to be lake a early draft for a bazooka

[kittyn]

Nowadays there's little knife under the barrel sometimes
Ive seen a whole god damn wood cutting axe on there
And a literal chainsaw although you'd mostly be shot while trying to turn on that shit

[prod.byzaha]

you just know some dude tried to fire his bayonet🤣