(August 23, 2016 at 4:34 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You'd feel pretty fucking stupid using a hunting rifle sans bayonet when some Indian came out of his woods swinging a tomahawk at you. Bayonets were not ornaments. They were meant to keep people from bashing your head in while your musket was empty.
But this was Government-on-the-cheap, so the rifles were in short supply. Hence the need to BYOR.
And when it got to spear time the shit had hit the fan anyway.