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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9466952, member: 20148&quot;]They were never outlawed, they just fell out of favour. Yataghan bayonets emerge in about the late 1830&#039;s and early 1840&#039;s, and then everybody wanted yataghans. Later, a knife or sword bayonet was recognised as being an advantage over a socket bayonet, which apart from holding a candle or holding down a tent, really only ever had one function.</p><p>They did produce a wound that was notoriously difficult to close, and which bled profusely too, but I very much doubt that the law and policy makers were ever troubled by this!</p><p>I have been on the wrong end of a socket bayonet, and can vouch for the bleeding a lot etc.!..................That&#039;s taking experimental archaeology too far though!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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