Current bayonet trainers are wooden rifles with a minimal amount of padding at the muzzle end. As a result they are too short for older bayonets, as well as somewhat dangerous for contact work. We have found that moderately stiff circular foam insulation works well as an extension to the rifle. It is flexible, allowing hits, can simulate both sword and regular bayonets, and can be cut to length for the period and weapon with which you are working.
We are currently developing a catalog of typical bayonet lengths, by country and by time period, so that your study of older systems will be more realistic. A musket from the 1800s with a full length sword bayonet is a very different weapon from a modern M-16 with a M-9 bayonet.
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