My Mom used my M4 bayonet for digging weeds.
She wrecked it real good.
What could I say?
She still uses that thing today LOL
He could weld a shovel blade on to a bayonet handle; cap ‘em and bury ‘em, all with the same one versitile tool.
Now go out and look for a shovel ready job with that!
In the 1880s they made a trowel bayonet for the trapdoor Springfield rifle that was supposed to work for entrenching as well as CQB. It never really caught on and they are collector’s items today.