[Kenton]

OK, here's a question. I have a post-ban Armalite M-15A2 that I bought for no other reason than because Bill Clinton didn't like guns. I've mainly used it to terrorize woodchucks around my hunting & fishing camp.

Aside from the obvious feature of being able to bayonet wounded woodchucks [that's a joke, son], can anybody give me any practical reason to go to all the trouble to convert it into a PPB configuration?

[Long Cut]

One reason is because a postban rifle is usually butt-ugly. Second, some (like me) like the idea of "sticking it" to the Brady Bunch.

Lastly, well, it's kind of like why one would put fancy paint and wheels on a sports car.

[Lazamataz]

Aside from the obvious feature of being able to bayonet wounded woodchucks [that's a joke, son], can anybody give me any practical reason to go to all the trouble to convert it into a PPB configuration?

Collectibility.

[SauronOfMordor]

Aside from the obvious feature of being able to bayonet wounded woodchucks [that's a joke, son], can anybody give me any practical reason to go to all the trouble to convert it into a PPB configuration?

What practical reason does it serve to put racing stripes on your vintage Mustang? Because it looks cool, and you can

[archy]

Aside from the obvious feature of being able to bayonet wounded woodchucks [that's a joke, son], can anybody give me any practical reason to go to all the trouble to convert it into a PPB configuration?

There are also a couple of fairly nice auxiliary lighting systems that mount to a rifle using the bayonet mount, and I've long used cutdown bayonet handles without blades as a basis for fitting bipods.

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[El Gato]

Aside from the obvious feature of being able to bayonet wounded woodchucks [that's a joke, son], can anybody give me any practical reason to go to all the trouble to convert it into a PPB configuration?

My wife's nephew (mine too of course) used the bayonet on his cut down SKS to finish off his first boar. The old boy had drug himself up onto a hard surfaced road before being unable to proceed any farther. They, his Dad and he, used the bayonet because they were worried about over penetration and a ricochet off that hard surface. So you never know. Meanwhile there has been no noticable drop in drive by bayonetings since the AWB and and earlier import ban.