page_title: M1905 bayonet
section_title: Scabbards
hierarchical_section_title: M1905 bayonet / Scabbards
caption_attribution_description: English: MARINE BARRACKS WASHINGTON � Cpl. Josh Leuthold, a 22-year-old Reno, Nev., native, sheaths a M-1 Garand rifle bayonet after drawing his gear from the armory for a morning drill practice session.
context_page_description: The Model of 1905 bayonet was made for the U.S. M1903 Springfield rifle. This designation was changed to Model 1905 in 1917, and then to M1905 in 1925, when the army adopted the M designation nomenclature. The M1905 bayonet has a 16-inch steel blade and a 4-inch handle with wooden or plastic grips. The bayonet also fits the U.S. M1 Garand rifle. From 1943 to 1945, a shorter, 10-inch, bladed version was produced with black or dark red molded plastic grips, and designated the M1 bayonet. A number of M1905 bayonets were recalled from service, their blades cut down, and they were reissued as M1 bayonets.
context_section_description: The original M1905 scabbard had a wooden body with a rawhide cover and employed a wire belt-hanger which went over and around the belt.  The M1910 scabbard was covered in canvas with a leather tip to prevent the blade tip from tearing the material. A wire hook that engaged grommets on the cartridge belt replaced the belt-hanger.  The M1910 scabbard was the primary scabbard used during the First World War.  Earlier M1905 scabbards were modified by replacing the belt-hanger with a belt hook.  A green leather-bodied M1917 scabbard (designed for the M1917 bayonet) was approved as a substitute for the M1905 bayonet scabbard.
  A new scabbard, the M3, was developed early in the Second World War to replace these earlier scabbards.  The M3 scabbard had a body made of resin-impregnated cotton duck canvas with a metal throat, and was equipped with a wire hook hanger. The M1905 bayonet had a tendency to rattle inside the scabbard, and so ribs were molded into the scabbard tip to hold the blade. When production of the M1 bayonet began in 1943, a new scabbard, the M7 (otherwise identical in construction to the M3) was developed that used spring steel plates in the scabbard throat to hold the blade instead of the molded ribs. As a part of the bayonet-shortening program, M3 scabbards were also recalled for modification. The tabs which held the body to the throat were bent outward, the body was removed and shortened, and then reinserted into the throat and the tabs bent back. Since the tabs had a tendency to break off when being bent during the shortening process, later shortened scabbards had the tabs removed, short V-shaped cuts were made in the sides of the throat, and it was crimped onto the shortened body using a special tool.
caption: U.S Marine sheaths an M-1 bayonet
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