I just want to say I really like your name as M1Garandfather having carried one too many times. I learned to love and hate it. Shot great but was heavy to a kid like me at the time. 8 and kachin......g.

I have sen a lot of M7's lately at gun shows but many wewre in terrible shape.So, where can I find a reasonable one in decent shape?

Basically something like we built at M9Bayonet.com. Bill Porter (Porterkids here on the the forums) along with a few other contributors helped me compile the information on the M9 bayonet.

All I really need to get started is some decent photos and any history that you or anybody else may know about the M7. A generic writeup would be great too...

You are welcome to use the forums here to start the pages and to collect and organize photos and I will be glad to help with getting the information into a webpage format. When finished, I will also need credits information so that we can give credits to those that help with the project as I really do not know much of anything about the M7 bayonet!

M7 Bayonet with Yellow Diamond Mark on Handle
 

I just bought an M7 BOC Bayonet with an US.M8A(either an I or a 1) sheath. The handle has a yellow diamond on it. I've been trying to find out some information regarding this and the mark. Someone on another board said the diamond indicated it was a SF issued bayonet.....I'm not so sure.

Anybody know anything about this?

Thanks.

9" M7
 

Was Eickhorn the only maker of the 9"double edged bayonet? Mine is marked M7 US. It has a one piece grip and a threaded pommel.
Thanks for any info

To the best of my knowledge, Eickhorn was the only manufacturer of the long double-edged M7 bayonets.

How to date an M7 bayonet?
 

Hi,

I am looking to buy the best condition M7 I can find, from the VIETNAM era. There are a lot of them on eBay from different manufacturers, and I don't know how to identify their ages.
Is there a way to know this? Like... certain companies only manufactured them between certain years?
And how about ones that come with the M10 scabbard/sheath, were those used during the Vietnam War? Which year was that introduced?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...

Scott