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Strength of an M9
Hello,
I own an Ontario M9 which came relatively unused, with chipped tip and was bent (very slightly) around where the tang meets the rod - I suspect, with tang not providing a full thread for the rod to mate with, that this is due to the teeth of the thread jarring and starting to mis-align.
But all merit to the M9 for trying atleast, because the other day I started to actually destroy the wire cutting surface on the bayonet with relative ease by cutting 2mm diameter solid High Tensile fencing wire, and servere burring appearing on the cutting surface afterwards, but only mild (if any) burring appearing on the sheath's cutting surface. Until the 2mm High Tensile, she cut soft (solid and two-strand barbed) and two strand high tensile barbed wire with ease and quite well.
The steel used in them, as I've just ground a more shallow edge onto the cutting surface which had the least hollow grind to bring it up to par with the one that had a better hollower grind, I know is pretty hard, comparable to something used in quality axes or wood chisels.
I believe it would require definitely time and effort to put a fine, and extremely sharp edge on an Ontario M9, which is probably not what a marine wants to hear being that I heard they like SHARP when a simple edge will gut most of your enemies.
I wouldn't buy a M9 again where that the tang is two piece construction, being that the tang which threads into the rod offers so little thread to do so with - Overkill is better than underkill, would you cut a flat bolt that has a tensile strength of exactly 1 ton and use it to hold 'a ton'?
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