Commercials

[Old-Smithy]

There are a lot of them out there, from the Lan-Cay ones to the chinese and taiwanese copies here are two of my latest from Smith and Wesson(?)

A black and a "white" blade etched with two coloured "Lazer" camoflage to mimic the new digital pattern uniforms i suppose. I have also recently got a comemrcial copy of the OKC-3S marine bayonet

[Blackmantis]

Very interesting. Those S&W M9's caught my eye on eBay not long ago. I was tempted to get one but I have heard that S&W simply bought out a bunch of cheap Taiwan knockoffs and simply printed "Smith and Wesson" on them.

Still, I'm eager to get my hands on one just to see what they're like.

[pwcosol]

I think if you consider all the military production M9 variants as compared to those offered commercially by Phrobis, LanCay, Ontario, and Asian knock-offs, there are far more non-military contract variants out there, even though production of many commercial M9s was/is relatively limited. It is also interesting some of these commercial pattern bayonets manage to find their way into service use by our men in the field. There seems to be more latitude in allowing troops the use personal weapons in lieu of their issue ones. I have personally tried to concentrate my interest in military contract variants. However, there were several interesting commercial pattern M9s; primarily those made by Phrobis, Buck, and some LanCay, which I found hard to resist acquiring, and so I did.