Backup side gun

The auxiliary side rifle or incorrectly also replacement side rifle is the military name for a bayonet . Since there was a shortage of ordonance weapons in the First World War , the auxiliary side rifles were used. They were obtained for the service as follows:

• 1.) By new production.
• 2.) Conversion of bayonet and sidelight blades from weapons that were confiscated or captured at the beginning of the war (only those that fit the Gewehr 98 .
• 3.) Manufacture of vessels that could be replanted, including the use of old or captured bayonet and side gun blades.

These bayonets or side guns could be used for the following weapons:

• 1.) Rifle 71
• 2.) Hunter rifle 71
• 3.) Rifle 71/84
• 4.) Rifle 88
• 5.) Gun 98

See also

• Emergency bayonet

literature

• Gerhard Seifert: Technical terms of edged weapons. German ABC of the European naked defensive weapons. (Cut, thrust, hit and hand thrown weapons). Verlag Seifert, Haig 1981.

Web links

• Rolf Selzer, The German Auxiliary Rifles (PDF; 2.0 MB)