there's quite a few of them up in lewisburg up in nova scotia, not a popular design. this is one of those bayonets that i cringe when i go to reenactments and i see a ton of re-enactors with them because. it's such a cool thing. everybody wants to carry one, but they were kind of obsolete by about 1740. there weren't that many of them out there. french bayonets are fairly simple up until we get to the american revolutionary period and in starting in the late 1760s, the french you know what the biggest problem we're having with our bayonets is keeping them on the muskets. how do we do that? so if you look at the lower left, you'll see that the 1769, a 71 pattern, they came up with an idea that if we if have this rotating locking ring, we can actually keep the bayonet, the musket. and you know something, it worked. the only other thing they eventually did, if you look the lower right hand, you'll see the m17 77. by the time of the revolution, this is the standard bayonet being used by the french forces at the time. they just moved that locking ring into the middle of, t