Soldato
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A few of the points on some Patterns are sharpish, but with the blades blunt I doubt it would be hard to get past the point of an unskilled wielder. There's a good reason why Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knives are very small and bayonets were cut-down for proper trench fighting.
I recall seeing that pre ww1 the prevailing idea for bayonet use was basically as a glaive for fencing with, from the same school of thought of the 400yrd zero, the magazing cutoff and the idea that the machine gun was a dishonourable weapon.
Until it actually happened, and people reverted to a mace and a bag of grenades as a truly effective trench combo when they realised its impossible to fence in a trench and a 400yrd zero does damn all when average combat distance is 50m