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Originally Posted by dcarson
A boar spear might be useful also. Keeping the monster beyond reach until it finishes dying from the cold iron or silver blade on the tip is good. There are people in Texas that actually hunt wild boar with them so it is explainable why you have one.
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Well, if you have one, it might be useful, but I doubt many people would be willing to lug around a boar spear on missions.
On the other hand, considering that the French Foreign Legion still does (and did) a lot of bayonet drills and that several of the older men involved might have used bayonets in combat*, I'd expect that Spear was among the Optional Skills taught and that some men might carry a bayonet for their longarm. Especially those who used archaic rifles for esoteric and occult reasons.
*'Jan Meijer' (born Hans Mayer) was a Prussian police officer who fought as a Fallschirmjäger in WWII and might or might not have used a bayonet in combat. ''Ziggy' Wagner' (born Wilhelm Kahle), who fought as a Panzergrenadier with the Waffen-SS Panzer Division Das Reich through WWII, definitely did. Either man also might have used bayonets in Indochina with the French Foreign Legion. CSM 'Ned' Bannerman might also have used bayonets in his WWII wartime service with the British Commandos, SSRF and SAS. As for Gunnery Sergeant John McBride of the USMC, he definitely used a bayonet in the Pacific in WWII, as well as in Chosin, Korea.