Loved pugil stick. A good excuse to beat the crap out of each other. I held my own but by that week of basic I was pretty (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) off and ready to whip everyone in sight, lol.

I do recall running the course jumping down into a ditch and sticking one of those rubber Ivans so hard I needed help pulling the bayonet out.

We really need to have a civilian version of pugil stick. Great way to blow off steam.

Make it a fundraiser at trapping conventions. $20 for 2 participants to battle for 2 minutes.

Story time.

When I was in Basic in 1996 (25 years old) We had it and that particular day I was at the hospital for an injury that was unrelated. All of a sudden in the door comes my Drill with a helper and a big bloody rag on his neck. Seems he moved to far into the path of the blade when he was yelling at someone. He learned a lesson that day. It was also pugil stick day and they told the Drills that they were not allowed to participate because the B and C Battery Drills had been having a contest to see how many Article 15's they could give each other's people. The chain was concerned they were going to have dead Drills or severely injured Drills.

Little Rock AFB, AR...Advanced Combat Security Police Training...1986

I never got the benefit of training , but I have a nice Buck knife bayonet. Fits my Mossberg 590 or my AR-15.

Cool

I had bayonet and pugle stick training at Parris Island, SC in 1962.

I am too old for knife or fist fighting.

We had the training in basic with the m14 in 65.