Judging by the skull and K-pot shaped dings in my '43 Mosin's stock, [url=http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=10229]I don't think cracking it over somebody's skull would hurt it any more than what it's already seen[/url].

Although it seems the bayonet had to be replaced sometime during 1944 in the Ukraine.
-Presumably because it got bent-over and stuck inside something squishy.

/tangent discussion