Sidearms & Scatterguns A real combat knife

[kraigWY]

Not long after arriving in Vietnam I lost my pocket knife. I bought one of these at a PX and carried it until I left country and they took it because is said "US". (Cant take government property home from a war zone}.

I sharpened it, and kept a razer sharp edge. It was great for slicing C-Rat white bread and toasting it. I kept in on a piece of 550 cord openned. It was great for cutting your self out of a wait-a-minute vines. (big knives were always in the way). Almost as fast openning c-rat cans as a P-38. Great in assisting in field stripping a M-60.

It's also none sparking for EOD work.

I just about used it for everything. Sure I had my M7 bayonet for digging holes. But other then that I don't think you could find a better knife. Sucker wont rust either.

Every since I got home I've been wanting one but the prices have ski rocketed. I've seen them for as much as $150 on e-bay.

Finely found one in a thrift store, excellent shape for $18.

It's going with my collection of bayonets and my paratrooper switch blade.

 

[KM375]

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I found one of those with brown grips in a training area on fort Benning when I was a kid, still have it in a box somewhere.

 

[aziator]

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Glad you were able to find one, I have a couple out in a box somewhere, I should go dig them out.

 

[Miles2go]

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That's a cool little knife, I'd never seen one before.
Thanks for serving.

 

[HajjWhisperer]

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I found one of those in my grandfather's toolbox. He wasn't in Vietnam, but got it from somewhere. Those knives do sharpen up nice.

 

[RollingThunder51]

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one and done!

 

[EddieNFL]

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Good thing they marked the can opener blade. I hate to think of you doggies losing your P38 and starving because you couldn't open your C-rats.

 

[TheLlam]

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A good knife like that (or multi tool) is like having a third hand sometimes.

 

[cookietheswede]

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This one was my grandfathers. It was his "lucky" fishing knife.

He loved to fish and his knife goes with me on all my fishing excursions.

Marked 1959

 

[nock]

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I was given one in the Military from a school I went to and I still have it...

 

[USMC mustang]

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I was given one as a kid from a neighbor and used it for years as a Boy Scout, during hunting and camping trips, and when I first came into the Marine Corps. I ended up giving it to a PFC in my squad when I was a squad leader.

Another military surplus pocket knife that I used a lot in years past (and still have) is the green handled German Bundeswehr pocket knife that I bought in a surplus store when I was in junior high. I think I paid $6 or $7 for it. It's never been my primary knife but it always seems to get thrown into the pack for every field exercise, deployment, or backpacking or hunting trip.

 

[snajpr]

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I had a Camillus 1760 pocket knife. I see they can still be had on ebay for about $15 or new for $20.

http://www.knivesplus.com/CAMILLUS-KNIVES-MILITARY-BOOT.HTML