A hypothetical question

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I'm not a Veteran, but I watch everything that comes on the Military Channel and others about WW2. One of my Mom's brothers was killed in action on D-Day and my Dad was captured and spent 2 years as a German POW during the invasion of Sicily, so I'm pretty interested in it.

If you were going into combat in a similar situation, what Buck knife would you want to carry with you? Would it be one of the newer "tacticals" or one of the older style hunters?
 
Either a 119 or 120!! That's assuming I was actually going into a combat situation, but, having said that, I carried a 110 during my one-year tour in the Nam, but was never in a combat situation.
 
As many different ones as I could just before they take me under when crossing streams. If it has to be just one, what am I saying,,,, can't be just one...:grumpy:

ok, ok... a 110 with a lansky clamp :cool:
 
Definetely one of the older style hunters. I'm not real big on "tactical" style knives
 
Well, your bayonet could open your K-Rations if you had to, so I would want a 110.
 
Assuming I had an issued Kabar or bayonet, I'd probably just take a 301 stockman. My grandfather came back from the war with two Purple Hearts and one arm (Battle of the Bulge). He once told me he carried an issue sheath knife and a two-blade pocketknife. Based on his description, sounded like a Barlow type.

Now, if it were up to me to furnish a sheath knife, I'd go with a 105 Pathfinder without hesitation.
 
I hould have to go with the 119 with the old 440C steel paired with a 301 or some other small pocket knife such as the 501.

The 120 would be a touch too long to carry around on a few miles hikes/partol, but would be more suited for combat and chopping situations.

John
 
MN,

Bet your grandfather carried a TL-29, lots did, looks like a Barlow but has a screwdriver blade as secondary.

Having trained in non-war gunfighting these questions always give me a chuckle. i.e. Which knife would I carry to a gun fight. First I would only carry one as light as possible, second I would have one you could open with one hand as the other might be shot to pieces. I realize the question was asked in WW2 situations, where 'human wave' advance occurred. Maybe something large then. But nowdays:

The rule is: run out of ammo and you best be running away behind cover. Unless someone jumps out of a tree on me, I am not knife fighting. The second consideration is distance is your friend. So the lighter you are weighted down the faster you can run.

So first I would want bayonet and then the longest sharp pointy thing around.

Which Buck knife would I carry, I would carry two, a 309 and small stone, hidden somewhere against loss for picking out splinters and cutting off extra pieces of wound skin and a 110 with a flipper stud mounted for one handed use. Then I might leave my bayonet behind for the weight of a couple of clips of ammo. A good likeweight hawk might be usefull for chopping.

300Bucks
 
right size....low weight....S30V steel.....

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I think a older 119 would be great. :thumbup: I was in the Navy from 69 to 73 and saw alot of Buck knives. I know of one who carried a 103.
 
300Bucks said:
MN,

Bet your grandfather carried a TL-29, lots did, looks like a Barlow but has a screwdriver blade as secondary.

Having trained in non-war gunfighting these questions always give me a chuckle. i.e. Which knife would I carry to a gun fight.
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Nope, he was very specific that it was a small knife with two blades (he'd brought it from civilian life). I remember because the conversation started when I showed him one that I had.

On bringing a knife to a gun fight, I totally agree. I remember reading a stat about the Civil War that blew me away. A very very small percentage of the deaths were from edged weapons (swords, mainly, I would assume) - something like 4 percent. The Civil War! Think firearms have improved a bit since then? Sure, a fixed blade serves a purpose in war still - but it's important to keep this in perspective. If you're pulling your knife to fight, it means at least two firearms have malfunctioned: Yours and your enemy's. ;)
 
As far as a combat knife goes, I feel it's better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it. JMO
 
I wouldn't (and didn't) want any additional knife...I had an M7 bayonet which worked (and still does) just fine...but I would make sure I had an E-tool...the one with both shovel and pick heads...
 
I'd take the one on the bottom. Forgot the model/number. But it's a great knife. Got here in my mitts...no marking other than "BUCK" "U.S.A.". If someone wouldn't mind refreshing my memory (JB4570?) that would be appreciated.

IF I didn't have that, it'd be a 105 or 119...maybe my 651 PigSticker if I was "chairborne" behind a desk with polished boots and starched BDUs just to impress the nurses ;)

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I could see if you had a bayonet you wouldn't need a big knife. That said I was a medic with the 3rd Marine Divison and at the time alot of them had Kabars ;)
 
Look Chicken I really don't give a sh$t what you doudt. And they did carry Kabars and Camillus . Most picked up on ship stores or the PX. And I also know my way around Camp Lejune I went to field med school there.
 
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