Any one have a KA-BAR?

I don't need anymore convincing.

http://www.knifetests.com/page2.html

K-BAR destruction test part 2 10 minutes/seconds film clip.

After watching that clip I'm whooped! I'm getting some of those. You can tear the living crap out of them!

Test Knife

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Please forgive me. Ka-Bar is worthy. So is the "Express" line of Remington Shotguns. I will never say another bad thing about a Ka-Bar for as a long as I live.

I don't have all night to watch all the clips all I need was that one 10 minute posted above to convince me.:D
 
Check out the bushman test if you want to really be floored, best 10 bucks you will ever spend.;)
My second, the bowie version, will hopefully be in the mail tommorow.
 
Didn't you ever see a kung fu movie? Lots of kewl swords cutting through all manner of stuff. The chinese make good blades!:D
 
Yeah, like heads and necks and bricks, OH MY!!!

That, and if it breaks, you can always use it as a soap box to preach anti-commie messages!
 
Keep in mind that the original KaBar 'fighting knife' was the answer - the winner - to a WWII bid request. It was adopted because it could be produced rapidly and inexpensively for the war effort. The original plans are dated 12/42. It never was a 'keeper', a la a current Bark River, or similar, products. As for the tang strength, my late Dad's old WWII So. Pacific companion broke at the pommel when I dropped it on my concrete basement floor three decades back. I bought a new monel pommel and some leather washers, fitted same on the newly trimmed tang (Dremel & cut-off wheels.), secured with epoxy.

I couldn't find a USN version - on sale. I bought both a standard USMC (#1217 - $40) and a Pearl Harbor 60th year commemorative ($30!) from SMKW. Yep, still made to the same dimensions (I couldn't tell OAL by my original... I unintentionally shortened it!). They were never 'expensive' knives - they weren't meant to be passed down thru generations - as the ultimate hunter/survival example. They were meant for fighting 'utility' duties.

I also have a <$30 now KaBar #1232 Hunter - a nice little Japaneese made SS typical leather-washer handled hunting knife (A US-made Buck 102 is smaller - 119 is larger.). Seems odd having it next to the WWII variant. Yep, they have to stay alive these days... overseas production of consumer items is a current trade requirement, it seems, for any company wishing to remain viable. Still, I 'try' to buy US-made goods... in knives, fortunately, we still have quite a choice in BRKT, Bear MGC, BM, Buck, KaBar (original), Kershaw, Marble's, Queen, & Spyderco. YMMV.

Stainz
 
One thing I won't buy when I get my "tax rebate":rolleyes: is anything manufactured in Canada. :) Except maybe some "Canada Dry" ginger ale.:thumbup:
 
Get yourself a Grohmann, the boat knife is a good choice.
Not sure what else we make here, maple syrup?
 
Excluding diesel (canadian whiskey), what else is made in canada besides waffles, weed, and syrup?
 
Very fine snow shoes, I finally found a pair to hold up my 260 pound ass, so Im happy. :D
 
95% of your electricity is from Canada, as is Lumber for your houses, and gasoline/crude/diesel/heavy oils that we export to ya.

:)
 
Nope, at least, not at the current time. I won one in a contest, but havn't received it yet.

I did pick up one of the Case XX Marine knives many years ago and it was a dandy, so I'm sure that the Kabar version will be equally as good.
 
I like ya'lls Snow Bird Flying Team. 95% of our electricity? Oil? You trying to start a war or something?

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I have a well-used "sterile" KA-BAR/USN MkII at home. I'll take some pics of it sometime and post them.

Ron
 
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