Battle Mistress breakage?

Dennis in MA said:
I broke a FFBM. Sorry, no pix. What happened was I was in an undisclosed enemy location in my tank. Turns out, I'm racing out of there for my life. All of a sudden, I discover there's a cliff in front of me. I'm fudged. Nowhere to go.

So I climbed out of my tank, carefully lowered myself about 30' down the cliff and dug my FFBM into the side of the rock. One chop and it held fast. I then tied a loop in some braided steel cable on the back of my tank and drove that bad boy right over the edge of the cliff. As expected, the steel braid loop caught the FFBM and the tank held until the enemy defenders had left. They musta been somethin confused to see tracks and no more tank. LOL

Honestly, I could have stayed there for decades, but I had to get back to the rendezvous point. I figured with the right feathering of the treads, I could make it the rest of the way down the cliff, but how to remove the FFBM from the wall? (FWIW, I'm a really really good tank driver. Something none of you knew about me.)

Sadly, I didn't think to pull the pin from the clovis hitch. Instead, I turned the turret to vertical and shot at the braid to jar it loose. Hit the FFBM instead. Snapped that bad boy right in two. No. Not the FFBM - the shell. It just shredded it.

Just then, the rock wall gave way and I fell the remainder of the way down the cliff. My feathering technique worked. (See, I told you I'm that good.) Found the FFBM on the ravine floor. Snapped 1/4" off the tip. Boy am I pissed. I gotta send it to Jerry for replacement.
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How in the hell did anyone NOT comment on this. :confused: This is hilarious, Dennis. :thumbup::D

Last Visible Canary said:
i vaguely remember that... all I remember in detail was the shba, and that was fine. not sure what round was used on it though.
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The Wounded Badger was hit with a .40 round. Lucky gentleman. Aaron has it now.

I did see a CGFBM that had been hit with a round, though I'm not sure what caliber that was. I guess it could have been a 223 round, but definitely NOT from close range. It was actually for sale on the X a while back.

J
 
Dennis, that was so friggin funny!


OK, thanks, guys. Like I said, lately there's been a rash on several forums (not all knife-dedicated) of supposed "brute" knives breaking, always doing simple woods chores -- chopping, batoning -- and I don't mean chipped, I mean snapped in two.

I was just thinking the only BM I ever remember reading about breaking is one of the originals that Ron Hood intentionally, bent until it broke (at some truly obscene angle). But through all the stories of prying car doors, using as an entry tool, digging, chopping roots, chopping concrete, I never heard of one actually snapping. Good to know.

Since I'd LIKE a knife that can pry open a door, but probably will never do anything but gather firewood and do camp chores, I don't have to worry about mine. Just need to buy a few more so I'm not out of luck when I send one back to get the finish redone. :D
 
Maybe if you leaned your BM on a rock,,,,,,and had an Abrahms tank drive over it .....it MIGHT break,,,,,,,,,, might NOT. Normal abusive use doesn't break INFI blades,,,,,,,,,,,,Thats Why We Buy The Damn Things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:D:D:thumbup::thumbup::D:D

Kinda like the Snap-On tools warranty,,,, "IF" you break it , they replace it. With other manufacturers ,,, "When" you break it , they replace it !!!!!!!!!!
 
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I'mGatMan! said:
How in the hell did anyone NOT comment on this. :confused: This is hilarious, Dennis. :thumbup::D



The Wounded Badger was hit with a .40 round. Lucky gentleman. Aaron has it now.

I did see a CGFBM that had been hit with a round, though I'm not sure what caliber that was. I guess it could have been a 223 round, but definitely NOT from close range. It was actually for sale on the X a while back.

J
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+1 on that, I laughed out loud when I read your post Dennis. Good story teller.
 
I got some mud on mine once. I wiped it right off though.
 
I tried and I can't..... but my wife said she would break it if I used funds to buy another one! I think she actually could!
 
I remember reading a story of a guy who beat the crap out of his SHBM chopping up his concrete drive way. :rolleyes:

I believe it had some pretty serious edge damage, but didn't break. :thumbup:

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Oh, and Dennis... I'll back ya up. :thumbup:

I was at base camp watching the whole thing. :thumbup:
We all thought you were gonna flip that tank coming down that last 10 feet. :eek: :eek:











:D :D
 
Dennis in MA said:
I broke a FFBM. Sorry, no pix. What happened was I was in an undisclosed enemy location in my tank. Turns out, I'm racing out of there for my life. All of a sudden, I discover there's a cliff in front of me. I'm fudged. Nowhere to go.

So I climbed out of my tank, carefully lowered myself about 30' down the cliff and dug my FFBM into the side of the rock. One chop and it held fast. I then tied a loop in some braided steel cable on the back of my tank and drove that bad boy right over the edge of the cliff. As expected, the steel braid loop caught the FFBM and the tank held until the enemy defenders had left. They musta been somethin confused to see tracks and no more tank. LOL

Honestly, I could have stayed there for decades, but I had to get back to the rendezvous point. I figured with the right feathering of the treads, I could make it the rest of the way down the cliff, but how to remove the FFBM from the wall? (FWIW, I'm a really really good tank driver. Something none of you knew about me.)

Sadly, I didn't think to pull the pin from the clovis hitch. Instead, I turned the turret to vertical and shot at the braid to jar it loose. Hit the FFBM instead. Snapped that bad boy right in two. No. Not the FFBM - the shell. It just shredded it.

Just then, the rock wall gave way and I fell the remainder of the way down the cliff. My feathering technique worked. (See, I told you I'm that good.) Found the FFBM on the ravine floor. Snapped 1/4" off the tip. Boy am I pissed. I gotta send it to Jerry for replacement.
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Dennis has been watching War movies this week on AMC and playing Mortal Combat on his computer. LOL
Great Story!
 
I've used my NMFBM for some chopping in the woods and I honestly don't think I could ever break it through normal use.

I knew a guy years ago who broke two Cold Steel Trailmasters though. I don't know how he broke the second one but the first one broke while he was throwing it at a park bench. Not exactly normal use however.
 
I would imagine breaking a Battle Mistress in anything even remotely "regular" or "reasonable" use would be nigh impossible, unless that particular Mistress had a manufacturing defect of some kind.

I suspect that manufacturing defects are exactly the reason for most of the cases when big, tough blades break - it's happened to most everything from Fiskars axes to those Dog Fathers with a poor batch of steel. Sometimes that happens - that's what warranties are for.

By the way... great story, Dennis! :D

Cpl Punishment said:
OK, thanks, guys. Like I said, lately there's been a rash on several forums (not all knife-dedicated) of supposed "brute" knives breaking, always doing simple woods chores -- chopping, batoning -- and I don't mean chipped, I mean snapped in two.
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Which knives were these? Just curious.
 
88Azazel said:
I knew a guy years ago who broke two Cold Steel Trailmasters though. I don't know how he broke the second one but the first one broke while he was throwing it at a park bench. Not exactly normal use however.
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Does he have something against little old ladies??? :eek:
 
Here's a thought, a bit out of left field but still. Imagine if Iron Man upgraded to infi, mind you it might makes his adventures pretty boring:

'Bad guy shows up with new big weapon, Iron Man shows up to stop him, Iron Man get shots, dust settles not a scratch on him, Iron Man get the bad guy.'

As for breaking a BM I don't want to be around when that happens, time might stop or space implode.
 
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