Best Combat Knives

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OrlandoFL

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Any good/bad experiences or preferences with the following combat knives? I was told they represent the best in the world.

(1) Chris Reeve Green Beret (Yarborough)
(2) Extrema Ratio Fulcrum
(3) Eickhorn KM 2000
(4) Dustar Arad
(5) Kizlyar Phoenix
 
OrlandoFL said:
Any good/bad experiences or preferences with the following combat knives? I was told they represent the best in the world.

(1) Chris Reeve Green Beret (Yarborough)
(2) Extrema Ratio Fulcrum
(3) Eickhorn KM 2000
(4) Dustar Arad
(5) Kizlyar Phoenix
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Hi, told by who?
 
Best combat knives could easily be a list containing hundreds of knives. A "best combat knives" list that I would make, would not contain any of those knives. Having said that, I've heard good things about Eickhorn and Extrema Ratio.

Welcome to the the forums!
 
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The Eickhorn KM 2000 uses 440A steel. Hardly a tough knife, how can it be best?

What is "best" anyway
 
That's a very odd list. I wouldn't think any of those would be the 'best' combat knife.

Did the person who told you they were the 'best' just happen to have those very models in his sales inventory by chance?

Edit: Welcome to BladeForums. Please forgive us if any of our responses seem rude. They aren't meant to be, it's just that the question you asked has a LOT of factors involved in it. Personally, the best combat knife to me would be an M14 bayonet...attached to the M14.
 
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Welcome!

I have to ask the same questions already posed...

What do you mean by "best"?;
What do you mean by "combat knife"?; and
Who would tell you such a thing?
 
A friend and former USMC member recommended these knives.

I understand that the list is not inclusive.

The list was intended to identify a sample set of the most proven military combat knives currently being used today.
 
Whoever gave you that list was remiss in omitting the Dark Ops Interceptor E&E from it.


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OrlandoFL said:
A friend and former USMC member recommended these knives.

I understand that the list is not inclusive.

The list was intended to identify a sample set of the most proven military combat knives currently being used today.
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An incredibly small percentage of knife users in the military use knives of that style and cost.

Multi-tools and Gerbers from the PX make up the vast majority of "sharps" used by the US military.
 
The list doesn't contain the Smatchet, therefore it is obviously incorrect on all counts.

Here is a more accurate list:

1) Smatchet
2) Smatchet
3) Smatchet
4) Smatchet
5) Smatchet
 
marcinek said:
Whoever gave you that list was remiss in omitting the Dark Ops Interceptor E&E from it.


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Yeah that knife... because...

"The choil-notch doubles as both a bottle opener and peacemaker-its’ deployment and use is a great bar fight deterrent in exotic third world locales"
 
I cringe at the notion of using a knife for hand to hand combat. First, because I'm not trained and second, since I'm not trained, I can't fathom the notion of being cut up with "my combat knife" by someone who wants to kill me and managed to over take me. That really makes my skin crawl.

So I choose one of my CCW handguns for any combat I hope never happens and I choose a good EDC knife for cutting tasks.

And we all know the best combat knife is any knife in the hands of a trained expert in close quarters or hand-to-hand combat.
 
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marcinek said:
Whoever gave you that list was remiss in omitting the Dark Ops Interceptor E&E from it.


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I personally believe that it is about a time to have some international treaty forbidding that knife - or at least to prevent its proliferation! It is far too deadly for a conventional weapon. :D
 
Poez said:
I personally believe that it is about a time to have some international treaty forbidding that knife - or at least to prevent its proliferation! It is far too deadly for a conventional weapon. :D
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Absolutely! That sucker should be forbidden by the Geneva convention. Man was not meant to wield something so terrifying. :p
 
Reeek said:
I cringe at the notion of using a knife for hand to hand combat. First, because I'm not trained and second, since I'm not trained, I can't fathom the notion of being cut up with "my combat knife" by someone who wants to kill me and managed to over take me. That really makes my skin crawl.

So I choose one of my CCW handguns for any combat I hope never happens and I choose a good EDC knife for cutting tasks.

And we all know the best combat knife is any knife in the hands of a trained expert in close quarters or hand-to-hand combat.
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One minor disagreement: when I'm carrying a gun (I'm right handed) I have a left handed folder with me just for the purpose of weapon retention. Like you, I hope I'm never involved in combat, but if I am I really want not to be shot with my own gun.

Other than that minor point I totally agree: few things scare me more than the idea of a knife fight. A smart fellow once told me that the difference between the winner and loser in a knife fight is that the winner dies AFTER he makes it to the hospital.
 
The one piece of wisdom about knife fighting that has stuck with me was handed down from a crusty old ex- Devil's Brigade veteran. They are the three rules of knife fighting (which pretty much everyone must have heard by now):

1. You are going to get CUT.
2. It is going to HURT.
3. You are still going to F**KING MURDER the other guy because you are ONE DETERMINED S.O.B.
 
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