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Chris Keller

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I recently got one of these from Smokey Mountain Knife Works for about $60.00 US. As you know SMKW sells a lot of nonsense but occasionally good deals come up.

I am told the Brits adopted it about the time of the Falklands War.

This is a thick, black-finished knife with very heavy fiber slabs (you can get wood ones) secured by copper rivets. The blade tang is beefy and very likely as strong as that of a Becker Campanion. The knife was dull but a decent edge was easy to put on the saber ground blade, that has "ADAMS" stamped on it on the left side.

The knife is not adapted for fighting, unless you want to split a fellow's head with it, but seems to be the ticket for cutting wood and brush and digging a foxhole. The leather sheathe is OK.

Any of you guys out there do service in the British Army recently? What do you think of this knife?
 
I was a British infantry soldier from 1990-1994. The MOD knife is a great bit of kit, but very heavy. I could never justify carrying such a heavy knife all those miles, in addition to all the other gear we carried.
A Victorinox Rucksack saw me through my service in the army. I lost one and replaced it with another.
The only other knife I carried was a Gerber Mark I, for self defence when out in plain clothes in Northern Ireland.
 
knives are one of those things...;)

Americans love our guns and knives... the bigger the better.

What I was told by a good friend, who got it from a "red devil" attached to the 101, that such a knife would be used for tasks the rest of us would use a Machete or an Axe for.
 
my comment is, people find different knives are better for different preferences, and also im racking up my post numbers
 
I just bought one of those, and I've sheathed a few. What a knife. You could air drop those like submunitions and wreck whole cities, but it is nearly indestructible. Too bad the silly Enfield SA 80 wasn't made as well. I think that knife went well with the SLR, a much better rifle. Like Mr. Andrews, I carried a Swisschamp through the Marine Corps, till I finally got a Ka Bar to go to Iraq. Never really used it though, but I was always using the SAK.
 
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