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Broken USMC...Again!

Ditto for the BK2…. I'm looking at the BK10 but I'm not planning on that kind of abuse.
 
i hope the maker here change the design of usmc that Widen the hiden tang & removing off Right Angle on the neck.
 
It's still considered a stick tang, but it is wider. The kabars with the straight cross guard all have the wider tangs. If you watch the knife test video series on it, he takes the handle off and shows what I stated before.
 
While I agree that this knife was designed to do everything from batoning to killing the enemy, I dont quite believe is was meant to do what you do with it for any extended period of time. Obviously, seeing that you've broke two of them. Get a Gransfors Kubben and baton that for you kindling. An estwing hatchet would work great as well and is cheaper than the Kabar knife you broke. A good hatchet should outlast that Kabar by far. The Kabar is meant to be a fighter/survival knife. While it can baton, it is meant to be used more sparingly for it...as you can see. Think how many trips to the woods it would last you if you only batoned your kindling for camp fires.

Also, wood selection is paramount when batoning with any knife. Find the "easiest" piece possible for kindling, whether your in the woods or at the fireplace. Im not saying that you dont, Im just reiterating it.
 
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i have broken two of theese myself, my friend allso just broke one. they cant handle any work heavyer that sharpening a pencil.
 
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if it was a pure fighting knife it would look totaly diffrent, it would have a dubble edge, it would be made off a stainless steel, it would have a segnificantly lower edge angle, the handel would not have been this round and it would have a bigger hand guard. not saying its a bad fighting knife but if it was pesigned as a pure fighter if would deffenately loook verry diffrent.

this knife was designed for millitary use but a solduer uses his knife in many diffrent ways and for many diffrent things, not just killing. there for it must be made in a way so that if a soldier is lost in the Woods he could depent on his knife, a pure fighting knife is not a good utility knife.
 
ml100 said:
Why do this discussions always end up with statements like this?
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Because people are ignorant. Also because the ones who make the statements can't always tell if they got the real deal or one of those $11 knock-offs.
 
I'm on an iPod ATM but I posted a link earlier in the thread, post 35. Made in sheffield to military specs! I'd wager some coin it's a tougher blade than the bk2!
 
Samon said:
I'm on an iPod ATM but I posted a link earlier in the thread, post 35. Made in sheffield to military specs! I'd wager some coin it's a tougher blade than the bk2!
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I have a few Sheffield knives and they are excellent quality. Tougher than a BK2 is questionable. That BK2 is a beast.
 
Yes, I've seen a USMC break like that. I think it's fair to say that few experienced or knowledgeable people will see this happen, even if they were in a survival scenario, because careful knife usage puts little stress on both the knife and the user and still gets the job done. If I was stuck in the wilderness out here where I live, I'd probably use a USMC to make wedges and use those to split wood, much like Mors does when he shows how he builds everything from tools to shelters using a Mora. I've learned a lot by watching him, since he exerts so little effort and yet accomplishes so much.

I also think it's fair to say that any of the lower/middle range "survival" knives out there (RAT, ESEE, Ranger, Becker, TOPS, etc etc) that use full tang construction can be expected to have a somewhat longer lifespan. But most of us will die with our tools fully intact, so this probably matters very little in the majority of cases.

I am not disagreeing with what the OP did, by the way. I push stuff to the breaking point all the time.
 
when I got my mod knife,i read on a british knife forum they were made from recycled steel from old battleships,thought that was cool.my handle has the biggest copper rivets/studs in the handle I ever seen in a knife.
 
bargs said:
when I got my mod knife,i read on a british knife forum they were made from recycled steel from old battleships,thought that was cool.my handle has the biggest copper rivets/studs in the handle I ever seen in a knife.
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I've not heard the steel origin story befor! Pretty cool though.

The rivets are huge, mine are covered up with the rest of the handle with heat shrink tubing. For a blade designed to tear open ammo boxes, oil drms and barbed wire I'd bank on it being tougher than the Becker. This is a mil spec knife, not a factory run toy! ;)
 
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