Can Anyone Answer These Real Knife Questions?

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Edge

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In the Rambo movies, 1,2,3 Stallone uses the knife to do many things, in Rambo 2&3 he cuts barbed wire, can this be done, can a knife actually cut through this type of wire without using a sheath aided device, also in #3 he throws that massive knife at some bad guy and it sticks into a piece of wood, would it be possible to be able to throw such a knife and stick 9 out of 10 times without massive luck required?

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Hunting? Don't be a wise guy, what do you hunt with a knife?

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Don't we just love the movies?

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you mean... that cant be done in real life....
THANX A LOT!!!! you ruined all my fantasies.... *g*

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The best way to "cut" barbed wire with a knife is to use the (unsharpened) spine to fold the wire over abruptly, forming a point where you can bend it back and forth and induce metal fatigue.

Other than minor scratches, this won't hurt the knife. It'll work OK, if you're patient
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I've leave the thrower question to one more competent. Except...the Rambo knives were grip-heavy, the worst type to try and throw. It IS possible to build a "thrower Bowie" but you need to keep the grip weight way down. Harald Moeller's "Canadian Outdoorsman" is possibly the best-executed Bowie thrower ever.

Jim
 
Cutting wire is what the Leatherman Wave is for.
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An oxy-acetylene torch cuts barbed wire really neatly. I hear that the next generation of multi-tools will all include one of these, along with hot and cold running water, and of course a satellite dish.

In reply to Edge's rhetorical question:
Hunting? Don't be a wise guy, what do you hunt with a knife?
Take a look at any of Samuel White Baker's books on hunting; his weapon of choice for boar and stag was a knife (there are lengthy excerpts in my article about London Hunting Knives in KNIVES 98). And I know guys today who still hunt wild boar with dogs and a big knife, the same way that Baker did. I don't know anybody who still hunts Sambar elk this way, though...

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The best way to cut barbed wire with a knife is to have the AK-47 bayonet and "holster" - thus being able to cut through it like it wasn't there....

Apart from that - Jim's method is the best - but it takes a long time - something you usually don't have under fire..

With all my humbleness - I’ll second everything Mr. Levine said about knife hunting - I'll just add that ax and knife throwing were (and probably are still being used) for hunting - mainly in very primitive tribes. Some of the Indians in south America use this method - but they can also shoot down a bird the size of a dollar bill down from a tree 60 yards high with a blow gun, so go figure...

Another way to hunt with a knife requires a poll to which the knife is fixed - thus allowing to use it as a spear and hunt fish along shallow places in the river, small game etc.

Takes practice but CAN be done.

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Oh, Knife hunting?
I sometimes go hunt knives... They are very wise, sometimes ambush me... suddenly I see a knife coming over to me on all its eight feet running. I shot and felt it was hurt, ran away... I chased, shot again, dressed, baked, ate it...

Sorry I couldn't help.

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Hunting knives is like chasing girls:
you run after them 'til they catch you....
That makes hunting quite expensive.
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Edge :

can a knife actually cut through this type of wire without using a sheath aided device
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Yes, I have even seen a cheapo 440A sword do this.

he throws that massive knife at some bad guy and it sticks into a piece of wood, would it be possible to be able to throw such a knife and stick 9 out of 10 times
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Yes, it just takes practice.

-Cliff
 
Well I've spent a lot of time building fences, and barb wire is tough stuff. It is hardened enough that you could fold it over and over on the spine of a knife till it breaks. But properly hung barb wire is under alot of tension which would make it a little difficult to bend it far enough. Not to mention it has a great memory to it and flys back into a coil as soon as its cut so I wouldn't want to be holding the ends in my bare hands when it finally gives. I mean the stuff really flips hard and if it didn't rip up your hands you'd be lucky not to get smacked in the face with it. But hey this is the movies were talking about.
As for the throwing, I'll go along with everyone else in saying that it depends on the balance of the knife. It would be pretty cool to have a big knife thats usuable for normal cutting and heavy work, and still balanced that well. But if you look at most knives that are designed for throwing, their geometry usually isn't that good for anything else. But practice will make anything easier to do, so I guess you could throw a rambo knife if you wanted too.

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Edge,
I once saw Forrest shake John F. Kennedy's hand in a movie.

All of those tasks are really not that difficult in a well made quailty knife.
The LILE Rambo's weakest link is how the Handles are epoxyied onto the hilt and tang.
For me not really very reassuring for a Survival Knife.
In extreme cold would definetly be problamatic to say the least.

Look at Crain knives, Brends or others for a better choice.
IMHO

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Matt :

As for the throwing, I'll go along with everyone else in saying that it depends on the balance of the knife. It would be pretty cool to have a big knife thats usuable for normal cutting and heavy work, and still balanced that well.
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A knife does not have to be balanced in any particular place for you to be able to throw it in a consistent manner which is all that is required to get it to hit the target and stick.

Your comments about barbed wire are interesting, I have never seen it under tension like that. However all the wire work I have seen was done by the land owners themselves, it is put on loose.

-Cliff
 
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