Can anyone explain the image on the Becker shirt?

Arkanian

Arkanian

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I was randomly looking around KA-BAR and Tomar's websites and I saw the shirts which I never really paid attention to, but it struck me that I have no idea what the shirt is trying to portray as an image. I understand the whole tough and aggressive nature etc... but it just doesn't really click I guess.
 
Are you talking about this one ? Thats a RAT. Shirts were made before they ESEE changed to ESEE
 

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That's Ka-Bar / Becker, not RAT / ESEE. It's a picture of a ravenous animal.
Someone might have sketched a picture of Ethan when dinner was delayed!

(That's a joke. Ethan is an expert at seeing to it that dinner is on time! :D )
 
as far as the use of a bear in the t-shirt, maybe it has something to do with this story:

"Soon after its introduction, the KA-BAR trademark became widely known and respected. There have been many versions of how the KA-BAR name was adopted, but all evidence points to a letter received from a fur trapper. This particular fur trapper's testimonial turned out to be one of the most significant ever received by the Company. He wrote, in very rough English, that his gun had jammed and that he had therefore relied on his knife to kill a wounded bear that was attacking him. In thanking the company for their quality product, the trapper described using his knife to "kill a bar." The way his writing was scrawled across the paper it looked like "ka bar." The company adapted his writing and adopted it as their trademark, KA-BAR."

http://www.tomarskabars.com/Story_Kabar.html


from wikipedia:

"KA-BAR is claimed to have received its name after the company received a testimonial written by a trapper, who used the knife to kill a wounded bear that attacked him after his rifle jammed. According to this story, all that was legible was "k a bar" - fragments of the phrase "kill a bear". Former Marine and author, Earl Gorman, refutes the claim and dismisses it as "macho marketing from the 1970s" and offers up an alternate explanation that the name is an abbreviation of: "Knife - Attachment, Browning Automatic Rifle". The company adopted the name from the "bear story" as their trademark."
 
Esav Benyamin said:
That's Ka-Bar / Becker, not RAT / ESEE. It's a picture of a ravenous animal.
Someone might have sketched a picture of Ethan when dinner was delayed!

(That's a joke. Ethan is an expert at seeing to it that dinner is on time! :D )
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LOL I know but couldn't resist
 
Why stop now ...

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free,
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree,
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only 3.
Ethan, Ethan Becker, King of the wild frontier!

... ha ha ha ha ha !
 
As a Wisconsinite, it is my opinion that the animal in question is a badger. What do I win?
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Why stop now ...

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,
Greenest state in the land of the free,
Raised in the woods so he knew every tree,
Kilt him a b'ar when he was only 3.
Ethan, Ethan Becker, King of the wild frontier!

... ha ha ha ha ha !
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Dayum, I was taught that in grammar school. Of course it was the Davy Crockett version.:D Do you think anybody else is old enough to recognize that?:eek:
 
:jerkit: LOL, MAN !!! You guys make me feel OLD & I am NOT old---yet. I remember it just fine. LOL :D Oh, yeah, that looks like a badger to me as well.
 
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