Desert Jack info needed. er-wanted.

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The Desert Jack was a military over run. It is a really nice knife, and surely a great utility knife. However, it seems very heavy to be considered a combat knife. I know little about the reasons for design consideration, and less about military knives. This question could pretty much be for any Busse Kin blade. What is the specific use the desert Jack was designed for? Which features indicate what the Desert Jacks porpose is, and what is its main military purpose?
 
A "combat knife" is normally used for everything but fighting. Prying, cutting stuff, more prying, tent stake, screw driver, lots more silly harsh prying. You get the picture.

A fighter is a light, thin, very sharp tool for cutting soft materials, not much use for anything else might ruin the fragile edge.
 
Thank you, Leatherman, so as I now understand it, the Desert Jack is not designed for fighting, it is basically a do everything else tool, and the semantics were just confusing me.
 
Your very welcome. :) And yes, you have it right, pure utility.

The RMD and new Rodent 4 are good examples of a modern version of the Desert Jack, and a lot easier to get a hold of. The RMD being the closest cousin.
 
“What is the specific use the desert Jack was designed for?”

It was specifically designed to drive me completely freakin insane until I own one!
 
jdigi101 said:
“What is the specific use the desert Jack was designed for?”

It was specifically designed to drive me completely freakin insane until I own one!
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lmao! I sooo understand that!

I think at one point I was trying to figure out what units got them, to see if I could zero in some bases to check out their area craigs lists!! How wacked is that??!! :eek:
 
rpn said:
lmao! I sooo understand that!

I think at one point I was trying to figure out what units got them, to see if I could zero in some bases to check out their area craigs lists!! How wacked is that??!! :eek:
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It’s not a hobby. It’s a disease.
 
I have one, and do use it mostly for foraging tasks, even digging roots. I just want to learn more about the thinking that goes into designing a knife, and knowing that, put the knives to their intended use so they can be appreciated more. I have the Satin Battle Rat, bought specifically to open cocoanuts. The "Through the hands of a Master" D2 skinner was never used by me, but three hunters used it on deer and were really impressed with it. I thought the Camp Tramp was too unwieldly until it was used for roughing out branches and small logs for camp bushcraft chores.
 
Definitely one of the best to ever crawl out of the Swamp. Mine doesn't leave my pack.

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