I will never need to purchase another knife again...ultimate survival tool inside!!!!

Holy nostalgia, BatMan!

When I was in high school in the mid-to-late 80's, I read Soldier of Fortune religiously. As I recall, that knife in a camo "finish" was on about 80% of the back covers. :D

I bought a USAF pilot's survival knife instead, after reading Bill Bagwell's column on hollow-handle knives. And that's where the knife addiction really took hold... :o
 
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Saw teeth AND a bottle opener, now that's innovation, but to add a BUBBLE COMPASS as well, capping a hollow handle... That's sheer marketing genius. Mac
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I can ship ya some when you go back to Brazil :D
 
:o I had two of 'em.

A black handled one given to me by my uncle when I was 12 or 13. Then a camo version that I found in my father-in-laws garage while helping him move. That was in my early 20's. I lost the first one. The second one ended up in pieces in the bottom of a tool box after I stripped the nut trying to tighten the blade/handle.

I had two chances to unfold the cable saw and failed on both attempts. They both snapped before I could try to use them.
 
I too had one of these that I got from a friend extremely used and abused. It was fun to throw if nothing else.

I watched the youtube video and tried to order "right now" but apparently they are no longer being offered. I figured that even if the knife wasn't all that I hoped for (come on, for $10 it's no Rambo knife!) I could still keep the sheath and the survival kit. Win-win!!! Now I'm just depressed: first I was too late on a good price for a Busse Battle Mistress and now this! I'm going back to watch the Home Shopping Network.
 
Guilty...

I bought my camo version after the first Rambo movie came out. Picked it up an an Army Surplus store...so I knew it was the real deal. Actually never used the knife, but I know that the sheath ended up breaking down pretty quickly just from fondling.
 
Yeah I had one when I was a kid, the grinning (laughing) adult faces are coming back to me!
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The tip! wow you guys were careful with your toys! mine snapped in half the first time I tried to use it
(but wait theirs more, you get 2 knives in 1!)

That would be fun to own as a collector/omg what was I thinking/didn't I have any friends series :D
 
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Holy Nostalgia Batman! I'm guilty too...I went overboard back in the mid eighties. I even strapped on my "survivor", stole my brother's dirt bike and took the back roads to my girl friends house. Rambo+Road Warrior:D Some skeletons just need to stay locked up in the closet:D Thanks for the stumbling trip down that cursed memory lane Doug:D I remember the compass broke and I finally bent the blade prying something...

ROCK6
 
I had a pair of those, one black, one camo. :o


I broke the tang on the black one batoning, but still use the camo one… :thumbup:

…it’s my knife of choice for scraping the bottom of my lawn mower. :rolleyes:





"If you're not living on the edge, …you're taking up too much space."

Big Mike

Forest & Stream
 
Any knife with leg ties is the shizznit in my book! I used to waer mine watching Megaforce. "Deeds, not words."
 
MY MY MY!!!!!!!!!!!!! The memories!!!! I had one in Black and One in Stainless, it was the one that started my knife journey. Come to think of it, not even Jerry Busse has been able to match the "420 Molecular" Stainless Steel. The most important part was the "survival kit" in the handle, Doug Ritter survival kit and Ultimate Survival Technologies were modeled after that masterpiece.
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Dude, you guys are lame.
There's no way that was cooler than my Rambo: First Blood Part Deux knife.

Hell, it was made from 440 ATOMIC steel -- WAAAAY better than that cheap molecular crap! :D

Funny thing is, I actually used my Rambo knife and it didn't break. . .
 
Sigh, what a KNIFE bro! Gotta get me one of dem! :) :)

I think the worth thing for me is when someone i know, like a co-work shows up with one all excited about the great knife they got, and then I try and tactfully explain that it sucks, kinda, sorta, maybe just a little... you can just see the wounded look in their face...... About three weeks ago a guy brought one in to show me what he was giving his kid for their camping trips..... sigh, he STILL isnt talking to me. :/
 
You know - if I was stuck out in the bush and life went all sucky for me - and I needed to hike it out. I would be SO friggen happy to have that POS. The compass is accurate enough to sooth my nerves and the blade would work for most tasks...

However, I would STILL spend day 1-3 lashing it to a pole and jumping down on the backs of animals that came by.

TF
 
One of my favorite pass-times is going swimming in murky, swamp like water and emerging with this knife clinched between my teeth.
 
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Amazing what is passed off out there as "survival" knives. A family member purchased this knife to give to me as a joke. I think he got from Harbor Freight for under $10.00.
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Yup, I picked one up at HF for $6 with a coupon. :D In an informal backyard comparison, the sawback was far behind the one on my Leatherman Blast. My <$10 Coghlan's folding saw came out way way ahead of both of them, and weighs less than either. :)
 
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