Inexpensive fighting/combat knife?

Herr_Noobien said:
Most of you suggested bowie, while this knife is a spear point.
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It looks more like a drop point to me, but that is beside the point. There is no "one best combat knife".

I'm not saying you guys are wrong, perhaps Kizlyar got their designs wrong, but what makes a fighting/combat knife?
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The Kizlyar design you showed isn't really that different than the Ka-Bar USMC design. Both are long, fairly straight, single edged blades well suited for cutting or stabbing.

A "combat" knife like like those issued to the military is usually a multi-purpose utility blade, good for a number of different task, including fighting. The traditional Bowie blade of the Ka-Bar is a good choice for that, as it is a flexible blade shape. The drop point is another good, multi-purpose design.

On the other hand, blades like the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife or the Gerber Mk.II Survival Knife are designs with limited untility application, designed purely as fighting knives.
 
mdauben said:
On the other hand, blades like the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife or the Gerber Mk.II Survival Knife are designs with limited untility application, designed purely as fighting knives.
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Agree completely. :thumbup:
 
mdauben said:
On the other hand, blades like the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife or the Gerber Mk.II Survival Knife are designs with limited untility application, designed purely as fighting knives.
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They are more designed as pure killing knives, the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife was designed for the British Commandos for quiet killing when gunfire might not be a good thing so to speak. More assassination than fighting, quick, clean, silent kills usually from behind or asleep. Knives like the Gerber Mark II are off shoots from that style.

Much different that your typical Combat knives like the K-Bar that is a Bowie like knife or other Combat knives that have that classic heavy blade.
 
I never really entertained the thought, but based on looks and my imagination, I'd say this Boker:

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How bout karambits? These are true fighting knives used by martial artists. The karambit has no other application except fighting.
 
I'd stick with an original KABAR USMC fighting/utility knife (or one of the rubber handle versions).

Ontario's heat treat is iffy. Sometime's its good, sometimes it sucks. Never had a prob with KABARs HT.

Or, go with the knife designed as the replacement for the KABAR, the Becker BK7. I Like it better.

The nighthawk is a great choice too. In a combat knife, I like the blade to have somewhat of a utility shape blade as well as a sticking someone blade shape. The KABAR and Becker do that, the nighthawk seems to lean a littl more to the "sticking" type of blade. But it's still a great choice.

I think the Buck 119s handles are too slippery.
 
The karambit has no other application except fighting.
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I don't know where that bs started but people say it a lot. a karambit is an excelent utility knife on a small farm. If you need to pop outside before the whole harvest is ready and cut a few veggitables of a vine for dinner it's perfect, same for rope same for pruning branches. it'll gut and prepare fish and small animals reasonably well especially if you need to sever tendons, throats ect. the only thing it sucks at is cutting aginst a flat surface. i used one when i was visting my wife's parents (very) small farm last year it was great as a utility knife.
 
I'm new here so I'm just now seeing this post.

I'm in agreement with DRE about the Ontario Freedom Fighter 6 (FF6). It takes the tried and true basic design of the Camillus MkII/Ka-Bar design and enhances and strengthens it. The one area of complaint with the "Ka-Bar" type knives is that they tend to break at the hilt in extreme use like batoning. The design since it's inception has used a tang rod as opposed to a full tang as found in other fighting knife designs. Because of this, the knife has an inherent weakness where the tang rod joins the blade at the hilt. Obviously, the design has proven robust enough to have gained the reputation it enjoys (and rightly so), but there was room for improvement.

When the Marine Corps was field testing what would become the new OKC3S bayonet, they rejected the initial prototype that had a tang rod, opting instead for a full tang version. Apparently, they were aware of the shortcommings of the tang rod design and used the occasion to request a stronger design. The FF6 is the same blade design as the OKC3S without the necessary bayonet features. And, it does share the full tang design of the OKC3S bayonet. What you end up with is a knife with the same grip and feel of the tried and true Ka-Bar, made of the same 1095 steel, and it's stronger due to the full tang. To top it off, they're a great bang for the buck. I paid $45.00 for mine.
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Herr_Noobien said:
Before I start, I just want to say, that I don't buy knives with self defense in mind. With that said, I wanted to buy a fighting/combat knife just to get a feel for them (sounds odd, but I hope you know what I mean). I took a look at a Kizlyar Voron-3 (commonly used by the spetsnaz or so I am told), but I don't have $200AUD to spend on a knife right now. The only three requirements are that it should be a fixed blade, plain edged and not too expensive (below 100USD would be nice).

Thanks in advance.
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Feel it yet???:)
 
Cold Steel OSS. Over 8" of double-edged razor, light and superfast. Awesome fighter. $60 or so.
 
Hmmmm...why not get a F/U? I carried one for 8 years in the AF, through desert shiled/storm, etc.
 
kebely said:
What you end up with is a knife with the same grip and feel of the tried and true Ka-Bar, made of the same 1095 steel, and it's stronger due to the full tang. To top it off, they're a great bang for the buck. I paid $45.00 for mine.
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That looks like it's got a stick tang also, not a full tang.

rev_jch said:
Hmmmm...why not get a F/U? I carried one for 8 years in the AF, through desert shiled/storm, etc.
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What's a F/U?
 
kungfucowboy said:
why not a malco duct knife 6inch double edged knife made to cut through fiberglass ducting ;) less than $20
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That thing looks cool! I've never seen one of those before. You don't see things like that in American hardware stores. The general trend seems to be to only try and sell the lamest, most useless "knives" possible. It's like our culture is trying to erase the fact that good knives even exist.
 
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