Knife in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

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Phillip Jones

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Does anyone know what brand knife is carried by the sniper Jackson in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN? It has a stag handle and what looks like an aluminum butt.

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Phillip,

Thanks, I was looking for an excuse to take yet another run through this movie...I'll be right back
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not2sharp,

So you are watching it to?

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If a man can keep alert and imaginative, an error is a possibility, a chance at something new; to him, wandering and wondering are a part of the same process. He is most mistaken, most in error, whenever he quits exploring.

William Least Heat Moon
 
It looks like a knife I have. I dont have much info on it, but the one I have is an EXACT twin of that knife. It was hand made in Germany. Need more info contact me. Thanks.
 
It looks more like Marbles to me. I used to comment that Speilberg spent most budget on anything else but knives. He couldn't afford a Randall.
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I knew a man that served over there during that time period and he brought one back very much like the one in the movie. Didn't Robert Klaas produce knives of that style? Most likely the knife is German made. I could be wrong. Good movie though.
 
The knife looks European to me. The stag used in the handle is much too large in grain for deer and more like elk. Most American knives of the period wouldn't have used this type of stag. It could be French or German (I have some Soligen knives with stag that looks just like this).

The spacers rule out Randall, and the simple small flat steel guard is not consistent with either Marbles or Randall. Maybe we should call it a theater knife and leave it at that?
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It looks like a Puma brand fixed blade--which is a derivative of a common European fixed blade skinning knife. I think Kompromed also makes a version of it.

--dan
 
I am confident the knife was made in Germany. It might be a Puma although I am not sure I would bet on it. I have so many knives made in Germany that looked very much like it but from more than one brand. I would not be shocked if it turned out to be a Linder. Does anyone know for sure?
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Tom Carey
 
It looked like it might be a Ruana to me. See the the photos on page 20 of the Winter, 1996 issue of Tactical Knives and the pictures on pages 24 and 25 of the Summer, 1995 issue of same magazine.
 
Willie,

I had a look at the knives on pg 20 of the Winter 96 Tactical Knives. They're not the same.
1) The stag has a different texture
2) The pommel is wider than the stag handle (the opposite is true of the movie prop)
3) The blade is unfullered
4) The guard is very elaborate on the Ruana (whereas the movie knife has a simple sheet metal guard)

Same comments would apply to the Summer 95 Pics.

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