Marcinko's "Field Fighter"?

[James Healy]

Well, i read Red Cell again last night, great book imo. It mentioned a blade called the "Field Fighter", and seemed to indicate that it was some kind of custom. Anyone know more about it?

James

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[Mississippi Rifleman]

Yea, it was a custom knife by Robert Spear. He has a book on knife fighting and he uses it in there. A lot of pictures of it there. Looks like a common bowie mostly. I real good field knife that can be used for anything.

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[muzzleup]

Later on in his books he spacifically names using the Emerson CGC6 and the book stated that he paid over $600 for it, so I wrote him and told him he got ripped off because you can buy an Emerson CGC6 for about $400. His reply was that "yeah,but the military always spends more on everything" (or something to that affect.)

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Ron,
Now Thets-A-Noif Shop
Bremerton, Washington

 

[Kingknives]

That book was written before Emerson collaborated with Benchmade to produce the CQ-7, and long before Emerson had his own company. So $600 for a true Emerson custom might not be to bad. How many of the customs coming out of his shop now are even "touched" by him?
If I remember correctly he lost that knife too! Damn!

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[Jim Six]

Way back at the dawn of time, when Spear intro’d the Field Fighter, I thought it was a pretty funky looking knife. Wanted one, but thought $159 or whatever it cost at that time was too much to pay for a knife.

Imagine that!

As I said, way back at the dawn of time. Oh, how I have evolved now!



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