Most popular khukuri in Nepal?

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According to the HI website, the 3 most popular Khukuris, in order, are the 15" Ang Khola, the BAS, and the 16.5" WWII.

What is most popular khukuri style in Nepal amongst those who carry them constantly and use them on a day to day basis?

Also, it's curious that the BAS is listed as the 2nd best seller HI has, but it's not mentioned on this forum that much.
 
At 5'4" Kami Sherpa and I see eye to eye. From what I'm told he's average height in that region. From what Uncle Bill has said, the average village khuk around where he's been has been 14/15 inches. But you can't average it that way. It depends on the region and the shape and weight on the usual khuks there.

Over here, the 15" Ang Khola astounds the average newbie, and is made thicker than usual so it won't break. It gets raves.

I think the 15" BAS sells well enough to take second place because it's the size the ghorkas today carry. If you order it you can say this is THE ghorka knife.

And the 16.5" WWII seems to be magic - just right.

Call the BAS the 308 ( 7.62x51 NATO ), call the AK the 30-06, and call the WWII the 7mm Mag. Will one of them do anything you really can't do with the others?

My favorites end up in the 16 to 18" range. I'd guess the BAS doesn't get talked about because like the 308, it doesn't have the flat shooting of the 7mm Mag, or the 100 feet per second additional of the 30-06, nor can it shoot the 220 grain heavy stuff.
 
I think the main reason it doesn't get much press is cos everyone has one !!

:)
 
I grab the BAS's occassionally from the UBBB's so I can give them away without feeling too anguished.

They ( BAS's ) just don't turn me on. It's like kissing your sister. This is just me now, and I don't want to put anyone who does like the BAS down. The excitement just isn't there for me with a BAS. Sorry, and I don't dislike them, I don't hate them, I just feel "blah" about them.
 
Originally posted by Rusty ..... The excitement just isn't there for me with a BAS. .....and I don't dislike them, I don't hate them, I just feel "blah" about them.
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Same here.
My first was a BAS.
Liked it well enough to try a couple more;
One smaller, one larger.
With those others in hand I just wasn't interested in the BAS.
It's a good blade.
It just doesn't fit me at all if I have other khuks to choose from.

If I had to choose -just- One blade. and Only one blade, to carry and
use outdoors for hiking, camping, fishing, anything and everything
for an extended period.
It Might be the BAS I choose.
Although my slightly smaller but choppier Pug villager
would probably get the nod.

If I knew I had a lot of chopping to do,
then I'd go for something larger than the BAS.
 
Thanks Dean. The BAS is just at that inbetween point for me. They are good for what it is that they are. Which is?
I dunno!
 
Maybe British Army Service?

The one I refurbished didn't speak to me, compared to the 15 AK or the 12inchers. Dunno.It was beautifully made, perfectly competent.


Different Strokes.
 
Rusty, I noticed that you changed your location under your avatar. Did you move from "flyway of the loons"? (I loved that for an address)
 
Ben, still at the same place over 20 years now. Look about 70 miles northeast of the east gate of Yosemite at the south end of Walker Lake. Yes, they still have a loon festival, and yes, Schurz at the north end of the lake is where the ghost dance movement that ended at Wounded Knee started, and halfway between Yosemite and Hawthorne as the crow flies are the ghost towns or Aurora and Bodie, one on the Nevada side, the other on the California side. Candelaria, Silver Peak, Rawhide, Tonopah, Goldfield, are all scattered near and far.

It was once alleged that on the death of the founder of another forum, at about the same time he was being planted, 6 shots rang out on the outskirts of Bodie. Sounded like 41's too, the guy getting planted's favorite caliber. I'm also given to understand that the perpetrator made it over the state line before the Rangers there in Bodie even got started. Who was that man in the black hat anyway?

Location updated, Ben.
 
Great response, Rusty; I appreciate you taking the time with some interesting info. Uhmmm, I wonder about the guy in the black hat, though. Was he wearing a mask and riding a horse named Silver? No, he had a white hat, didn't he? I guess we'll never know...;)
 
Well, the steed was white and named Rocinante ( or Roxinate ) after one of Cervantes' more memorable characters. If that tells you anything. If I don't respond for a week or two, call the Sparks College of Knowledge or the Lake's Crossing Institute for the Criminally Insane and ask for Don Rusty, aka Trustee Rusty.
 
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