Nostalgic purchase

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

Sober since 1-7-14 (still a Paranoid Nutjob)
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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I can't believe it... I just scored the knife I carried on my body armor when I was in Iraq, not THE exact same one but the same model. I lost it in December 2003, it came off my vest during combat. I'm very fortunate to find one over a decade after they stopped making them... in like new condition!

For the same price I paid back in 2003!

I would still carry this knife in combat today.

 
I am not qualified in any way Charlie Mike ... but heart to heart to you for your find ... I can only offer my honest best to you
 
great story, Charlie-mike. makes me want my gerber I had in nam. long, long gone. and let me tell you another thing, brother. your sobriety only gets BETTER. 29 years last month and NO regrets. hang tough.
mike
 
Awesome knive :D

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Way to go. I have both a .45 and USMC K-Bar similar to what I carried as a grunt in Viet Nam. Nostalgic on steroids. Great photo CM.
 
nice man... there are things that just are a piece of you forever. I'm the same way. if I could find an old ATS-34 benchmade 830 again I'd buy it in a minute... matter of fact, I'm off to search for one right now.

Thanks CM. mission is on
 
Bought on the 'Bay a year or two ago to replace the original, lost in a pile of autumn leaves 50+ years ago in the course of a dumb game of mumbledy-peg.

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It's in better shape than my original was when lost.
 
In hindsight, I don't know how it didn't fall off my vest earlier :eek:
 
Great score.

We had a SOG Seal Team mounted to the side of our tank under the smoke grenade launcher in Kuwait. It was beat to hell from cutting things a knife shouldn't cut, but it served it's purpose. When we left I gave it to my loader. He thought that was the coolest thing.
 
Well played, CM. There is a lot to be said for tracking down a personal favorite, even if it's not the actual one you used to own. I've lucked out doing the same with guitars over the years, miraculously finding the same model I owned as a punk kid, not even knowing the model name/number. Very rewarding.
 
Man I still miss my Cold Steel Triple Action. That was a great knife. Damn police "confiscated" it, said it was a gravity knife. Now they're impossible to find and sell for a ton of cash :(
 
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