Old friend returns home.

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Reacquired an old Randall that was presented to me by a 4th. Inf. Div. LRRP that he took off a NVA officer that he wacked on Ho Chi Minh Trail. Feel real lucky to have gotten it back. I know the dude didn't want to part with it.
 
Thanks to both of you for your service. That knife means a lot, I'm sure.
 
To old & to stupid to do all this here fancy stuff to da computer machine. Am a pencil and paper person, plus I can't type worth a poop either. It's a Model 14 Attach that was really in beat up shape. The sheath is still limp as a wet noodle, and still to this day, smells of the jungle. No matter how often I try to clean it, green mold will grow on it. A couple years back I took it to the shop and bead blasted it and dropped it in the parkerizing tank. Now it doesn't look all scratched up and been sharpened on a brick.
 
Here is a pic of a Randall Model 14 Attack. It is a Model 14, not the one in question though.

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Ass2sin said:
To old & to stupid to do all this here fancy stuff to da computer machine. Am a pencil and paper person, plus I can't type worth a poop either. It's a Model 14 Attach that was really in beat up shape. The sheath is still limp as a wet noodle, and still to this day, smells of the jungle. No matter how often I try to clean it, green mold will grow on it. A couple years back I took it to the shop and bead blasted it and dropped it in the parkerizing tank. Now it doesn't look all scratched up and been sharpened on a brick.
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Hmmmm....
The post needs a pic of the knife in question - posting a pic is not difficult; use a host i.e. Photobucket or similar. Instructions are posted here on the forum. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1394713-How-do-I-post-pictures-from-a
 
If I had a knife with that kind of history, I would leave it in the same condition I got it. But that's me.

It sounds to me like every scratch might have had an interesting story behind it. A knife with such an interesting history would be a treasure.
 
Ass2sin said:
Reacquired an old Randall that was presented to me by a 4th. Inf. Div. LRRP that he took off a NVA officer that he wacked on Ho Chi Minh Trail. Feel real lucky to have gotten it back. I know the dude didn't want to part with it.
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Um...Let me see if I understand this right.

Ass2sin lost the Randall knife to some NVA officer. A "4th Inf. Div. LRRP" killed the NVA officer and knew who the owner was and returned it back to Ass2sin even tho he was tempted to keep it for himself?

That is ... one odd situation, to say the least.
 
glad that the coveted war trophy has made its way back.
which makes me wonder just how many Nam era knives had fallen to enemy hands
and till this day remains unaccounted for.
would be something if sightings of any remaining left behind steel partners in present day Nam gets reported.
and documented on you tube by some adventurous backpacking traveler ;-)
who knows if it's crazy enough to cook some hair brained plan for an expedition to recover the movie prop knife
which John Rambo threw on to the burning pirate boat set somewhere wrecked along the banks of the Salween River
latest

such a relic if it exist, must be worth plenty down the road.
Such a find makes this a genuine grail knife.
 
LadyEarth said:
Um...Let me see if I understand this right.

Ass2sin lost the Randall knife to some NVA officer. A "4th Inf. Div. LRRP" killed the NVA officer and knew who the owner was and returned it back to Ass2sin even tho he was tempted to keep it for himself?

That is ... one odd situation, to say the least.
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Did you notice my 'Hmmmm....?':rolleyes:
 
This is such an incredible story it begs more info and certainly a few pictures. How did you come to lose the knife originally, and how on earth did the finder know it was your knife? It would make more sense if it fell out of the sheath while crawling around the jungle, but you said the sheath was still with the knife. You have whetted our appetite so please give us more details and pictures of the knife.
 
LadyEarth said:
Um...Let me see if I understand this right.

Ass2sin lost the Randall knife to some NVA officer. A "4th Inf. Div. LRRP" killed the NVA officer and knew who the owner was and returned it back to Ass2sin even tho he was tempted to keep it for himself?

That is ... one odd situation, to say the least.
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Color me ....incredulous as well.

Then again, stranger things have happened.

Winston Churchill lost his Mauser C96 to a Boer, when WC was taken as a POV and later WC got it back due to Churchill having fixed one of his 'carte de visite' under a grip slab.
A Brit recovered the gun after a skirmish, cleaned the gun, found the card and gave the C96 back to Churchill.

I look forward to proof from the OP, as such a knife/story requires a certain provenance ...., but Im not holding my breath.
 
I feel like some of you are getting some of the details out of order. As I read it, the LRRP got the knife off a dead NVA (how did he get it) and then gave it to the OP. Nothing in the OP's post states that he personally served in Vietnam, so maybe this was a friend who gifted him the knife?

By saying "reacquire," I take it to mean that the OP lost the knife, or perhaps had to sell it and now had the opportunity to buy it back. Totally different interpretation from what some other folks are presenting.
 
Sounds like the OP was given the knife way after the fact.

Kept it, swapped it away etc, got it back again.
 
Inazone said:
I feel like some of you are getting some of the details out of order. As I read it, the LRRP got the knife off a dead NVA (how did he get it) and then gave it to the OP. Nothing in the OP's post states that he personally served in Vietnam, so maybe this was a friend who gifted him the knife?

By saying "reacquire," I take it to mean that the OP lost the knife, or perhaps had to sell it and now had the opportunity to buy it back.
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Ill admit thats a possible scenario and await further details and pics from the OP.
 
Inazone and Danke42 I appreciate both of your interpretations of his story for us, however I would like to hear from the op in his words the story of the Randall and its provenance. Still a little skeptical with only two posts from him and joint BF on 5/16/16. I have viet nam era knives and large collection of Randalls so his story and pictures of the knife and sheath would be very interesting to me and I'm sure others. If in fact it is a Viet Nam era knife with original sheath belonging to him it could be very valuable, although he claims to have cleaned it up and parkerized it.
Well how about it OP would you kindly share more of your story and the knife/sheath with us.
 
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