Proven Military knives

gi tanto is not a bad choice .

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marcinek said:
Why?

(Nice mods! :thumbup:)
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it is a not bad choice for GI , cause gi tanto is very cheap and 1055 carbon steel with lower HRC made it tough .
glock bayonet is a better one i think .

i like busse HG55, and think it really suit for you guys need, if bugget is not tight.
 
Entrenching tools are probably better weight for soldiers than big knives. You can can dig fortifications with them and if worst comes to worst hit someone with them. On todays asymmetric battlefield though fortifications are made with front end loaders and soldiers are supplied with enough ammo that melee combat doesn't factor into it.
 
dingy said:
it is a not bad choice for GI , cause gi tanto is very cheap and 1055 carbon steel with lower HRC made it tough .
glock bayonet is a better one i think .

i like busse HG55, and think it really suit for you guys need, if bugget is not tight.
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But why? For knife fighting? That doesn't happen. I realize that it is affordable and made of a tough carbon steel, but do you need a largish fixed blade like that for opening MREs like Charlie Mike did while he served?

I just dont understand why carrying that (or a karambit or a dagger) would make sense, when a Leatherman or SAK would do the tasks you woud use it for 99.9999% of the time. Sure, if one gets in a knife fight, you want the tanto....but when else?
 
As I said before they give you a bayonet with a rifle. You really dont need any other fixed blade. When i first got in I bought a usmc kabar. It lasted two trips to the field. I was like why am I carrying this I dont use it and its extra weight. After figuring out its easier to carry a pocket knife or bali to entertain myself or kill MREs. But truthfully a multi tool proved most useful, we used it to adjust the sights and fix the guns and amazingly it will also open MREs. This op said he was a pog so if they like to carry big knives so be it. What they use them for I'm really not sure. But like the rest of us here we all have a knife addiction so its all good. But there is alway posts like my son is going into the service what should I get them. My advice everytime is a good multi tool or a good folder. The service will issue them a fixed blade if they need one.
 
The weight of a large "combat" knife could be better used for carrying more magazines.
 
marcinek said:
But why? For knife fighting? That doesn't happen. I realize that it is affordable and made of a tough carbon steel, but do you need a largish fixed blade like that for opening MREs like Charlie Mike did while he served?

I just dont understand why carrying that (or a karambit or a dagger) would make sense, when a Leatherman or SAK would do the tasks you woud use it for 99.9999% of the time. Sure, if one gets in a knife fight, you want the tanto....but when else?
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ok, ok , i am not an army guy , never in the troops , so lots of hype here in my mind.:D
 
dingy said:
ok, ok , i am not an army guy , never in the troops , so lots of hype here in my mind.:D
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I am not an army guy either! :) I think your modded GI Tanto is very cool. I have big, scary, stabby knives myself. They are fun!

And most of the knives listed in the original post are big, scary, stabby, fun knives. "Proven" big, scary, stabby, fun knives. They just don't seem to efficiently do what Charlie Mike and Topcatpt say "military" knives need to do.

So I don't understand how they are "proven military knives." :confused:
 
The best knife I can suggest is the Knife Research Legion. Here you can see it compared to Fallkniven A1

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HIGH RESOLITION IMAGE

KR produces in small quantities with very high quality. But prices are honest and performances are superior to almost all te knives in tha same category.
 
Charlie Mike said:
The weight of a large "combat" knife could be better used for carrying more magazines.
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Or water. Or chewing tobacco or porn. There are a lots of things that a soldier would rather spend weight on than an artificial-penis type knife!

Also: one of these "pogs" says he carries a knife strictly as a tool and yet chose a Gerber Mk2 - hello???
 
I can't say that I have much knowledge about soldiering. I do know a lot of guys who served in Iraq and Afghanistan but that's the limit of my knowledge.
I'm not a proponent of large knives in general since there is usually a better tool for any job that they can be used for.
Anyway, this topic sort of applies to an article that I read last night. I'll try and find a link. The article was written by a sniper who was trained to use his pistol while moving between locations (hides?) He talked about training for "High Risk, Low Frequency" occurrences. He didn't plan on ever having to use his sidearm but still carried it and trained with it. Then he went on to describe an event where one of his fellow snipers, who was least proficient with a pistol, used his sidearm to successfully defend himself against three opponents while moving between locations on a roof in Iraq. It just goes to show that sometimes you do need a different level of self defense. I also recall reading a book written by a soldier who served in Iraq early on in the war. I believe he was a Marine Sargent. Anyway, he successfully (and stupidly) cleared a house by himself, ran out of ammo and grenades half way through, and ended up using a cheap and dull Gerber folding knife to defend himself against an attacker when it came to hand to hand combat. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the soldier or the book. It was a really good read though.
 
Topcatpt said:
I served in the Marines in afghanistan I never seen anyone with a tomahawk lol.
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That's nothing to lol about. Tomahawks are actually pretty common in use by our boys. They are serious tools that shouldn't be taken lightly.

If I had the choice of carrying a fixed blade or tomahawk I would take the hawk in a heart beat.
 
In my mind, I would want a ESEE 3 and a light multitool. But I've never served so maybe I'm off. If I was clearing houses, I think I would want a tomahawk as backup and know how to use it. I kind of got the idea because I know Edwood carries one and I have seen an interview with him on another site talking about it being an effective weapon. But again I have never cleared a house so maybe I'm wrong. It seems like the tomahawk would come in handy to have in the Humvee or at base if you were deployed.
 
Chris Pierce said:
Anyway, he successfully (and stupidly) cleared a house by himself, ran out of ammo and grenades half way through, and ended up using a cheap and dull Gerber folding knife to defend himself against an attacker when it came to hand to hand combat. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the soldier or the book. It was a really good read though.
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You cant defend yourself with a folder, let alone a Gerber folder! :D
 
Knifein said:
That's nothing to lol about. Tomahawks are actually pretty common in use by our boys. They are serious tools that shouldn't be taken lightly.

If I had the choice of carrying a fixed blade or tomahawk I would take the hawk in a heart beat.
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I'm not questioning what you may or may not have seen but in eight years in the infantry scout I never ONCE saw anyone carrying a tomahawk. Closest I saw was a guy who had a small gerber camp axe and all he did with it was throw it into stuff when he was bored.

As far as knives go, I carried a sog seal pup for quite some time until the sheath on it failed and it disappeared on me on a night maneuver, right off my belt. But for the most part small folding knives is all everyone carried. I did know a guy who had a sog seal 2000 (larger version of the seal pup).

We had bayonets from time to time for kicks but hardly ever attached them to our rifles. More often guys would carry machetes on their backs, in their rucksack frame, for clearing brush and the like...not really for any intended combat purpose.
 
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