Rambo’s “Real” knife

SharpBits said:
He had a wife in Japan at the same time. He’s not a good person.
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Never liked him just teen lust with his hottie.....😜
SharpBits said:
From the book I read years ago, the Tunnel Rats also used 1911s in the tunnel.
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SPARIINGLY............. wouldn't hear shit for hours after shooting a 45 in that tight space........Happened often I'm sure but.given a choice........🤔.......Who knows😉
 
If John Rambo was a real person, he wouldn't have carried anything less than a smatchet... In every movie!
 
Realistically, he probably wouldn't have been carrying a large fixed blade wandering around towns. He would've been very savvy and wouldn't want to take unnecessary risks with the law. To be discreet, but still well armed, in a manner of speaking, I'd say a Buck 110 would've been on his belt in a well worn leather sheath/case. I've heard they were popular in Vietnam, as they were as bullet proof as a folder could get back then and large enough to be very capable. While not as fun, I think this is more likely.

If we're saying it needs to be a cool fixed blade, a Randall of some sort would be hard to beat! A Gerber Mk. II could easily be his choice, or the aforementioned Kabar. One of a hundred stout hunting knives could do, as well. There were plenty of great knives available during Vietnam. A lot less ChiCom junk was filling store shelves, so it would be easy to walk into any sporting goods type store or gun shop and walk out with a high quality knife capable of anything he needed, except holding the sutures he used to fix himself.

I'll add a cool one, though I don't know when it was first produced: the Grohmann #4 Survival model. It has that unique Grohmann profile in a beefy blade with an acute point for taking out sentries 😁 I have one in black Micarta and it's a really good knife, that any self-respecting green beret in 'Nam would've been proud to carry!

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I think he would have carried a Ruana, I mentioned it before I think in this thread. After the war, he would be living in a van down by the river, and be a motivational speaker, only after retiring and drifting through the 80s and 90s, and having missed the call for the Predator mission, spec ops. Or an EK commando knife, after I saw one in the other thread.
 
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Synov said:
Sort of like how some vets started "remembering" being spit on after coming home from Vietnam but only decades later when that became a common scene in movies. No contemporaneous reports of anti-war hippies spitting on Vietnam vets have been found.
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In 1972 they spit on my dad. You could do anything you wanted in a fight. You could break them cut them stab them you didn't shoot them but if you spit on them he'd beat your ass. Might want to find a little better example.
 
Brews_N_Ale said:
I know Rambo’s knife is a contintious subject, but please bear with me. . .
theoretically, if John Rambo were a real person at that time, what knife could that have been? I’m guessing either the Spanish Aitor jungle survival knife or more likely a Randall.
Essentially, what are some real world inspirations for that knife.
Thanks
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Buck 110
 
killgar said:
It's my understanding that in the book "First Blood" by David Morrell, that the movie was based on, Rambo didn't even have a knife.

But I'll say Marine Kabar. He was a Vietnam vet after all.
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He actually took a "hunting knife" off Teasle's mentor after killing him!
 
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