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Stories of Khukris performance?
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l have a 20" AK. l got it for a heavy duty work chopper and it's performed above and beyond what l expected.
Like consistently being able to split firewood like an axe, and slicing through vines & branches larger in diameter than my wrist with a single blow.
Even with its heavy weight and thick blade, it slices just as well as it chops, and it feels very graceful in the hand.
Like consistently being able to split firewood like an axe, and slicing through vines & branches larger in diameter than my wrist with a single blow.
Even with its heavy weight and thick blade, it slices just as well as it chops, and it feels very graceful in the hand.
After I got my 18" WWII, I took it out to chop down a tree that had grown up too close to my garage. I decided to limb it a little to make it easier to chop. I figured it would take 3 or 4 hits to cut through the limb. It went through that limb on the first chop like a hot knife through butter! In fact, it went through so fast that it went straight down and into the ground.
This made me pay very close attention to the safety sticky!
This made me pay very close attention to the safety sticky!
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Baddlegg I don't know if the info is on the HI Website or where but the khukuri has been used to kill a leopard and a bear in Nepal. A Fish and Wildlife Agent in Florida killed a ten foot alligator, I think it was, with a khukuri when it got too close to kids at a hamburger stand; cut one heckuva hole in its head!!!!
Just about anything you can imagine and some you can't can be accomplished with a khukuri.:thumbup:
I have just spent the weekend clearing out the overgrown garden of my new house. I had a folding saw, a hatchet, shears and my 16.5 WWII. After about an hour the only thing I was using was the Khuk. Most of the clearing got done in the last couple of hours of the first day when my technique improved and I was slicing through stuff more regularly. The second day I used the Khuk again to cut everything into foot long lengths to go into the skip.
I am so glad I got that Khukri - so glad.
(I take it for camping trips but it never gets used as much as it did last weekend)
I am so glad I got that Khukri - so glad.
(I take it for camping trips but it never gets used as much as it did last weekend)
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I recall reading these stories on the HI site. On the same page, I believe, there was a letter from some creepy guy who was just itching to run afoul a carjacker or someone else to use it on.
I like the way my Samsher splits kindling. WAY easier than with my 15" AK!
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I recall reading these stories on the HI site. On the same page, I believe, there was a letter from some creepy guy who was just itching to run afoul a carjacker or someone else to use it on.
C.S. don't quote me but IIRC one of the old hands here, Broken Arrow, used either a long khukuri or an HI Katana to scare off a carjacker.:thumbup:
But it has been so long ago I can't recall the details or ---- if he was wanting such a thing to happen.
Broken Arrow is/was a LEO at the time and maybe still is. He was another one of the good guys here and like so many other old timers I miss seeing him here.
Kinda funny; when we were at the first khukuri khonvention in Reno Broken Arrow had a Kris Cutlery Barong and another large knife from them that he didn't think could be made any sharper.
I run them both over my strop a few times and I swear you could've split hairs with either of them!!!!
Needless to say Broken Arrow was impressed as was a few others.
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I've felled a couple trees (being + or - 12" in diameter) with both my 22" GRS and 20" AK, and they both still shave. I like the GRS more for that sort of thing though. Plenty of kendling has been chopped by my villager BAS, and I have yet to sharpen it either, although I have been thinking about working on its handle some.
Oh yeah, the HI katana I have. At one point in time I decided that I didn't like it very much and wanted to abuse it till I killed it. I chopped things up, like a sofa that smelled wierd, and stuck it in the floor boards of my apt and tried to bend it and break it. Neither of these things phased it. So I fell in love with it. Sure it was a blem, and it has some funky forging marks, but all the abuse I put it though just makes it more beautiful. BTW, it is one of the kats that has a horn handle with a dragon carved in it. The stick tang was kinda loose after all the testing so I took off some of the fittings and drilled around the tang then filled in the space with some 2 ton epoxy and glued/piened the fittings back on the tang. Never had any problems since.
The funny thing is that is one of the swords. The Khuks are even more stout and hold up even better to abuse.
Oh yeah, the HI katana I have. At one point in time I decided that I didn't like it very much and wanted to abuse it till I killed it. I chopped things up, like a sofa that smelled wierd, and stuck it in the floor boards of my apt and tried to bend it and break it. Neither of these things phased it. So I fell in love with it. Sure it was a blem, and it has some funky forging marks, but all the abuse I put it though just makes it more beautiful. BTW, it is one of the kats that has a horn handle with a dragon carved in it. The stick tang was kinda loose after all the testing so I took off some of the fittings and drilled around the tang then filled in the space with some 2 ton epoxy and glued/piened the fittings back on the tang. Never had any problems since.
The funny thing is that is one of the swords. The Khuks are even more stout and hold up even better to abuse.
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C.S. don't quote me but IIRC one of the old hands here, Broken Arrow, used either a long khukuri or an HI Katana to scare off a carjacker.:thumbup:
Could have been. Definitely got an eerie impression from the letter on the web page still. ;-)
I run them both over my strop a few times and I swear you could've split hairs with either of them!!!!
Needless to say Broken Arrow was impressed as was a few others.
As one of my buddies always says, "one of these days, you'll split an atom!"
Hi Folks
Had occasion to use my 12 inch Ang Khola at Coastguard the other night, turning a length of 1/2 inch polyprop rope into about 30 odd (suitable for lashings practice) lengths. Grabbed the chopping board out of the kitchen, and with two guys to help me (one to feed the rope to me and another to collect the pieces) the job was completed in about 4 minutes flat. Awesome little beastie, that 12 Inch Ang Khola!
Nigel
Had occasion to use my 12 inch Ang Khola at Coastguard the other night, turning a length of 1/2 inch polyprop rope into about 30 odd (suitable for lashings practice) lengths. Grabbed the chopping board out of the kitchen, and with two guys to help me (one to feed the rope to me and another to collect the pieces) the job was completed in about 4 minutes flat. Awesome little beastie, that 12 Inch Ang Khola!
Nigel
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Lopped the head off of a rattlesnake that was menacing my family today today with my Sirupati...
Does this count???
Grimalkin
Does this count???
Grimalkin
l just tonight sat down and got the edge on my sirupati where l wanted it. Very nice.
The Chakmak from my AK seemed to work better, but it took a very keen edge nonetheless.
l will say one thing though... the Karda with my new sirupati took an edge comparable with a straight razor.
The Chakmak from my AK seemed to work better, but it took a very keen edge nonetheless.
l will say one thing though... the Karda with my new sirupati took an edge comparable with a straight razor.
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Accidentally hit a marble countertop concealed under vines I was clearing out. Barely discernable chip out of 16.5 WWII; much larger chip from marble.
I also cut down a medium-sized tree with my lightest kukuri at the time, an 18" Chitlangi. It was work, but that pin oak didn't damage the light blade one bit.
I also cut down a medium-sized tree with my lightest kukuri at the time, an 18" Chitlangi. It was work, but that pin oak didn't damage the light blade one bit.