OK everyone, I already checked/used the search function to look for something like this but nothing came up. 
Ok, today at lunch I was talking to a friend of mine about "stuff". We got talking about knives, guns, and the military. It turns out he also loves knives and guns too, my kind conversation
. It turns out that his father is an ex-SAS. Now, I was a skeptic at first but you have to understand, this guy (he's 15, same as me) knows quite a bit about everything related to the SAS. He has an extensive knowledge of knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, firearms, explosives, and military tactics. He also is knowledgeable in the area of operations that his father was part of. He claims his father has gone on numerous missions ranging from HAHO jumping over Laos (to eliminate a drug and arms dealer), to Iraq during Desert Sheild and later Desert Storm. He was also charged with misions that I am told are witten off as "I never heard of that before" kind of missions.
How this related to Busse Combat:
He says he still has the knife he was issued "back in the day". This is probably somewhere bewteen 1960-1985.
This is how he described the blade:
--About 8-9 inch blade
--Black coating and handle
--Balenced like a fighter
I thought this sounded a lot like a Desert Storm Fighter. Plus, the time frame seems right to me. Now the problem is, the blade is not like a standard DSF as the blade curves up in the last 2 inches of blade to the point (pun not intended) where the blade begins to take on the appearance of a schimitar. The thing that really got me interested was when he said, "It also has this hole in the metal beside the handle slabs." I understood this to mean either a choil or the Busse talon hole...
What do you think this is? I may be going over to his place later this week and I can report back. One other thing, he says this knife is rare.
Ok, today at lunch I was talking to a friend of mine about "stuff". We got talking about knives, guns, and the military. It turns out he also loves knives and guns too, my kind conversation
. It turns out that his father is an ex-SAS. Now, I was a skeptic at first but you have to understand, this guy (he's 15, same as me) knows quite a bit about everything related to the SAS. He has an extensive knowledge of knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, firearms, explosives, and military tactics. He also is knowledgeable in the area of operations that his father was part of. He claims his father has gone on numerous missions ranging from HAHO jumping over Laos (to eliminate a drug and arms dealer), to Iraq during Desert Sheild and later Desert Storm. He was also charged with misions that I am told are witten off as "I never heard of that before" kind of missions. How this related to Busse Combat:
He says he still has the knife he was issued "back in the day". This is probably somewhere bewteen 1960-1985.
This is how he described the blade:
--About 8-9 inch blade
--Black coating and handle
--Balenced like a fighter
I thought this sounded a lot like a Desert Storm Fighter. Plus, the time frame seems right to me. Now the problem is, the blade is not like a standard DSF as the blade curves up in the last 2 inches of blade to the point (pun not intended) where the blade begins to take on the appearance of a schimitar. The thing that really got me interested was when he said, "It also has this hole in the metal beside the handle slabs." I understood this to mean either a choil or the Busse talon hole...
What do you think this is? I may be going over to his place later this week and I can report back. One other thing, he says this knife is rare.
