The two newest Khuks:

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I haven't really put the 20" kobra to as much of a strenuous test. The 13-3/4" blade will certainly cut pine and oak limbs but the oak limbs over 2" I felt was not it's cup of tea. This knife seems to be just naturally be by design a fighter. It just doesn't make scense to me that a blade this long should balance so well. Besides the blade being a real hell raiser, it has some beautiful wood on it. Any body that has watched what I have bought knows that I am not a woodchuck, but I will do the best I can with this handle. All the others I have are horns and shine like the spanked baby's rear.

I took the knife out back of the house for about a thirty minute workout. Just unbelievable. smooth and so quick that for the first ten minutes or so I had to be very careful that I wasn't practicing on myself. It's just kind of graceful like a crane or a flamingo. There was a pretty good south wind blowing so you really could hear the swish of the blade when moving fast, even sounded deadly.

After handling the longer blades for a while the 15" Siru. felt like a kitchen knife in my hand. Still, even though it is small it is one heck of a knife. I had to take one spot of about 1" of feather edge off just at the curve of the blade an this took but a very few strokes with small hard stone. I had just come inside from checking to see how it would do on small limbs. Mama says "can I see that?" She took it out holding the sheath in the proper manner. Checked out the karda, then the chakma put all back in the sheath and hung it on her rack under the Micro-wave. "I can't handle those heavy ones you have in that office of yours but I can this one." She sure can too. So Moms got a new kitchen knife. The best part of this is that it is still in the family.

I guess you can tell that this old Marine has the HIKV real bad.:D :D :D
 
I'm not sure what you want to hear about my choice of weapons. To me there is no choice. All night long I have a BAS within reach. I feel that in the dark I have a bit more control of where that blade is going to go. You have to realize what kind of crazy person you are asking this question of.

I now have guns and Khuks pretty handy almost all over this little farm. In the Shop, Green house, tool shed, and garage. they are not left to rust either. they get switched around, cleaned and oiled regularly.

Direct answer to your question. The Siru. has got to be the choice between the two. Even though the Kobra is a fine weapon, I don't feel that it will take the beating that I have already given the 18" Siru. The way I see it between the two the heavier weapon is the better survival tool. The Siru's just have more weight to do more things than the Kobra. I hope that I havn't made anyone mad.
 
Originally posted by Pappy
Direct answer to your question. The Siru. has got to be the choice between the two. Even though the Kobra is a fine weapon, I don't feel that it will take the beating that I have already given the 18" Siru. The way I see it between the two the heavier weapon is the better survival tool. The Siru's just have more weight to do more things than the Kobra. I hope that I havn't made anyone mad.
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That's what I wanted to hear.

S.
 
Sir, Your comment sounds like you have one or are considering getting a Siru. That or I am way off base somewhere. to add just a bit unless I am going to do some heavy chopping in which case the AK goes with me. The rest of the time, 50Yds. from the house and the 18" Sirupati is on my left hip, ready for a cross draw.

I will no be killed by a blow to the head from one of my own hammers, the way a woman that lived a few miles down the road from me was.
 
I have a couple of sirupatis, a 20" and a 25".
Both of them have the weight and spine thickness to do anything that I could imagine asking them to do. The most abusive jobs that you would ask an axe to perform. They may be a little less efficient than an axe, but the job will get done. Yet they can do what you would ask of a large knife. The 25" one compares better to a short axe than one might think. I also have an 18" Gelbu Special and an 18" Chitlangi. They have more finesse,and are quicker, and I've not yet found a weakness in them, but for one knife to take anything on, I'd choose the sirupati. For smaller stuff, the GS and Chit win for ease of use. I suspect I will at some point get a Kobra, just to see what one is like. A knife fight is another matter, then the agility and quickness would be a top consideration, from what very little I know of knife fights. Any khuk is d*mn scary in that application.
 
I would say that most people are inclined to take a step back when a Real Khuk is brought to the ready. After useing the 18" Siru. as much as I have, Surely that soldier in Afghanistan had to be pulling that knife before it hit its target. There is not a doubt in my mind that the 20 incher will remove an arm with not too much real effort. Don't ya just love their capabilities. Just think, what other knife has had the hundreds of years of development. Swords yes, but working knives, I think not too many.
 
We have pretty much settled on the 20 inch Sirupati as the standard issue for Marines in Nepal -- IF I can get their attention which I've had difficulty doing. I'll make an individual post about that.
 
Somewhere in my filing cabinet I have a couple of URL that I can check for you an e-mail address or some way to contact Headquarters Marine Corps. I will try to have some kind of information for you when you come on line in the AM tomorrow. What ever I can find, I'll do the best I can.:)
 
Originally posted by Pappy
Sir, Your comment sounds like you have one or are considering getting a Siru.
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Got one, Pappy.

Since my first exposure to HIKV, about six months back, I've had a number of long, brown packages come my way. Some longer, some shorter.

But, the 18" Siru is my favorite.

S.
 
Pappy, you said you thought the 20" (?) would remove an arm...has anyone here done enough work on the farm, or dressed wild game to know? Seems to me a human arm bone would put up some stiff resistance. Would a Khuk really sail through? Anyone?


Pappy, the gal on the farm, was it known who killed her? Was it random, or is your area having a bad time? I've lived in some real rotten areas.

munk
 
They have the guy that did it,in jail in Houston.
The last I heard he had killed 7 or 8 people in 3 or 4 different states. Just riding around on freight trains and getting off to kill some body and get back on another train to go somewhere else to do it again.

You may have heard about this guy on the news. A Tesas Ranger talked the dumb A$$ into coming back across the border into the States.

I have a railroad track about 1 & 1/4 miles from my house and that is close enough for me to be just a bit wary. I don't creep around the place afraid of my shadow. I have that wolf hybrid that likes to hunt all night, and the Pit Bull and Boxer that doesn't miss much during the day.
I didn't teach those two to do it but every morning they take a tour all the way around the place before Tashawolf goes to sleep. Same thing in the evening before Marlo goes to bed. Needless to say if one makes much noise they are both awake. About the only time that the wolf dog makes any noise is if coyotes or people are around fairly close. Then she will let you know what her daddy was. As soon as she starts to howl the coyotes get down right quiet. Her noise is when I grab a khuk or gun or both.

By the way, Tasha's eyes are both a very pale blue. A bit unsettling to some folks
 
Pappy, you mean the freight train mass murderer killed your neighbor?

I don't trust pit bulls. Don't know if it depends upon the owner or just the law of averages, but when they snap they seem to really snap.

My only concern where I live would be mean drunks from the Res or just meth criminals in general wandering by, checking out my truck parked in the woods or whatever. I suppose a crazy could wander off the interstate.

most people are armed in the ranching area I live in. Criminals wouldn't get the easy break they get in the city.

When I worked in the gun store a nice guy came in for some hardware. He was an engineer. Seems when he and his family went out desert treking some people in a Blazer fired shots over their heads as they drove by. He realized how vunerable he was with his wife and small children so he armed himself, and changed his desert habits forever. Made me sad but I understood. I'd been hiking the desert a long time and had seen a few things myself.

munk
 
Yea, things are getting worse and it is growing that way with the population, but at a faster rate. They try to say that the crime rate has gone down in this area. I know that is Bull! I watch the news every day at the same time, There is some kind of major crime reported on every day. And, a lot of the time more than one. Burglary, armed robbery (convienience store), bank or savings and loan. Rapes around here have got in tothe middle schools. Somebody is knifed, shot, or assaulted almost every night, and more times than not they are murdered. And now they have started these carjackings. I worry about my wife going to school four days a week but a person can't just stop living. I'm sure considering making me a rig to carry a Khuk on the bike.

It seems like when they do catch the worst of the criminals it takes for ever for them to get to trial. Then, one stupid technicality and the guy walks out of the courthouse to go do it again. For my money I think Old Mexico had the right idea. The ones caught red handed didn't need a trial. An adobe wall and a half dozen bullets was all that was needed. The rest need investigation and a trial but, not like the jokes we have in this country. They aren't the same anymore either. A bunch of dogooders got in to power enough to mess things all up.

I guess the lady lived about twenty miles as the crow flies but that is close in Texas. When I went to visit my daughter in California; it took me over a day just to get past El Paso.:D :D
 
There was a mountain in Cal I used to climb. Had a homestead and coral at the base of it. One day I took a couple friends and we noticed a few tents. We stayed out of the imediate area out of courtesy. A man came over to us anyway, with three little boys in tow behind him. He was freindly, but something was wrong. I couldn't figure out what it was. I showed the kids the rocks I'd found.

Two weeks later I read in the news that a guy had taken three kids to the mountain and molested them over the weekend. He had some affiliation with the Scouts though this was a not a scouting trip.

I remembered he'd told us they were on a 'pre scout tune-up"


I just wish I'd listened to my instincts and intuition. I felt like the kids were trying to tell me something. I was hiking with a psychologist and a mental health worker, but they didn't spot anything wrong.

munk
 
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