Whats the craziest thing you have done with a kabar?

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The last post got me thinking. Most of us knife nuts have all had a kabar at one time or another in our lifetime. What is the most foolish or craziest thing you have done with yours? My most irritating experience was dropping a Camillus model into a board from waist level. Broke a good portion of the tip off. So much for my brand new F/U. Another time I took one completely apart and epoxied all the washers together and soldered the guard onto the blade. Always hated how after a little use the guard always ended up rattling around.

Anyone else have any interesting kabar stories?
 
I have shaved, opened C-Rats, dug holes, made wooded spikes, cut wire, cut tree limbs and just about anything I could think of doing

SFC
 
One of my first knives was a Ka-Bar. Immidiatly after getting it out of the box i thought: i own a big knife, so i can handle it (i was 14 then). I walked in front of my grandmothers house, looked for the nearest tree. Found one right beside the canal in front of their house... 10 paces from the tree i swing and throw. Knife did hit the tree, but bounced off, ofcourse straight into the canal. So i ended up owning that knife for about 10 minutes :) Guess that is about as dumb a thing i EVER did with a Ka-Bar (or ANY knife for that matter... Even thinking back about it makes me grin.... the wrecklessness of youth...
 
I woulda jumped in after it :)

I have the NextGen ka-bar, I hacked a big branch off a fallen log with it to save a fishing lure. The pommel almost rattled off but I hammered it back down :)
 
I got it taken from the display case at the gun shop and looked at it, thats about it... :(
 
One time, at band camp, . .

I just got one and haven't done anything stupid with it except to make sure it was sharp but cutting my forearm.
 
I got a nice Stag handled KaBar folding Hunter from my Mothers boyfriend and I put it away in a case, now for me not to carry or use a knife is insane.
 
I relied on one through the first 3 years of marriage to my wife as the only knife we had other than a butter knife.

We didn't own a can opener so we used the knife to open all our cans. We also used it as a jack handle, a tent stake, a log splitter, a paint scraper, a general cutter, a lock for the side door, a defensive weapon, and a toy (to throw into targets).

Can't go wrong with a KaBar!
 
a week after i got mine i grabbed it by the blade and threw it in the air and tried to catch it by the handle. i missed and cut my thumb open :grumpy:
 
I think the craziest thing I have done (or am doing) so far, is hanging it on the coat tree most of the time as a decoration. It is eye pleasing.... but man... I do prefer to carry it out and use it...when do I get a chance to use it in the wild again.... aaaw... :p
 
I cut some kids ball with one.
Got tired of having to answer the doorbell. Dingdong Dingdong Dingdong. Wait 7 seconds then they ring it again till you get to the door. Then have to go into the back yard and find it or fish it out of the pool, then throw it over the fence. Gave them their final warning. If it comes over again, its gone.
And this wasnt just a couple of times. This was half a dozen times a day, every day, for weeks on end. It had to stop.

It came over again :D
This might sound cold and mean, but I was tired of chasing the frikkin ball down all the time.
 
Returned from a camping/hunting trip, left the hardware type gear packed for about 10 months, and when I dug the knife out and pulled it out of the sheath, it had rusted and pitted horribly. I felt like someone had killed my dog. Bummer.
 
To this day my worst mistake with one was trading a very good condition WWII era (Complete with the soldiers name ingraved on the blade) for a $10 Tawain survival knife. I was only 10 or 11 years old at the time. DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN!
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