Winner Announced - Anchor Down CONTEST - Mark 1 USN Knife

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This one is open to Ka-Bar Krew and Beckerheads.
Up for grabs is Ka-Bar's remake of the famous Mark 1 USN knife. Brand new and in the box: http://www.kabar.com/knives/detail/184

What do you have to do? Post your best picture of an anchor (an actual anchor) with a Ka-Bar made knife somewhere in the picture.
The bigger the anchor, the better. Bonus points if you are USN active or a USN veteran.
Any creative additions are welcome. You are welcome to dress like a sailor and jump in the pic. :D

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A few stipulations:
  • ONLY ONE POST and ONE PHOTO per contestant. Make it your best work.
  • No chatting please. We have a Ka-Bar chat thread if you want to remark on the contest. Any chat goes there.
  • To win, the knife must be legal to ship to your state. If you are under 18, you can still enter and win, but in such case, the knife must ship to a guardian.
  • Open to international contestants, but if you are outside the States and win, you must cover shipping. I learned that lesson the hard way the last contest. :p
  • You must be Ka-Bar Krew or a Beckerhead by the time of your entry.
  • The contest will run for approximately one month.

Man, I like this knife. I almost kept it and just sent Ka-Bar a check. However, it was earmarked as contest material, and so it begins! Good luck. :thumbup:

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Reserved

Thanks for the GAW Buscuit. I will be participating with a submission on Monday.

Went to the Columbia River Maritime museum in Astoria, OR and found plenty of anchors. There was a lot of people around so I only got one pic of me holding the BK24. The rest I had to be pretty inconspicuous about. I didn't want someone to call the cops reporting "...man with a knife threatening an anchor." We all know how fearful people are these days. Anyway, here are the pic

This anchor was huge!!

 
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Will a scan of a picture work? I need to dig up my old photo albums for this one. (I think I have a pic of the Nimitz' anchor or anchors.) I also have an old grainy VHS video of the anchors being dropped, but no Kabar content in it, unfortunately.

This post will be my entry once I find my photos.

~Chris
 
I will edit this with my entry when I go to Chicago in a couple weeks. Hopefully it will be in time. Navy Pier up there has a MONSTER anchor. At least last time I was there they did. Hopefully it will still be there.
 
I'm 125 miles inland. Biggest anchor, and maybe only anchor of size, around is behind a gate in front of an Underwater Archaeology Conservation building on the riverside research portion of the A&M campus. The gray SUV seems to park in front of it everyday. Don't know where the water is from. It hasn't rained in forever.



If you squint you can see the orange scales on my KA-BAR Becker BK24. If you squint super hard you can read the sign in the background that says, "No Unauthorized Access" in big letters and a lot of further warnings in smaller letters.

I was just glad the cop patrolling the area didn't show up for a few more minutes.
 
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Found me an anchor, reserving a spot. :D

Alrighty, here we go, I'm in!

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Not a big anchor, but there are at least 6 in that pic, quantity has to count for something, right? :D

If it has to be a big anchor, here you go...

ANCHOR! :D

Thanks for the chance, Biscuit!
 
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Ok, Here it goes! See if you can see my KA-BAR 1211 on one of the TWO giant anchors! They were kinda heavy moving them both there for the picture, but hey... I really wanna win! :D

 
Our local VFW had an anchor, who knew?

This is my Great Grandpa's old Ka-Bar stockman. It was one of the things he left me when he died years ago. No bonus points, he was a WWII soldier, I was a Marine.




You can tell this knife was used a lot around the farm. The blades are all worn from years of use and sharpening.
 
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Hope I can snag a picture of an anchor near me before this closes :thumbup: Reserved. This weekend.
 
Okay, I'll let it run till Monday. The end is nigh.
 
Ok, let's close this thread:

Ka-bar Dozier Phat Bob, modified to rigging knife profile. Been throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, through the Panama Canal (without me!), to the Galapagos, and up the west coast of North America to the fjords of British Columbia (presently). Anchor is the the spare on the bow of the ship which netted me that hat in Galapagos, filming for Nat Geo. Currently offshore of Vancouver Island (and city of Vancouver), in the Strait of Georgia. This blade sliced cleanly through a piece of Spectra line for the deck chief, who was re-terminating the haul line for the ROV (4000lb). Impressed him quite a bit.

Howzat? :-D
(I know, if only the picture were better...)

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Dang it - I drove 130 miles one-way to the Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz Museum and the National Museum of the Pacific War, both located in Fredericksburg Tx. They have the closest large anchors in Texas to where I live. Got there only to find that the "Pacific Combat Zone", which has a replica invasion beach, tanks, artillery, an Avenger TBM torpedo plane, battleship and cruiser anchors, one of only 2 WW2 combat action PT boats still in existance, landing craft, etc are displayed - only to find all the equipment hauled off and put in storage while the PCZ is undergoing refurbishment. RATS!!!

One of the improvements is tripling the size of the TBM display so that the wings can be unfolded.

Got lots of pics, including 1 with one of my WW2 Kabar brand square-peened 1219C2s w NORD sheath in front of a single link (349 lbs) from the anchor chain of the USS Nimitz (CVN-77) and a couple more shots of it with the HA-19, the third of 5 midget submarines used in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was captured rather than destroyed because it ran aground during the attack (multiple times) due to a faulty gyrocompass.

And NOW I can't find my download cable.:grumpy:

OK - found the cable. Here's a shot of the 1219C2 on the top torpedo tube of the HA19. Closest I could get to an anchor picture here in central Texas. I know it's not a valid entry as a submarine is not an anchor (except when it sinks :D) But it is 2 WW2 relics together. Apologies for the dark shot, but the sub is in an Audio-Visual room with projections on the walls that loops every 5 minutes.

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I'll be posting a bunch of pics later of the trip showing many of the sharp/pointy objects in the museum. Some here/most in general, probably as only a couple of the knives were 1219C2s/USN-MK2s.
 
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best I can do - a pic out of my boot camp book with the chow hall anchor in it.
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There's a second anchor on the flag, but glare pretty much hides it.
 
Okay folks, thanks for participating in a cool contest.
I tossed this one to the higher-ups at Ka-Bar, and they chose post #9 as the winner, despite his ugly mug being in the shot!
Classic Ka-Bar, good heritage story, big-ass anchor. Murph, send me your address.
 
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