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Old 10-04-2017, 08:45 PM
Naphtali Naphtali is offline
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I'm not wanting to be argumentative. I'm trying to understand differences and/or comparisons. Cleaning out one of my "stuff" boxes I found a 1996 Knife World broadsheet magazine in which was an article about the Ka-Bar knife. I have no idea whose magazine it was. And I had never before thought about what an aggressively general purpose knife the Ka-Bar had to be.

Why would the USMC (or whoever did the choosing of the knife's design and manufacturer) have selected a narrow full-tanged blade during World War II when Marines' combat was close to "backs against the wall" in the south Pacific? Anticipating procurement would choose low bid on comparable quality, I wonder about cost of affixing handles?

A related question might be: In anything other than an emergency why would anyone use a halfway decent knife as a pry bar? An emergency occurring more often than, say, once or twice - is it an emergency?
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