Your Military Knife

[29aholic]

Here's a link to a thread I started that had some interesting replies to.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/166714-anyone-actually-use-randall-knife.html
For those here that didnt see it, it might be of interest.

 

[bk43]

The one pictured above is being offered at $99.99 US.

$100 seems pretty steep to me. The knife is a military utility knife and they first became available with that handle during WWII. Untold millions were purchased during the war for servicemen and they have been available ever since. Every major maker supplied them to the government at one time or another. The design is a copy of the Boy Scout utility knife that goes back about 100 years.

Bob

 

[Fishslayer]

Here's a link to a thread I started that had some interesting replies to.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/lounge/166714-anyone-actually-use-randall-knife.html
For those here that didnt see it, it might be of interest.

There's a Randall on consignment at my LGS. Around $1K.

Beautiful knife. Absolutely beautiful. I'm sure it's extremely high quality.

...but c'mawn.

 

[Armyphotog]

The best killing knives have already been invented. My first choice would be the British Fairbain stilleto, already depicted in this thread.
That would be followed in a close second by the American M3 Trench knife, later altered into the M4 bayonet for the M1 carbine of WW2.

 

[jlrhiner]

This was my setup. The folder is a Gerber and came as a set with the Original multi-tool you see. In my pocket was an SAK.

 

[84CJ]

I am carrying a small Benchmade. Uncle Sam gave me a nice Gerber auto. But I chose to leave it at home. I see a lot of folks wearing some really hooa hooa knives and they never use them for anything but conversation.

Also if its an automatic and not issued customs will take it from you when you leave theater. You have to have a letter from the commander stating it is an issued knive to carry any auto home with you, or mail it back and there are some rules with that also.

I am dual carry meaning I carry an M-9 and an M-4 so I really have no use for a fighting knife. However, I would never leave home without a good pocket knife. And I also was issued a couple of Gerber multi tools. I do carry and use it regularly. But I have carried a Gerber multi tool for many years its just a part of who I am now.

 

[Frailer]

SAK in my pocket, and a Gerber multi-tool or Leatherman and a largish, relatively inexpensive folder in my LBE/vest.

I outgrew the really big fixed blade fighter on my pistol belt fairly early in my career.

 

[Cyrano]

I went to RVN with a Buck having a 4 inch blade, and a Swiss Army Knife, the Personal, if i remember rightgly.. The Buck stayed in my duffel bag. Teh Swiss Army slipped out of the patch pocket on my combat fatigurs when i was riding in a Huey. Your rump is only a couple of inches offf the floor, and your legs are at quite an angle. I looked for it in the ship, but it had either fallen out or someone else had gotten it. My wife sent me another; I retired it about 6 years ago: the plastic grips had worn enough that the edges of the metal shield around the Swiss cross were exposed; they were very sharp. I used the tools more than the blades; once I fixed the office Xerox machine so well that it took the techrep three days to get it going again.

 

[stantheman86]

The Gerber multitool is a must overseas, I must have like 5 of those things. It was my most used tool, for everything from cleaning weapons, opening MRE's, whatever you would need a tool for........ Broke most of the attachments eventually prying on things, etc. I still use them once in a while.

84CJ's post reminds me of how I had to throw my nice little Mako automatic folder in a dumpster on the way out of Iraq, because it wasn't worth the hassle to get the letter. I also collected Zippo lighters and the Customs people made me take the cotton out of about 10 Zippos and other lighters I had Basically ruined about $500 worth of nice brass Zippos I had sent over in the mail. I also had a few nice vintage Ronsons I got on FleaBay that were destroyed too........ridiculous.

 

[Texas Star]

The Gerber multitool is a must overseas, I must have like 5 of those things. It was my most used tool, for everything from cleaning weapons, opening MRE's, whatever you would need a tool for........ Broke most of the attachments eventually prying on things, etc. I still use them once in a while.

84CJ's post reminds me of how I had to throw my nice little Mako automatic folder in a dumpster on the way out of Iraq, because it wasn't worth the hassle to get the letter. I also collected Zippo lighters and the Customs people made me take the cotton out of about 10 Zippos and other lighters I had Basically ruined about $500 worth of nice brass Zippos I had sent over in the mail. I also had a few nice vintage Ronsons I got on FleaBay that were destroyed too........ridiculous.

Stan-

Maybe if you kept the rest of the lighters, Zippo will replace the cotton, if you tell them that this was due to US Customs abusing you after your service to this nation.

Why did Customs get excited about the cotton?

Good luck.