Finally got my knife back...

It's funny how things like that work. Long ago I wanted a knife to take overseas. It was unobtainable. So I made due with the issue one. It worked just fine and is the last one I'll ever get rid of. But something kept niggling at me over the decades so I finally just gave in and got one.

Mothers and knives.... Go figure!

Did she use one of the trite Mom-speak of;
"You can have one/this back when you;
A) know how to use it
B) know what can happen
C) understand how dangerous they can be."

Of course, all Mom's deftly ignore the irony of the conditions.

Todd.

I've been thinking about getting 'my' Ka-Bar back, too.
I found mine sticking out of a sandbox while waiting to walk my kid sister home after she started first grade.
I eventually broke the pommel off and wound up replacing the handle with a section of antler, then sold what was left at a swap meet.
Yeah, maybe it's time for another one.

Edit:
Maybe fortune agrees that I should get 'my' knife back.
As I was bringing in the trash cans here at the library I found three twenty dollar bills among the leaves that were killed by the recent frost.
That should cover it.

I just love finding things... .

It is a great feeling getting a knife back that was otherwise out of hand for awhile. I used one of my knives at work in a critical situation. It was confiscated as part of the FBI investigation and it took a full 2 years before I was able to get it back.

Can't bet the classics.
I was issued a Camilus version about 48 years ago.
Still have it.

High School 1978 principal took cheap pocket knife away from me, said it was a switchblade . Dad had to leave work and come to the school and wasn't happy, I found it with his pocket knives after he died 2004.

Love me some Ka-Bar

Ka Bars.... almost as tough as the marines that carried them

Classic knife!

My grandson has mine.

I thought I had lost my beloved Browning 3 blade hunting folder. Looked everywhere for two years and finally gave it up as officially lost.

Two weeks ago we had more of a snow than we'd had in years and I started up the snowblower and put on a set of heavy coveralls I pretty much only wear while snowblowing.

Or occasionally while hunting I guess, because there in a pocket was a lump which turned out to be the Browning in its leather belt sheath. Yes!!

theotherwaldo said:

I've been thinking about getting 'my' Ka-Bar back, too.
I found mine sticking out of a sandbox while waiting to walk my kid sister home after she started first grade.
I eventually broke the pommel off and wound up replacing the handle with a section of antler, then sold what was left at a swap meet.
Yeah, maybe it's time for another one.

Edit:
Maybe fortune agrees that I should get 'my' knife back.
As I was bringing in the trash cans here at the library I found three twenty dollar bills among the leaves that were killed by the recent frost.
That should cover it.

I just love finding things... .

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Me too. I shot a nice fat doe and after field dressing her I went to put my coat back on. I had hung it on a broken beach in a nearby pine and there stuck in the tree near my coat was a rusted kabar with the leather stack washers all chewed up. Who knows how long it was stuck in that tree. Took me a few minutes to get it out. I took it home cleaned it up ordered a new sheath and leather stack washers. Had to soak it a week in kroil oil before I could get the pommel off and install the washers. It sharpened up fine after a lot of polishing. My grandson really liked it so I gave it to him to field dress his first deer. It now belongs to someone who loves and appreciates it again.

-Found a decent replacement for 'my knife'.

I have two Ka-Bars: one's a version made by Ontario Knives and the other is a re-issue model built by Ka-Bar. The Ontario knife is in my backpack for when we go camping as it's a good, solid, dependable knife that is impervious to the elements. The "official" Ka-Bar stays at home with the rest of my knives.

Just before my kids went to Iraq in 2003, gawd was it really that long ago, I happened to see the issue knife supplied to my youngest. It was a K-Bar. It was also totally trashed. Remembering that I had wanted something special, and couldn't get it when I went to SEA I decided to get them better knives. Kids now carry even more weight that I did. So I wanted something light. I ended up getting them Mission Knives MPK's Being Titanium they are both light and strong. The knives survived three deployments each.

I'm surprised you got it back at all!

herrwalther said:

It is a great feeling getting a knife back that was otherwise out of hand for awhile. I used one of my knives at work in a critical situation. It was confiscated as part of the FBI investigation and it took a full 2 years before I was able to get it back.

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I decided that the knife that I showed you in the above picture wasn't 'my knife'.
The smaller, thinner grip and the little five inch blade felt dainty in my big hands.

USMC Ka-Bars aren't supposed to be dainty.

So I picked up a new model 1217, just like the one shown by the OP.

Much better.

sparkyv said:

I'm surprised you got it back at all!

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Same here. It sits in my safe now instead of a brown paper evidence bag. It got a very thorough cleaning when I got it back.