I thought this might be of interest.
I have a shooting bud, who is a real American hero. And he has a couple of interesting knives.
My bud, Danny was 101 Airborne before being Special Forces in Vietnam. I recently had a chance to take a picture of his knives.
The first is this special knife. Let me call it a “SOG”. I don’t know if that is the correct name. He received this in the period Oct 1964 to Dec 65, which was his first of three tours. This is his second SOG. He carried his first SOG on patrol, till one day, the tip broke off chopping bamboo. He received a replacement, but never had much faith in it after the problems with the first. Danny pointed out that there are absolutely no country of origin or manufacturer’s markings. This is no accident.
I weighed the knife on a postal scale, it weighs 12.2 ounces. The leather flap covering the stone broke off and is lost.
While the first knife has the collector value, and probably is being replicated today, I found Danny’s choice of carry knife to be interesting.
The knife he carried most of the time in Vietnam is this thin, light, commercial knife, made by Kbar.
The pommel has fallen off.
Danny carried this is because it is light, and it perfectly cut the bread in the C ration can.
I find Danny's choice of carry to be an interesting contrast to those who think a combat knife needs to be the equivalent of a Roman Short sword.
Danny mentioned that there were a lot of Randalls on the webbing of infantry officers, the classic K-Bar was very common and liked. And that entrenching tools were used, but not always for digging.
I have a shooting bud, who is a real American hero. And he has a couple of interesting knives.
My bud, Danny was 101 Airborne before being Special Forces in Vietnam. I recently had a chance to take a picture of his knives.
The first is this special knife. Let me call it a “SOG”. I don’t know if that is the correct name. He received this in the period Oct 1964 to Dec 65, which was his first of three tours. This is his second SOG. He carried his first SOG on patrol, till one day, the tip broke off chopping bamboo. He received a replacement, but never had much faith in it after the problems with the first. Danny pointed out that there are absolutely no country of origin or manufacturer’s markings. This is no accident.
I weighed the knife on a postal scale, it weighs 12.2 ounces. The leather flap covering the stone broke off and is lost.
While the first knife has the collector value, and probably is being replicated today, I found Danny’s choice of carry knife to be interesting.
The knife he carried most of the time in Vietnam is this thin, light, commercial knife, made by Kbar.
The pommel has fallen off.
Danny carried this is because it is light, and it perfectly cut the bread in the C ration can.
I find Danny's choice of carry to be an interesting contrast to those who think a combat knife needs to be the equivalent of a Roman Short sword.
Danny mentioned that there were a lot of Randalls on the webbing of infantry officers, the classic K-Bar was very common and liked. And that entrenching tools were used, but not always for digging.
