From: deowll@gmail.com   
      
   "Del Cecchi"  wrote in message   
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   >> "the wharf rat"  wrote in message   
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   >>> deowll  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>If you aren't in a combat zone looking at a dadley or any green river   
   >>>>knife   
   >>>>can be informative. These blades were actually used by mountain men to   
   >>>>survive in some pretty harsh conditions. The blades are thin and the   
   >>>>knife   
   >>>   
   >>> Yeah but can you open a 55 gallon drum with one? :-)   
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   >>   
   >> No and you can with a Ka-Bar. I didn't say these things didn't have a   
   >> place. You can smash a car window with the butt too or take a frame house   
   >> apart I have no doubt. If I were a cop or fireman I'd consider one or one   
   >> of their special tools that look like they could pop a door or window.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Like I said I think the wide bladed one is adequate based on personal   
   >> experience for some light wood modification for all those people who   
   >> don't feel at home with a hatchet or hawk and that's most people in the   
   >> present.   
   >>   
   >> Okay it's been raining for the last few days and I haven't had a chance   
   >> to put the new blade (marine) through its paces yet so it might work out   
   >> okay for light wood working. It isn't going to be as good a chopper as   
   >> the wider blade. Anyone that wants to use the marine blade as their all   
   >> around knife is still going to get the job done. I'd put money on it.   
   >> ?8^)   
   > It's been a long time since I had to open a 55 gallon drum out in the   
   > woods.  :-)  In my garage on the other hand I have an air chisel, and axe,   
   > and a chainsaw among other tools that might come in handy.   
   >   
   > When camping carry the proper tools for the situation.  A Kabar fighting   
   > knife will almost never be the right tool.  Even if you expect to be   
   > fighting a Glock is far superior.  Otherwise a saw, an axe, and a light   
   > utility knife will do the job.   
   >   
   > The kabar is superior as a phallic symbol however.   
   >   
   > del   
   >   
   You mean you don't play survialist? Oh pooh. How can you stand to miss out   
   on all the fun of trying to survive in the middle of a virgin wilderness all   
   alone with you and nothing but your knife in somebody's woodlot? You've   
   never felt the urge to dig through a concrete floor with your knife or stab   
   a care or baton a log? What do you do for fun?   
      
   It isn't a bad knife for camping or taking hunting. I'm sure that it would   
   dress a deer or do most chores just fine and never let you down but it is   
   costly, heavy and subject to rust.   
      
   I'm already on record as prefering green river or old hickory neither of   
   which costs more than half as much or weighs more than a fraction as much   
   and I do have a nice stainless cold steel Western Hunter with a nice sheath   
   that should work fine as well that is both much lighter and much cheaper. I   
   do think the 1246 ka-bar, which is discontinued I think, is a more logical   
   blade to play the survival game with because it can chop at least a tad and   
   it does work as a  knife. Taking it camping or on a canoe trip rather than a   
   knife and a hawk might not be insane.   
      
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