WireDog
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Dec 28, 2020 16:48:51 GMT -5
Post by WireDog on Dec 28, 2020 16:48:51 GMT -5
M7 Bayonet with scabbard by john fisher, on Flickr I just got this US Army Issue M7 bayonet, like the ones I was issued in the Army. I always thought it was rather ungainly, like too thin. This model was in use throughout the Vietnam War into the 1980s. Then it was replaced by a much more elegant bayonet that looked more like a Rambo Knife. Years later I realized that this no-nonsense version was designed to get past the ribs and I got a new appreciation of the design. I've got quite a bayonet collection now. One of these days I'll build a nice display case and get a pic.
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Dec 30, 2020 1:38:16 GMT -5
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Post by rickyguitar on Dec 30, 2020 1:38:16 GMT -5
Yeah, looks pretty familiar. Nice. My personal fav is my Camillus pilots survival knife. Garage sale for $10.
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Dec 30, 2020 8:02:16 GMT -5
Post by HenryJ on Dec 30, 2020 8:02:16 GMT -5
Whew!! I thought you were getting a kidney transplant!
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Dec 30, 2020 8:30:47 GMT -5
Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Dec 30, 2020 8:30:47 GMT -5
Very nice! A cool feature about this bayonet is it will snap right onto the front of your Mossberg 590A1 hand-carried artillery. If you like that design as an all-around knife fo r shop work, camping, glove box utility tool, check out the Glock Field Knife. These are affordable and extremely rugged. Don't get the sawback version; a sawback is useless on a knife unless you're scaling a fish. Yeah, looks pretty familiar. Nice. My personal fav is my Camillus pilots survival knife. Garage sale for $10. The pilot knife is a good one; short and useful with a nice stacked leather handle. A really good feature is the steel cap on the leather scabbard. This was a post-Vietnam improvement designed to prevent the knife poking through the leather when the pilot lands in a heap on terra firma. Apparently a few guys that bailed out got poked by them. Most of these knives were part of the pilot's survival vest, with the scabbard sewn into the vest and carried near the sternum when worn. You can tell which ones were vest take-offs by the stitching holes with no thread around the perimeter of the leather scabbard. There are a whole lot of repros out there. The MC-1 parachute knife has an interesting history. They issued us these orange babies when I was a flyer in the AF. It's an automatc (switchblade) with a spring-extended straight blade and a hook blade on the opposite end designed to safely cut a parachute line-over when bailing out. This little hook is sharpened only on the inside, which means you can hook it over the offending line and pull the knife to cut the offending line. The straight blade is not a good choice for this job because the lines are all under tension and it's too easy to cut more than one line. Having the straight blade as the automatic one is a huge oversight. It would be better to have the hook as the 'switch' blade so it would be a one-hand operation while hanging from a parachute...you know, when your life depends on it. During the design phase, apparently nobody spoke with flyers that had ever bailed out and sustained hand/arm injuries upon egress from the jet. These are not very durable because (1) they're not intended for long-term use, and (2) they were made by the lowest bidders--Schrade and Camillus. Both companies do make good knives, but this is not one of those.
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WireDog
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Dec 30, 2020 8:39:17 GMT -5
Post by WireDog on Dec 30, 2020 8:39:17 GMT -5
Henry, you have psychic powers! I actually might have to swap them out one day, but for now they're fine where they are!
Ricky, I also have a Camillus pilot's survival knife. When I was in the 101st Airborne Division, my helicopter unit deployed to Honduras and every one of us got issued one. I "appropriated" mine and carried it on Field Training Exercises and to Desert Shield and Iraq. It's quite different from a fighting knife, though. That is something it took years for me to realize. The saw-back on the blade is for sawing wood for fire-wood. It actually would get stuck on clothes and bone in a real fight.
...So I was told by a serious infantry veteran who knows of what he speaks. And it makes sense.
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Dec 30, 2020 8:49:16 GMT -5
Post by WireDog on Dec 30, 2020 8:49:16 GMT -5
Pilot survival knife by john fisher, on Flickr Peegoo, "...scaling fish..."! Love it! This knife was with me for years and years. It has been invaluable in the field.
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