I like KaBars..dont know that model…got a pic of it?

 

I would not carry sob. Gun or knife, if you fall it can injur your spine. And of course your choice, but I'd also look at the Greber Strongarm $99 or the Cold Steel boot dagger, (don't know price) both have horizontal sheaths. I carry the CS, but am looking at the Gerber.

 

This is the first version with no guard.

And the later version with a guard.

Blade is 6 3/4 inches and over two inches wide.

 

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This is the first version with no guard.

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And the later version with a guard.

Blade is 6 3/4 inches and over two inches wide.

I guess its about perceived/anticipated need…up to the person to decide his choices….thats a big-*** blade to be toting around edc but thats jmo🤔
Nice looking knife, dont get me wrong…Id carry a Gladius if I thought Id need it, but like Dundee said”..Thats a KNIFE”🙄😅

 

I like the Gerber strongarm, some of the guys had them issued in Iraq.

 

This is my current KaBar. Rescued from a antique store with the handle bent in a semicircle. The pommel was peened on instead of pinned, and the leather was dried out. Oddly enough the USMC stampings were mostly ground off on either side of the choil.i straightened the tang with a torch and light taps from a hammer, keeping the blade cold on ice water towels. Had to mill the shoulders square and drill the hole for the new end cap. I never liked the grooves in the handle so I left them out.

 

Looks similar to mine which I've had since Boy Scouts in 1965. Still got it, but not my favorite now.

 

This (the Kbar) looks like it might be a good skinner, for like a bear, or steer. Last time I (sorta) helped skin a cow was in Honduras in preparation for my wedding to my practice wife. They used a sawzall, machete and butcher knives. I don't think that's the right way, but it worked. My BIL bought a cow on the hoof, loaded it in a pickup, shot it with a .45 - it was a hellofa party! 🤣 🤣 🙄

Anyway, I carry the cold steel horizontally on my belt about 10 o'clock. Conceals under a loose t-shirt or fishing shirt just fine.

 

Wow!! A sawzall. I've never thought about using one in that manner. I bet it surely saves time.

 

I carry a Small Ezee Izula 2 IWB. I can tell you with a LOT experience pulling from the Ranger carry is easy, putting it back sucks. When I pull the Izula it is tricky putting it back in the holster, its all by feel & I am waiting to slice myself...I carry a bigger Esee molly strapped to my Body armor/Load carry vest. It's easy there, I can see what I'm doing. YMMV

 

Just a cheap knife…
I keep them in the cars for a watermelon knife.

https://www.bladehq.com/item--Remington-FAST-Fixed-Blade-Knife--27541

 

OK, went to House Of Blades in Lake Worth today, and they had one of the original versions that I was looking at in stock.

It fit my hand fantastic, and was balanced well, but the thing is HUGE. I have no idea what the intended use of this thing is.

I thought it would be the size of the Tom Brown Tracker, but it's about 50% bigger.

I'm trying to talk myself into buying this thing, it's just so bloody BIG (that's what she said).

 

I like the updated KA Bar, by Spartan Blades.

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The whole reason for this blade being considered at all, is that I have a thing for vintage schrade knives (I'm going somewhere with this) and I just ordered a 1983 date coded 171UH. I like the 171 because it was my dad's knife in the deer woods. I just wanted something in the short, wide, well made category that I could use in the woods without possibly ruining a classic knife. The idea of batonning a 171 gives me the screaming Heebie-jeebies.

The idea of Ranger carry was just a whole, "gee that's cool" kinda thing until I saw how massive the damn thing was.

 

I was in the Army so I'm forbidden by law, regulation and personal taste from buying a Ka Bar. I do however, have a set of Ka Bar chop sticks. Go figure. Living in suburbia, nor much need for carrying a knife but I do carry a compact 45. If I'm out in BLM land doing some shooting or whatever I'll bring along a Buck Master or pilots survival knife.

 

I was in the Army, but I carried a Gerber pig sticker. And a Buck Knife. It's not that the Army wouldn't allow us to have Kbars - it's that they are too cheap to BUY them...

 

Oddly enough I'm wearing a pilot's survival knife right now. The WW2 type made by camillus in Utica NY.

Original sheath was a wreck so I had to make a new one. Same knife I did a thread on a while back.

 

Now, a straight spine drop point equivalent to that would be great .

 

I won a couple Ka-bars, Ka-bar is quality. If you're asking about one, the answer is "yes!".

 

This thread made me get out my old military knife. I don't know much about it except its cool. It say USN MARK II on one side and the other side says ROBSON Shuredge. I got it in a bunch of knives after my dad passed away. The sheath has a fiberglass body.