Collection of Knife Articles

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Choose the Perfect Survival Knife : (by Creek Stewart)

# The 6 important features :--

• Size (overall ideal is 9"-11"; blade of 5")
• Fixed blade 
• Full tang
• Sharp pointed tip
• Single-edged blade with flat ground spine
• Solid pommel

Knife for the Outdoorsman : [Bushcraft Illustrated book, 2019 by Dave Canturbury]

# Best Belt-knife :--

Blade (4"-5"), full tang, carbon-steel blade

# The 5 main tasks accomplished :--

Creating fire by materials, starting a fire, cutting saplings, felling a tree, creating notches.

Combat Use of Double-edged Fighting Knife : (by Col. Rex Applegate, 1993)

# The knife :--

Overall length of 10"-11" (blade 5"-7"), double-edged, sharp point, tempered-steel, weight of 1/2 to 3/4 pounds.

# The 3 holding grips :--

Ice-pick, hammer grip, razor grip.

# Knife manipulations :--

I) Slash targets - Face, neck, hands, legs, inside of wrists, back of hands.

II) Thrust targets - Throat, trunk, belly, groin, heart.

# Tactics :--

• Always use surprise in your attacks.
• Many times a yell accompanied by a surprise attack destroys enemy's mental balance
• Use your free hand to create movement, diverting enemy's eyes from knife hand.
• Coupled with feints by free hand, constantly make continuous false moves with knife-hand.
• Disabling slashes to wrists, biceps etc

# Vulnerable points :--

Head and neck area, torso, limbs

Some Military Daggers and Knives :

I) Fairbairn-Sykes dagger (1941) - blade length 7"

II) V-42 stiletto (1942) - blade length 7.2"

III) M3 Trench knife (1943) - blade length 6.75"

IV) NRS-2 Survival knife gun of Soviet Union :-- (1986)

• Blade length 7"
• Range 25 meters 
• It has knife blade & saw; sheath has wire-cutter, flathead screwdriver

V) NR-2 knife (blade length 5")

VI) Seitengewehr-42 knife of Germany :-- (1942)

• Blade length 7"
• Knife has detachable toolkit in handle having screwdriver, knife, awl, corkscrew.
• Protective bracket of handle served as a cartridge-case extractor.

#  A saw-blade version of X-Acto penknife was discovered in a Canadian prison in Manitoba (1970s).
 (FINGERTIP, FIREPOWER book by John Minnery) [1990] [Pg #12]

# Apache revolver (1860; 0.27 cal; blade L - 1.15")

Some Lesser Known Pen Knives :

• Philippines "Secret Agent" co. pen-knife [1960s; L- 5"]
• X-Acto pen knife [1970s; L- 7"]
• "Guardfather Spike" pen knife [1980s; L- 6.25"]

Infantry Weapons : (WW-1) [1914-18]

M-1917 knife US (8.37")

Stiletto dagger UK (7.87")

M-1918 knife US (7.2")

Nail knife France (7")

Mark-I knife US (6.75")

Khanjar Ottoman (4")

Bayonet Daggers : (China)

AKM-II [Norinco] (6"), M1 Carbine (6.25"), Type-81 (6.62"), Type-87 (6.62"), AK-47 [Norinco] (7.87"), T65 blade (8.12"), Type-56 rifle (9.75")

Carpenter Knives : [TM 9-243; Pg #34-1-4]

Rubber-cutting, Saddler's knife, shop knife, pocketknife, draw-knife, putty knife

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