
Full flat ground version of the Kabar Fighting knife. The KaBar (or USMC Combat) fixed blade has proven to be a tough survival knife in my testing, showing agility in most tasks (except hacking performance). It has an excellent grip, hammer pommel, proven 1095 carbon steel, and the newer versions like the Next Gen and Utlitiy knives (shown) have the excellent KaBar plastic sheath. Enter a newer version of this combat-proven classic, the Cold Steel Leatherneck. It many ways it reminds me of a thinner Cold Steel Recon Scout, a production reference standard for heavy duty quarter inch thick wilderness knife. The Leatherneck has a perfect full flat ground blade in SK-5 steel which performed in excellent fashion in spittling and batoning (shown). At 11.4 oz without the sheath, this FFG Leatherneck version inherits the combat capabilities of the old sage Kabar. The Bowie clip blade pierce cuts, slashes, and slices with adeptness like all good Bowie blades. The knife comes out of box extremely sharp and it wilderness firecrafting over two days, the SK-5 steel still shows an edge. Besides the beautifully clean and easy to sharpen grind, the Leatherneck also upgrades the original design with a thicker guard angled forward, a cast steel butt cap, a more aggressive grip, and a much thicker full tang. The Secure-Ex plastic sheath is outstanding since its light, impervious to water soaking (except strapping), and the blade's guard snaps into it VERY securely. Other than MOLLE <b>...</b>
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