An orange handled kabar? You must mean the stacked leather some of them are almost orange. That's odd, my grandfather used one during the korean war in which he pried, cur, chopped, hacked, stabbed, and did God knows what else to it. He still has it and it still holds an edge. I have a kabar that I have pried, chopped, cut, used to break joints loose on deer, and hacked through ribs when cleaning deer and it still has and edge and hasn't bent, although I don't use it to clean chickens, just deer and wild game. I use (as I stated) one of the winchester knives from wal-mart to clean chickens.

Anyway.

Yes he took the knife back three times and each time they exchanged it for a new knife in the package. Each time he got it home he attempted to sharpen it using a very nice lansky set that he preferes (I prefere a aluminum oxide ceramic stick myself)The last time he got one that would actually hold an edge. All he needed was a knife to hold a decent edge for cutting packing straps where he worked because he kept snapping box cutter blades on the heavy nylon/plastic straps. He didn't want to spend more than about $10 because he didn't want something he was going to have to worry about losing, etc.

Want to talk about calling baloney?

GoodOlBoy

The Kabar with the orange grips was new and broke about 1954. It was a conventional sheath knife but smaller than average. It snapped off just where the blade beings near the handle.

From the knives that I have seen that could not be sharpened ?? it always seems that someone can do it.

Took it back three times??

this has been an interesting post, some good and somebad about all knives, that;s why there are so many different brands,thanks mike moss we would not got this far without you. keep posting

I suspect that Kabar was cracked and that's why it busted. I've had mine for 15 years and it's never failed me. I've used and abused it and never had a problem. If something ever happens to the one I have I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one. I got mine for $30 dollars and I think 15 years worth of faithful service is a pretty good deal. I have others that I carry but the Kabar is always in my pack as my "just in case" knife: the one I may have to depend on to get me out of a jam.

nice picture, what kind of gun is that? is that a winchester from walmart?

Mike, why is it so hard for you to believe he returned and exchanged the product to wal-mart three times before getting a good one? I have often had other products that had problems and wal-mart has always exchanged them, although the last couple of years they drag their feet more about it.

Nice deer btw. I am more curious as to what caliber that muzzloader of yours is. Sure is a beauty.

GoodOlBoy

Touche!

No it's a Kimber silly. :D

It's a Savage ML 10 shooting the 250 SST over AA 5744.

It gutted that tender buck so fast. All I need to do is get inside and I tear a lot of the stuff out with my hands.

That snow had a crust on it and by the time I got the deer out much of its hair was gone on one side.

I keep that knife here by the puter on a table with the coffee. I like it.

And that right there is what counts more than anything.

GoodOlBoy

amen,,,, at least we keep this post interesting