Recently I got my Currahee from Microtech. That's quite a piece of knife, but... I'm wondering if it's really so brilliant as a combat / SF tool. I mean... it is really strong knife. VERY strong! 0.200" of D2 can take hell of a load, that's for sure. High grind cuts very good, G10 handle is very comfortable and big enough to let me use the knife also in heavy duty gloves on. BUT as good as it is, the Currahee is rather great outdoor utility knife than combat machine. First of all with such a high profile it'd be much harder to hit & puncture an oponent in the combat situ than with say Green Beret. Also the blade of roughly 4.5" is not as long as in most of SF knives. So please, tell me... what are your thoughts about Currahee? Personally I like it alot, but again, for me it's great outdoor / utility knife... but OF COURSE I'm not SF Soldier so I may be wrong. Oh, this project probaby must have been created for "waterborn" operations, and maybe that's why it's shorter than what usually SF guys carry in the field. At least MT says:
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The Currahee is a full tang fixed blade originally designed for U.S. Special Forces Boat team 20. The original run of the CURRAHEE was limited, with the first few put in the hands of those best suited to test the knife, the United States Special Forces. Field use has proven that these knives can endure extremely high intensity, and adverse conditions.
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SF Boat Team 20... anyone here?
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