Comments on: 10 Best KA-BAR Knives

By: Brielle Will

Brielle Will — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:16:02 +0000

I tried to pinch it but got peanut all over it.

By: Geraldine King

Geraldine King — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:32:00 +0000

one of my hobbies is baking. and when i’m baking this works great.

By: The Toe

The Toe — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:24:56 +0000

In reply to Larry Gauthier. Thank you, Larry. Semper Fi.

By: Richard Hooper

Richard Hooper — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:44:59 +0000

I just got my dads old military knife from his days in the signals corp yesterday from my mom, but I cannot place era. It has the ox blood leather sheath with the slmost black leather wrap handle and plain steel oval pommel. Guard is that of the ww2 era knives and it has a red band just below the guard. Can anyone identify era and manufacturer, as far as I know the canadian forces in the cold war era used a different knife. Yet this was my dads old service knife. Can anyone help?

By: solar

solar — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:02:02 +0000

Thanks for this excellent post. It was very insightful and useful.

By: Pcbèze

Pcbèze — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:01:32 +0000

In reply to Larry Gauthier. I have quite a few ka-bar knives.. Solid and dependable.

By: Sgtrito

Sgtrito — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:59:16 +0000

My favorite is the dogs head! A little more modern look on an old army favorite. I know all the marine folklore, but I used my first Kabar in the U.S. Army. Battle tested for decades all around the world. In cold weather environments, Alaska Bosnia etc., we would break blades due to extreme cold. A knife reacts differently let’s say at -40F than it does at 40F. Kabar was known for its dependability.

By: tirod

tirod — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:40:29 +0000

The basic Kabar is descended from a Marbles camp knife, the Ideal, with a lot of Bowie self defense mixed in. They are a compromise of fighting knife and utility knife, which then raises the question, which job does it do the best? The answer is neither. Like a multitool, the better pliers, or sawback, or file, or phillips or socket driver is the individual one.

Considering Army had a different knife as issue, the Quartermaster for lack of a better description, and both were used doing the exact same jobs, it goes to how good could the design of the Kabar be when another knife so different was just as good.

Hype gets involved at that point, ego’s engaged, and genuflection toward traditions, which is often doing something that no longer has any real value except ceremonial. Color guards don’t carry loaded weapons now – on the battlefield that flag had to stay up for commanders and the soldiers to see to navigate chaos. Now it’s just a ceremony for the start of a toned down sports game.

And ownership of some knives is no more than that. I’ve used a Kabar variant dressing out a deer, but flipping it over to cut the hide from inside won’t work – tip points the wrong way, sharpened clip cuts the stomach and the contents spoil the meat. A better knife for that job exists – and it proves how combat oriented it is, not utility. Removing field dressings like that won’t be so great either, and right side up the belly is scoring everything underneath.

That’s why more than a few European countries with even longer histories of field use in their Army prefer a spear point survival knife and issue it. The main blade of a Swiss Army knife is typical – a utility shape, not combat shape.

Don’t let the influencers pump up the qualities of disparate designs for the same job – a knife is defined by it’s features which are required of it’s task, not popularity or how cool it is.

By: Wessel

Wessel — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:14:06 +0000

I think the new BK72 should be in the last as well!

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 22:03:42 +0000

In reply to Tom. So which one you think is best of them, please reply because i am planing to get one for myself Many Thanks ??