The kydex sheath is safe and with the older Carbon V model carryies and deploys nicely. The point really will pierce well without being ruined! It’s a tough knife. It will maintain enough sharpness though to be good enough. The edge can be brought to VERY sharp but like I said it won’t last. The knife is solid, strong and will do the job. I have pried open locked trunks and stuck/jammed doors, used it to climb and all the stuff I listed previously. Some corrosion resistance is nice and a good sheath, one that securely and safely holds the blade but at the same time makes deployment of the knife relatively easy.Įnter the Cold Steel Recon Tanto: Like I said, a lot of knives (I have over 200 knives) and I really thought this one was great. We need a handle with a good nonslip grip, a point capable of withstanding abuse and able to pierce hard stuff. I think a knife with a good utility edge and the ability to hold that edge will do just fine. Razor sharp? Well, it’s nice if it starts out that way but don’t expect it to last. Nevertheless, there may still be times you want to cut small bits of metal, so it needs to be hard steel and sharp. This has been designed to cut metal (unlike a knife) so does it with ease and, if used properly, much more safely. Really, if you are going to be cutting metal you should use something like a circular metal saw. So now that we’ve established what some of the things you probably will need a knife for, what qualities are we looking for? Prying and cutting metal will trash a junky blade fast. Last and certainly NOT least the killing and dissection of large, scary indigenous insects and most of all throwing at makeshift targets when you’re bored out of your mind. Most of them pretty mundane, opening ammo crates, cutting metal banding on gear or supplies, wires sealing ammo cans, MRE preparation is a big one, digging, pounding in tent steaks, stirring stews or flipping of meat while camping, fire poking, climbing up steep places with no foot or handholds, prying, opening stuck car doors and locked trunks, searches of possible enemy houses (more prying and cutting open mattress’s/furniture and so on), scraping large deposits of carbon off of filthy weapons, cutting gear off wounded/dead people so you can move them or get them loose from whatever they are hung up on.

So what kinds of field tasks might you need a knife for? On the modern battlefield or out hunting, camping or shooting? Well there are a million of them. A good knife needs to be up to field/utility tasks because that’s all you’re going to use it for. Now if you happen to be the 1 in 10million guy who does have to stick somebody then any old sharp object will do but safe to say that knife fighting does NOT need to be at the top of your worry list. No need to silence that sentry with a blade anymore. 0000001% who REALLY is a “commando super operator” guy then you already know your units TO&E includes suppressed weapons. So in that amount of time, hundreds of thousands of troops came and went and untold numbers of patrols and combat action with no knifings anybody knows about. The news came second hand from a buddy and seeing how the knifer is in prison for it and the knifee was an Iraqi soldier who was supposed to be on our side (but probably wasn’t) that sounded more like a murder and less like a combat situation the way I heard the story from a buddy who was there. The days of fixing bayonets against the enemy are over. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STAB ANYONE!! It’s just not going to happen, sorry. I’ve got bad news for a lot of “commando super operator” types out there. First of all let’s discuss the uses of a knife as it will lead into why I like this model from Cold Steel as much as I do.

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