Another thought on "good" modern combat knives;
Do we still use knives in modern combat?
If I'm going to get close enough to my enemy that I could use a knife, I'm going to want a bigger knife.
Call it the "Rambo Effect" or the "Mick Dundee Principle"
but
if I can't do an Indiana Jones on their ass then I want mine to be bigger than theirs.
 
Girl in photo is 6'4" tall.  

Quote from Little on May 29^th, 2012, 4:37pm:

 
Copy that, Little.
Machetes are for living brush, not hard chopping.
For chopping, even a small hatchet is better than a machete but one does what one must do.
Cold Steel should replace yours. I would If I had made it.
 

Yeah, most of their machetes aren't anything extrodinary. If you want to stop the handle rattleing, insert some e-poxy or cold weld into the handle. I'v had to do it once because I way over abused one of my CS knives.
 
Chuck rocks, the best combat knife is the one you have with you. I've read some post from military on the CS forum and they say how something between a kukri and a large bowie knife is best for fighting, but it's more likely you'll have a medium sized fixed blade and a tactical folder. Or even just a folder for that matter. In Cold Steel's Solid Proof, they have a soldier give a testimony as to how the CS Hamato (small tactical folder) saved his life in the middle east and that he actually used it to take a guy out. Does this happen often? I doubt it. But it's a good thing to keep in mind.

 I think it's a good idea to have a knife just in case. Under normal circumstanses, I can either talk my way out of it or defend myself with my hands. However in the case that a naked pcp junkie is attempting to eat my face, I'd like to have my knife with me. I've also read a lot of knife SD stories, and in every one, as soon as the defendant pulled out the knife, the assailent ran away. Attackers are looking for victimes, not for people with large knives and that know how to use it. Plus I can use it as a tool most of the time.
 
If I go to a bad part of town, I will bring my knife, not with the intention of being in a 'duel' but just to convince them I am not a victim (I normally don't look 'victimy' anyway but just in case someone needs more convincing). A bad car accident can do almost all the things that you listed for the knife fight too, I know the risk, but it's still better than the other guy (say a child mollester or a rapist) having a knife and me not having one.  
 
It's better to have it and not need it, than to really need it and not have it.
 
 
Sorry for the rant, I stand strong by carrying a knife for possible SD. And if you go to the Cold Steel forum, you'll find dozens of guys clothed and in their right mind, that will carry a blade for self defence.

Sometimes you just have to bring a stick.

@ johnny108
Welcome home, brother.
 
Call on me if you ever want to swap stories or count scars.
 
Tom, USN, Nam vet, 2 tours